TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE. Institutiones rei herbariae. 2 engraved titles and 489 botanical plates. 3 volumes. 4to, contemporarymottled calf gilt, spine ends worn, short crack in Volume 2 rear joint minor stain on Volume 3 front cover;

TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE. Institutiones rei herbariae. 2 engraved titles and 489 botanical plates. 3 volumes. 4to, contemporarymottled calf gilt, spine ends worn, short crack in Volume 2 rear joint minor stain on Volume 3 front cover; 19th-century institutional stampon letterpress and engraved titles, otherwise a CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE SET. Paris: Typographia Regia, 1719 E600-900 Enlarged third edition of the 1700 Latin translation of Tournefort's 1694 Elemens de Botanique,the most comprehensive work of systematic botany to that time, describing over 11,000 plant species worldwide using a polynomial nomenclature and classfication scheme that remained standard in Europeuntil the introduction of the binomial system by Linnaeus in 1753. Alden 719/148; Hunt 450; Nissen BBI 1976.