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> [!example] See also [[Alyon, Pierre Philippe (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Alyon, Pierre Philippe (1746-1816), French botanist and pharmacist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Alyon* \[standard form in IPNI: *Alyon*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 48; DU 7; HU 688; Jackson p. 34; NI 22; PR 122.
- Tucker, Cat. library Arnold Arb. 3: 20.
### Publications
##### n.109. Cours de botanique
**Title**
*Cours de botanique*, pour servir à l'éducation des enfans de S. A. Sérénissime Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, où l'on à \[sic\] rassemblé les plantes indigènes et exotiques employées dans les arts et dans la médecine. Paris \[1787-1788\]. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *Cours bot.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: In 7 parts (in NY copy numbered by hand nos. 1-7; HU: nos. 2-8), 1787-1788, engr. t.p., p. \[1\]-36, 103 handcoloured etchings occasionally shaded with mezzotint or roulette (DU); PR: "Opus pulchris, quam Jean Aubry sculpsit, tabulis splendidum, pluribus prodiit fasciculis, et fere semper incompletum offenditur". For a collation and commentary see HU 688. Possibly not finished until 1789.
|livr. |*plates* |
|--- |--- |
|2(Ime) |*1-15* |
|3(2°) |*16-29* |
|4(3°) |*30-44* |
|5(4°) |*45-59*|
|6(5°) |*60-73* (Plesch: 61*a*)|
|7(6°) |*74-87*|
|8(7°) |*89-103*|
The artist, Jean Aubry, also engraved some of the plates of Labillardière, *Icones plantarum Syriae rariorum*.
*Ref*.: BM; DU 7; GFB p. 47; HU 688; Jackson p. 34; NI 22; Plesch p. 126; PR 122.
- Bartlett, Fifty-five rare books 54-55. 1949.
- Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 10. 1975 (sold at £ 9200).