HETLEY, MME CH et RAOUL M.E.
Fleurs Sauvages et Boix Precieux de la Nouvelle-Zelande.
Ouvrage illustre a profusion de magnifiques planches en couleur representant 46 plantes en fleurs, presque toutes non figurees jusqu'a ce jour, plantes et fleurs dessinees et peintes d'apres nature [Wild Flowers and Valuable Timbers of New Zealand]. Published in London & Paris in 1889. [7] p.l., 39p, [1], 40 - 54, 37 colour plates. Folio 385mm, bound in blue beveled boards with decorative gilt titles and floral illustrations.
All edges gilt, some wear at edges and corners, short closed tear to two pages of text, no loss. contents crisp and clean.
The French edition is of considerable rarity, of fifty copies printed, only fifteen were for sale. Edouard Raoul was a nephew of Etienne Raoul (1815-52), he met Mrs Hetley when he visited New Zealand in 1886 and suggested the French edition. This edition contains an extra plate illustrating the large common vegetable sheep, Raoulia eximia. Raoulia, a member of the daisy family and was named after Etienne Raoul, which explains why it was included in the French edition. The plate was lithographed by A. Millot, Paris; the Leighton Brothers' lithographs were used for the other plates.