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Paris: E Typographia Regia, 1719. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in two (3) volumes in two bindings, uniformly bound in full brown leather, borders ruled in gilt, 5 raised spine bands w/ gilt-decorated compartments, title and volume labels lettered in gilt on brown fields, marbled endpapers, speckled/mottled text block edges. Stated 3rd ed. [vi],xxxii,[xvi],695 + [vii],58,489 (plates) pp. Imperfect copy with plates bound thus: (II) 1-254; (III) 255-364 (262 and 263 reversed), 437-489, 365-436, lacking pl. 24, 93-95, 97, 102, 109, 133, 151, 164, 167, 194-196, 230-231, 256, 307, 411, 412; Vol. II engraved half-title inexplicably bound in between pl. 2 and 3. Leather shows a few areas of minor rubbing, creased along joints, with mild rubbing to corners; book plate mounted inside front cover of each volume. Vol. I engraved half-title detached with some raggedness along edges. Plates generally clean and fully intact..

1719 Elements of BOTANY Joseph Tournefort Herbariae PLANTS Flowers Herbal
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a 17th-century botanist who is best known for his work 'Elements of Botany'. In this book, Tournefort made important contributions to botanical nomenclature, identifying the divisions in flowering plants and make distinctions between genus and species. This 1719 Latin edition entitled 'Institutiones rei Herbariae', collects and describes nearly 7,000 different plant species many of which include impressive botanical illustrations.
Included with this volume are letters written and signed by famed French botanists Louis Claude Marie Richard (1754–1821) and his son, Achille Richard (1794–1852). Both were esteemed botanists of their time and taught at the French National Academy of Medicine.
Item number: #17982
Price: $1500
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton
Institutiones rei herbariae
Lugduni, iuxta exemplar Parisiis : E Typographia regia., 1719.
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Paris: Typographia Regia, 1719. Third. hardcover. very good(+). Claude Aubriet. Three volumes (1 text and 2 plate volumes.). Short thick 4tos. [6], xxxii, [xvi], 695, [11], 58 pages; [1], 250 leaves; [1], 253-489 leaves. Engraved title page vignette and chapter heading in text volume, and two engraved titles in plate volumes. Contains 489 handsomely engraved single-sided plates by Claude Aubriet. With an appendix by the French naturalist and physician Antoine de Jussieu and "Corollarium Institutionum Rei Herbariae in quo plantae 1356." Bound in contemporary vellum (spines quite darkened; internally quite clean). Paris: Typographia Regia, 1719. Third edition.<br/><br/> THE CLASSIFICATION OF ALL PLANTS INTO GENERA. The Institutiones (1700) was mainly a translation of the Elements de botanique into Latin; and the Corollarium Institutionum Rei Herbariae (1703) was a supplement written on Tournefort's return from travels to the Near East, describing 1350 genera which he had… Read More

Paris: Typographia Regia, 1700. 3 vols, 4to. (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches). Vol. 1- [18], 697, 54, [5] pp.; Vol. 2- 250 copper engraved plates; Vol. 3- 251-489 copper engraved plates. Two copper engraved titles, copper engraved title vignette, text vignette, historical initial, headpiece, tailpiece. Contemporary French sprinkled calf gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling, red and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt. First edition of this important work here including the Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariæ. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was the first botanist to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants and the first to distinguish between genus and species; the fundamentals of these ideas remain valid to this day. Chief Botanist to Louis XIV, plant hunter and Professor of Botany, in charge of the Royal Garden, the Jardins des Plantes. He translated his researches here into Latin to engage and influence a wider European audience and… Read More