LABESSE, E.-D. and H. PIERRET.   PROMENADES BOTANIQUES DE TOUS LES MOIS   Ouvrage adopté par la Ville de Paris et par le Ministere de l'Instruction publique.       Paris: Librairie Ducrocq, n.d. ca.   1885.          With 100 drawings by Clair Guyot, Ch. Gosselin, L. Mouchat, and Sellier and engravings by F. Méaulle. This educational narrative centers around children studying botany under the tutelage of a charming elderly lady who brings them out into the fields and woods equipped with vascula, plant presses and specimen paper. They begin their excursions in January and the text proceeds from month to month with one botanical lesson after another. By November they are examining Lamark's floral calendar for the Parisian climate as well as the dial or "horloge de Flore." Herbaria are formed along the way. Although this is a relatively scarce book, with only one copy listed in OCLC and two in CCFR, this would appear to be a modified edition (copies in OCLC and CCF specify the date 1885 and give 271 pages) adopted for use in schools. The upper cover of the book is embossed with the insignia of the city of Paris and the words "Ecole Municipale Colbert" are printed in gilt.   Small 4to (22.5 x 18 cm); (iv) + wood-engraved frontispiece + 243 pp. with 100 engraved designs, including full page plates, as text illustrations.            Original cloth, spine slightly faded, with gilt lettering and heraldic device in gilt on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. $125.00

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