Histoire des champignons de la France : ou, traité élémentaire renfermant dans un ordre méthodique les descriptions et les figures des champignons qui croissent naturellement en France / par M. Bulliard.
Publication details: Paris : Chez l'auteur, Barrois le jeune, Belin, Croullebois, Bazan, Leblanc, 1791-812 Description: 2 volumes (xvi, [x], 368 p., [177] leaves of plates; p.369-700, [112] leaves of plates) : illustrations (mainly coloured)Other title: Herbier de la France : seconde divisionSubject(s): Botany -- France -- 18th century | Mushrooms -- France -- 18th century | Medicinal Plants -- France -- 18th century | Pharmacognosy -- France -- 18th century | Botanical Illustration -- France -- 18th centurySummary: The Histoire des champignons de la France is a major mycological work, produced by the French botanist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1752-1793). It is part of a larger work undertaken by Bulliard, L'Herbier de France, which details the properties and medicinal uses of "native plants" from France. Of this ambitious work only two parts finally saw the light of day: Histoire des plantes vénéneuses et suspectes de la France published in 1784, and Histoire des champignons de la France; ou, traité élémentaire renfermant dans un ordre méthodique les descriptions et les figures des champignons qui croissent naturellement en France, the publication of which began in 1791 and was completed in 1809 by Étienne-Pierre Ventenat. In his Herbier de la France, one of the earliest examples of true colour printing, Bulliard drew, engraved, mixed the inks, and colour-printed more than 600 plates of flowers and fungi growing in France (and of which 382 are of fungi). Bulliard line-etched the outlines, veins, and linear shading in black for each plate. He then superimposed three tint plates, each engraved with the individual tones necessary to print separately the green, red and yellow of each image. His accuracy in lining up the plates and the delicacy and accuracy of his colour printing, make this an outstanding example of eighteenth century botanical illustration.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Vol. 1, at foot of title: Cet ouvrage ayant pour but de faciliter l'étude des Champignons, et de diriger cette étude vers l'utilité, on y trouvera le détail très-circonstancié des caractères qui distinguent les espèces, le rapprochement analytique de ces mêmes espèces, pour peu qu'elles aient de rapport ou de ressemblance avec d 'autres, et la citation des auteurs qui en ont donné des figures; on y a joint aussi un très-grand nombre d'observations microscopiques sur les organes de la fructification de ces végétaux , comparés à ceux des plantes staminifères , et l'indication précise de l'usage qu'on a fait jusqu'ici des Champignons, comme médicament, comme aliment, etc.
Ce premier volume, broché en carton, avec 8 planches, dont 5 sont coloriées au moyen de l'impression , se vend 15 livres. Avec les 177 planches, dont il renferme les descriptions. 186.
Vol. 1: Plates include 173 colour plates from the author's "Herbier de la France" plus four additional plates, all bound in with the text to which they relate.
Vol. 2: plate 420 misbound in place of plate 561, facing p. 429; remainder bound in with text to which they relate.
Vol. 1: Colophon: De l'Imprimerie de la Société Typographique, rue et Collége des Cholets, près celle Saint-Jacques.
Vol. 2 (Tome second, IIme partie) authored by Bulliard et Ventenat, and published by Leblanc, Paris, in 1812.
Vol. 2: Half t.p. verso : "Ce volume continient les pages 541 à 700 du texte, avec 112 figures coloriées.
The Histoire des champignons de la France is a major mycological work, produced by the French botanist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1752-1793). It is part of a larger work undertaken by Bulliard, L'Herbier de France, which details the properties and medicinal uses of "native plants" from France. Of this ambitious work only two parts finally saw the light of day: Histoire des plantes vénéneuses et suspectes de la France published in 1784, and Histoire des champignons de la France; ou, traité élémentaire renfermant dans un ordre méthodique les descriptions et les figures des champignons qui croissent naturellement en France, the publication of which began in 1791 and was completed in 1809 by Étienne-Pierre Ventenat. In his Herbier de la France, one of the earliest examples of true colour printing, Bulliard drew, engraved, mixed the inks, and colour-printed more than 600 plates of flowers and fungi growing in France (and of which 382 are of fungi). Bulliard line-etched the outlines, veins, and linear shading in black for each plate. He then superimposed three tint plates, each engraved with the individual tones necessary to print separately the green, red and yellow of each image. His accuracy in lining up the plates and the delicacy and accuracy of his colour printing, make this an outstanding example of eighteenth century botanical illustration.
Vol. 1 lacking half t.p., but pencil annotation on leaf facing t.p.: "Herbier de la France. IIe division : Histoire des champignons de la France. Tome I, part 1 pages 1-232, part 2 pages 233-368."
Vol. 2, pencil annotation on leaf facing half t.p.: "Note. This volume contains (1) Title page of part 2 (2) part 1 pages 369-540 (3) part 2 pages 541-684, pages 685 to 700 missing (contain Index of plates). Many plates are also apparently missing". Manuscript list of plate nos. included in Bulliard's Histoire des Champignons loosely inserted in front of volume 1, including note relating to Tome I "Total here 167. Total mentioned on Title page 177", and note relating to Tome II "Total here 114. Total on verso of 1/2 title-p. 112 fig. col." Vol. 1 lacking Observations Microscopiques, Planche I and Planche II, and plates 396, 499, 501-504.
Vol. 2: Half title and title page for Tome second, IIme partie misbound at front of volume before p. 369 instead of before p. 541. Previous Accession Numbers: AECJ, 718-719. Previous Classmark: 582.8:914.4. Previous location: Basement Store Shelf 28.5.