> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 296](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212338) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10636-1) LSID 10636-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2976894) QID Q2976894 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thory, Claude Antoine (1759-1827), French polygraph, horticulturist and botanist, especially rhodologist; studied at the Collège de Lisieux; counsel at the French Parliament; clerk at the "Chambre criminelle" of the Paris court of justice; after 1789 dedicating himself to the natural sciences and literature, especially botany. **Abbreviated name**: *Thory* \[standard form in IPNI: *Thory*\] #### Herbarium and types Some of the Malmaison roses are at [[Collection P|P]]. – Thory was the author of the text of Redouté's *Les Roses*. – Beaumont (1828) mentions the existence of a "complete herbarium of plants and shrubs of France". #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 381 (b. 26 Mai 1759); BM 5: 2104; Bossert p. 400; CSP 5: 983; Herder p. 342; Hortus 3: 1205; Jackson p. 142; MW p. 496; NI 1958; Plesch p. 433; PR 9244-9247, 7455, ed. 1: 8413, 10219-10221; Rehder 5: 846; Sotheby 746; TL-1/1044, 1295-1297; Tucker 1: 688; Zander ed. 10, p. 724, ed. 11, p. 826. #### Biofile - Anon., Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 188: 485-487. 1962. - Beaumont, D., *in* P.J. Redouté, Les Roses, ed. 3. 1: i-vi. 1828. - MacPhail, I., ed., Cat. Redout. 25-26, 75, 103-104, 104-105. 1963. - Quérard, J.M., La France littéraire 9: 455-457. s.d. - Wright, R.L., Gardener's tribute 158-160, 184, 1949. - Z. *in* J.Fr. Michaud, Biogr. univ. 41: 434. 1854f (facs. ed. 1970). #### Composite works *Les Roses*, par P.J. Redouté, Thory author of text, ed. 1, 1817-1824; ed. 2, 1824-1826, "décrites par C.A. Thorry \[sic; Thory had nothing to do with this edition\], ed. 3, 1828-1829, with biographical note of Thory by D. Beaumont. – See TL-2/8748, 8749, 8751. – Ed. 3 contains the publication, posthumously, of an additional *Traité du Rosier*, by Thory. ### Publications ##### n.14.293. Rosa Redutea **Title** *Rosa Redutea* seu descriptio novae speciaei generis Rosae, dicata Petro Josepho Redouté eximio florum pictori a Claud. Ant. Tory... Parisiis (Apud D.am Hérissant Le Doux,...) 1817. **Abbreviated title**: *Rosa Redutea*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 20 Dec 1817 (BF), p. \[1\]-7, *1 pl*. (col. stipple engr.). *Copies*: G, HH, L; IDC 5762. ##### n.14.294. Rosa Candolleana **Title** *Rosa Candolleana* seu descriptio novae speciei generis *Rosae*, dicata Pyr.-Aug. De Candolle, a Cl.-Ant. Thory, in prima Parisiorum civitatis circumscriptione aedile vicario; addito Catalogo inedito Rosarum quas Andreas Du Pont in horto suo studiosè colebat anno 1813; cum figura aenea picta. Parisiis (apud Dam Hérissant Le Doux,...) 1819. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Rosa Candoll.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 25 Mar 1819 (date on which Thory sent 3 copies to Genève; BF 3 Apr 1819; preface 15 Feb 1819), p. \[1\]-19, *1 pl*. (uncol. copp. H.J. Redouté). *Copies*: BR, G(3), HH, L, USDA; IDC 5763. – The letter by Thory to the secretary of the Acad. Sci. Genève, accompanying 3 copies, is present in one of the G copies). *Extract*: Bibl. Univ. Sc. Arts, Genève 10: 282-288, *pl. 2.* Apr 1819. ##### n.14.295. Prodrome de la monographie **Title** *Prodrome de la monographie* des espèces et variétés connues *du genre Rosier*, divisées selon leur ordre naturel, avec la synonymie, les noms vulgaires, un tableau synoptique, et deux planches gravées en couleur. Ouvrage utile aux botanistes-cultivateurs pour l'arrangement méthodique de ces arbrisseaux dans les grandes collections, et aux pépiniéristes pour répondre au demandes qui leur seraient faites... à Paris (chez Pierre Dufart,...) 1820. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Prodr. monogr. Rosier*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 7 Oct 1820 (BF), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-190, *pl. 1-2* (col. copp. H.J. Redouté). *Copies*: B-S, BR, HH, NY; IDC 5764. *Ref*.: Sprengel, K.P.J., Neu. Entdeck. 3: 249-253. 1822 (rev.). ##### n.14.296. Monographie **Title** *Monographie* ou histoire naturelle *du genre Groseillier*, contenant la description, l'histoire, la culture et les usages de toutes les groseilles connues, avec 24 planches coloriées... à Paris (chez P. Dufart,...) 1829. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Monogr. Groseillier*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1829, p. \[i\*\], frontisp. portr. author, \[iii\*\], \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-152, *pl. 1-24* (col. \[pl. 1 uncol.\] liths. L.A. & A.M. Caneva). *Copies*: B, BR, G(2), HH, NY.