"The King's Garden" Book 1982 Duval, Marguerite

DUVAL, Marguerite [214] pp. University Press of Virginia 1982 10 1/4" x 7 1/4" First English language edition. First English translation of La Plantete des Fleurs, a history of the major European naturalists / explorers from the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, including Belon, Tournefort, Buffon, Michaux, and Humboldt.