Institutiones Rei Herbariae. Editio Altera, Gallica Longe Auctior. Quingentis circiter Tabulis aneis adornata

by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

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

• Binding: Leather

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