Engraved title page included in plates; 120 numbered engravings of flowers and fruits, with insects, animals and birds; No text. Early issue before text. Believed to be first printing of the plates and the earliest flower engravings by de Passe,...
Remainder of title page: "...par Botiau, Claude, Courson, Fontaine, Gizant, Gallet, Guichard, La Selve, Lambert, Madoulet et Redouté..." "Il paraîtra un Cahier tous les mois." Contains Cahiers 7 to 12 bound together
Thin-paper tracings. Page mounted on both sides of leaves. Some tracings. Pages are numbered 224-358, but numbers do not appear sequentially on every page. Page laid in;Pencil note on inside of front cover: tracings of over 400 designs. Circa 1880....
Weaving; Weaving -- Patterns --Early works to 1800; Weaving -- Germany -- Early works to 1800; Dyes and dyeing -- Early works to 1800; Textile design
Titles printed in red and black; [5] p. handwritten at end. Also hand-drawn designs, part col.; (Dates vary) 1. Th., 1736.--Anderer Th., 1737.--3. Th., 1727.--4. Th., 1735; On spine: Weber- Kunst- und Bild-Buch, 1736; In slip-case
