Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de.

Estimate

700 - 1,000 GBP

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Description

Institutiones rei herbariae. Paris: e Typographia Regia, 1700

Second edition, 3 volumes, 4to (235 x 176mm.), engraved titles to volumes 2 and 3, 476 engraved plates, contemporary calf, spines gilt, a few plates browned, binding slightly worn and with a few neat repairs

Provenance

Ja[mes] Hay, ownership inscription in each vol. and note of purchase in 1730; Jo: Dyke, inscription on each title-page; William Constable, FRS & FSA, bookplate

Literature

Nissen BBI 1977

Catalogue Note

First published in French as Elémens de botanique in 1694, this edition was published in the year that Tournefort embarked on his travels to the East to collect plants and make other observations, spending two years travelling through the islands of Greece, Constantinople, the Black Sea, Armenia and Georgia. This work however is based on his western European tours and experience.