Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Institutiones rei herbariæ
Contributors: Aubriet, Claude, 1665-1742; Typographia Regia
Edition: Ed. altera, gallica longe auctior, quingentis circiter tabulis æneis adornata.
Publisher: E Typographia Regia
Published: 1700
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Pre-Linnean works; Botany
Other titles: Institutiones rei herbariæ.; Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariæ.; Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariæ.
Notes: Vol.1: text ([20], 697, [7], 54, [5] p.); v.2-3: 489 leaves of plates.

Vols. 2-3, engraved half-title.

Colophon.

"Explicatio nominum scriptorum rei herbariæ quorum mentio sit in hoc opere": v.1, 8 prefatory pages.

Includes Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariæ : in quo plantæ 1356. munificentiâ Ludovici Magni in orientalibus regionibus observatæ recensentur, & ad genera sua revocantur. -- [Parisiis : E Typographia Regia curante J. Anisson, ejusdem typographiæ præfecto, 1703] (54+ p. at end of v.1).

Claude Aubriet did the drawings for the plates on the first edition whose title was É̲l̲é̲m̲e̲n̲s̲ d̲e̲ b̲o̲t̲a̲n̲i̲q̲u̲e̲ [1694]. Many of the plates are repeated in this edition.

Includes index.

Stafleu (1st) 1323

Pritzel (2nd) 9427-9428

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Library copy: 3 volumes bound uniformly in vellum. A still-life watercolor of pears found between p. 240-241, was removed to the Library's Art Collection (ART 85-0001)

Temporarily shelved in cabinet 10.