An attractive and impressive botanical print by the husband and wife collaboration of Nicolas and Genevieve Regnault, from their work entitled 'La Botanique Mise a la portee de tout le monde ou Collection des Plantes D'Usage.'. The work illustrates both helpful (medicinal)and decorative plants. Blunt says "Perhaps the most impressive French botanical work of the period". Helleborus Niger is commonly called Christmas rose or black hellebore, it is an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. It is poisonous. Size: 460 x 35 mm. Copperplate engraving with original hand colour. Good condition.

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Title: Helleborus Niger.
Publisher: Paris: 1774

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