> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 131](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258609) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3033-1) LSID 3033-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5493154) QID Q5493154 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Garsault, François Alexandre Pierre de|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Garsault, François Alexandre \[Pierre\] de (1691/1693-1778), French writer, botanical artist and naturalist with interests in poisonous plants, also a leading French horse-breeder, entered royal administration and trained horses for the military as "Capitaine des Haras", Académie des sciences. **Abbreviated name**: *Garsault* \[standard form in IPNI: *Garsault*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 220; Baillon 2: 674 (d. "vers 1776"); BM 2: 642; DA 1967; DBF 15: 578-579 (b. "1693"); Hortus 3: 1193; HU 2(2): nr. 585; IF suppl. 4: 354; Langman p. 308-309; MW p. 135; NI 2: 65; Plesch p. 234; PR ed. 1: 3509, ed. 2: 3216; Rehder 5(index): 310; Sotheby 1: 228; TL-1: 165; TL-2/1: 918-919: Tucker 1: 270, 3: 116. #### Biofile - Brunet, J.-Ch., 1861 \[1966 reprint\]. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres 2: 1495-1496. - Davy de Virville, A., 1954. Hist. bot. France: 74, 103. - Engelmann, W., 1846. Biblioth. hist. nat.: 161, 168. - Gibson, J.A. & E.C. Nelson, 2001. Cumulative index Archives Nat. Hist.: 58. - Thellung, Alb., 1908. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 8: 713-714, 778-793, 901-913. (see also J. Bot. 47: 322. 1909) \["Nomenclator Garsaultianus"\] - Welter-Schultes, F.W. et al., 2008. Archives Nat. Hist. 35: 118-127. (b. 1891) #### Composite works Garsault contributed illus. to a number of other works on natural history, incl.: - (1) Labeyrie & Jean Goulin, *Dictionnaire raisonné universel* de *matière médicale*... Paris (F. Didot)... 1773. - (2) A. von Störck, *Expériences* et *observations* sur l'usage interne de la *pomme épineuse*... 1763, which is a transl. of *Libell. Stramonium*... 1762 (TL-2/6, nr. 13.158). In addition, after his death, his illus. were reused in, a.o.: - (3) *Dictionnaire* des *plantes usuelles*, des arbres et arbustes, des animaux qui servent d'alimens, de médicamens ou d'amusement à l'homme, et les minéraux qui sont d'usage en médecine; ouvrage mis à la portée de tout le monde; orné d'environ huit-cents planches... Par une société de gens de lettres, naturalistes et médecins... Paris (Lamy) An II \[1793-1794\], 8 vols. - (4) *Nouveau dictionnaire* d'*histoire naturelle* appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture et à l'économie rurale et domestique: par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirées des trois règnes de la nature... Paris (Deterville) 1803-1804, 24 vols. #### Note Three Garsault titles in TL-2/1 (nrs. 1959-1961), are listed in the Appendix V "Opera Utique Oppressa" of the 2006 Vienna *Code*. Names appearing in these works in the ranks specified at the end of each listing are not to be accepted as validly published. This list was first established by action of the Tokyo Congr. (1993) and first appeared in the 1994 Tokyo *Code*. - (1) Les *figures* de *plantes* et *animaux* d'*usage* en *médecine*, décrit\[s, although mis-corrected to décrit\[es\] in TL-2/1\] dans la matière médicale de Mr. Geoffroy (i.e. *Fig. pl. méd.*)... 1764, 5 vols. (TL-2/1, nr. 1959). \[Species and infraspecific taxa\]. The original entry in TL-2/1 can be amended as follows: *Copies*: NY, NYPL (n.v.), P (n.v.), WIS (n.v.). - (2) *Explication abrégée* de *sept cent*\["s"\] *dix-neuf plantes* (i.e. *Expl. abr. pl.*)... 1765 (TL-2/1, nr. 1960). \[Species and infraspecific taxa\]. - (3) *Description*, *vertus* et usages de sept cent\["s"\] dix-neuf *plantes*, tant étrangères que de nos climats (i.e. *Descr., vertus pl.*... \[1764\]-1767, 5 vols. (TL-2/1, nr. 1961). \[Genera, species and infraspecific taxa.\]. The original entry in TL-2/1 can be amended as follows: *Copies*: G, HH-Dumbarton Oaks, P (n.v.), USDA (n.v.). *Microfiche*: Zug, Switzerland (IDC), 1985, 22 microfiches. *Copy*: MO (n.v.). *Note* (3): (a) The G copy was stated to have 728 *pl*. However, most other copies have 729 *pl*. (as does *Fig. pl. méd.*). Plates 1-643 depict plants, the remaining ones are zoological. (b) In 2005, Antiquariaat Junk offered for sale the 1767 reissue of this 5 vol. work and the 1 vol. *Expl. abr. pl.*... for US$5600 (then €4500).