Charton, Jacques. Collection de plantes étrangères en fleurs, fruits, corail et coquillages. With engraved title and 30 (of 60) coloured copper engravings. 43 x 30 cm. Broschur d. Z. (strongly loaded, dissolved from the block, with numerous flaws) with mounted coloured paper. Paris, Mondhard et Jean, 1784. Jacques Charton's filigree coloured and sometimes fantastic panels show plants and flowers partly with animals and humans. For example, "Plante Maritime", "Plante du Perou", "Acorus verus", " Plantes des Indes", "plantes des isles de Mascaregne", "Ipecacuanha", "plantes de l'Amerique", "Colloquinte et Champignon du Levant", "Ananas des Indes Orientales", "plane de Cardamome et le Soldat", "Fruit de Cayenne" etc. – lightly tanned due to paper, with cracks, cracks and kinks, partly with deposited margins as well as smaller flaws. Coloured in strong colors and decorative graphics. Very rare.