REDOUTÉ (Pierre-Joseph). The Roses painted by P. J. Redouté draftsman of the class of physics of the Institute and the museum of natural history... described by C. A. Thorry. Paris : C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1824 [-1827]. - 40 issues in one volume in-8, 235 x 165 : (2 ff.), 4 pp., (4, 4, 6, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 6, 5, 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 4, 6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 7, 5, 4, 4, 6, 5, 4, 5 ff.), 160 plates. Half red long-grained morocco with small corners, spine ribbed and decorated, speckled edges (P. Lemaire). Second edition, the first in-8, of the famous roses of Redouté. It is illustrated with one hundred and sixty superb color plates. It was published immediately after the original in-folio and appeared in forty issues from January 10th 1824 to December 27th 1826. Only the twenty-third issue, which should have been distributed in December 1825, was not published until January 31, 1827. Each issue, printed on wove paper, included four to seven leaves as well as four plates which are the reproduction of the engravings in folio, engraved here again and colored under Redouté's eyes. The text leaves contain the descriptions of Claude-Antoine Thory (1757-1827). A fine copy in a contemporary binding signed by P. Lemaire, complete with text leaves and plates. Hinge of the second board split at the height of the first two boxes. Scattered foxing. Issues 24 and 25 have been interchanged.