> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 616](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120747) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/17907-1) LSID 17907-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340280) QID Q1340280 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Delile (also Raffeneau Delile), Alire (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Delile, Alire (Raffeneau) (1778-1850), French botanist and physician who accompanied Napoleon to Egypt and who travelled in North Carolina; professor of botany at Montpellier 1819-1850. **Abbreviated name**: *Delile* \[standard form in IPNI: *Delile*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MPU|MPU]], duplicates e.g. in herb. Willdenow ([[Collection B|B]]), [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection W|W]]. – The original drawings for the Description de l'Égypte are at the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. – Delile's heavily annotated copy of Michaux's *Flora boreali-americana* (he planned a revision) is at [[Collection MPU|MPU]] together with water-colour drawings of 332 species of fungi. *Ref*.: IH 2: 157. - Granel de Solignac et Bertrand, Naturalia monspeliensia, bot., 18: 281-282. 1967. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 372-373, 5(1): 196; Barnhart 1: 438; BM 4: 1638-1639, 8: 1044; Bossert p. 98; Frank 3(Anh): 23; Jackson p. 538 \[index\]; LS 6844; MW p. 94; Plesch p. 195; PR 2129-2140. - Anon., Flora 33: 704. 1850. - Martins, Le jardin des plantes de Montpellier 41, 55-58, 61, 72-73. 86. 1854. - Joly, Mém. Acad. Sci. Toulouse ser. 5. 3: 93-98. 1859. - Barnhart, Mem. Torrey Bot. Cl. 16: 292. 1921. - Motte, *in* Les botanistes français en Amérique du Nord 53-82. 1957. - Motte, Science et Nature 18: 9-15. 1957. - Motte, DSB 4: 21-22. 1971 (bibl.) - Stafleu, Regn. veg. 71: 307, 338. 1971. #### Composite works see F. Cailliaud, *Voyage à Méroé*, 4: \[293\]-399 for Delile, Centurie des plantes d'Afrique. #### Eponymy *Delilia* K. P. J. Sprengel (1823); *Lilaea* Humboldt & Bonpland (1808); *Raffenaldia* Godron (1853). #### Handwriting Candollea 29: 233-234. 1974. ### Publications ##### n.1353. Description de l'Égypte **Title** *Description de l'Égypte*, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand. *Histoire naturelle. Tom. second.* Paris (Imprimerie impériale) 1812. Fol (2 fol./sign.) **Abbreviated title**: *Descr. Egypte, Hist. nat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: first fascicle (p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-144): 1813; second fascicle (troisième livr.) (p. 145-462) 1813 sero – 1814 prim. – Contains four memoirs by Delile of which the first on p. \[1\]-10, the second on p. \[11\]-24, the third on p. \[49\]-82 entitled *Florae aegyptiacae illustratio*, and the fourth on p. \[i\], \[145\]-320, the *Flore d'Égypte, with explication des planches* (*pl. 1-62*). *Copies*: BR, MO. According to Baring the plates themselves came out only in 1826; the plates 1-62 are copper engravings of drawings by H. J. Redouté and Conté (originals in Paris at Muséum d'Hist. nat.). Plates numbered 63 and 64 featuring some new names occur in several copies. These new names are not validly published because there is neither an accompanying description nor an analysis showing essential characters. It is furthermore questionable (Barbey 1882; also fide H. Heine, in lit.) whether these plates were ever effectively distributed. They are not found in any of the copies in the main libraries at Paris, but mostly in copies which belonged to correspondents of Delile and it is likely that they were simply proofsheets. Hackel mentions the presence of the two plates in copies at 'Paris' and at the Jardin botanique de Montpellier. The contemporary bibliographies do not mention these two plates. The plates also occur in the Stockholm copy used for the IDC microfiche edition. The memoirs were also published separately; a second edition of the Flore d'Égypte was published in 1824. – The entire "tome second" was published between 1813 and 1829, though it carries the date 1812. *Ref*.: BM 2: 606-607, NI 2234, PR 2129-2130, RS p. 80, SY 44, IDC 78. - Baring, A bibliographical account and collation of La description de l'Égypte. - London 1838. - Barbey, Herborisations au Levant, Lausanne 1882, p. 175-176. - Hackel, Sitzungsber. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 22: 109. ##### n.1354. Flore de l'Arabie pétrée **Title** *Flore de l'Arabie pétrée*. Plantes recueillies par M. Léon de Laborde, nommées, classées, et décrites par M. Delile... *in* Léon de Laborde et Linant, *Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée*. Paris 1830. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Arabie pétrée*. **Notes** *Publ*.: on p. 81-87, with *one plate*, 1830. – Reprinted as Fragments d'une Flore de l'Arabie pétrée... 1833. Qu. 26 p., *1 plate*. *Ref*.: BM 4: 1638 (1833 reprint), Jackson p. 379, PR 2135 (1833 reprint). ##### n.1355. Fragments d'une flore de l'Arabie pétrée **Title** *Fragments d'une flore de l'Arabie pétrée*. Plantes recueillies par M. Léon de Laborde, nommées, classées et décrites par M. Delile,... (extrait du Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée par M. Léon de Laborde). Paris (Giard) 1833. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fragm. fl. Arabie pétrée*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1833 (BF 18 Jan 1834), p. \[i, t.p. as cover\], \[1\]-25, \[26, ind.\], 1 plain lith. by P. Duménil. *Copies*: G, HH. – Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph, marquess, de Laborde (1807-1869), travelled in the Orient in 1825, published *Voyage dans l'Arabie pétrée*, Paris 1830-1833 (see Embacher p. 179-180), of which the present text is an "extrait" (reprint). The original text, in folio, appeared in 1830, p. 81-87 (fide PR). ##### n.1356. Voyage en Abyssinie **Title** *Voyage en Abyssinie*, dans les provinces du Tigré, du Samen et de 1'Amhara par MM. Ferret et Galinier. Paris (Paulin). Oct. Vol. 3, part 2, 1847, p. 85-163 Oct.\]. \[Plantae, Mammalia, Aves\], with Énumération des plantes... par M. Raffeneau-Delile. **Abbreviated title**: *Voy. Abyssinie*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Text-part containing botany: 1848. The accompanying atlas was probably also published in parts between 1847 and 1848. *Copies*: G, MO. – Entire volume publ. 1847-1848, p. \[i\], \[iii\], \[1\]-536. Atlas, Paris (Paulin) 1847-1848, Botanique *pl. 1-17*, uncoloured copper engravings (artists Delile, Lebrun). *Ref*.: PR 2879.