Pitton Tournefort, Mr. - Elémens de Botanique... - Lot 19 - Crait + Müller

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Pitton Tournefort, Mr. - Elémens de Botanique... - Lot 19 - Crait + Müller
Pitton Tournefort, Mr. - Elémens de Botanique ou Methode pour connoître les Plantes. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1694. 3 volumes in-8, marbled calf, spines ornamented, chiselled edges, spotted edges, 1 cap shaved, 3 corners dull. Title frontispiece (repeated in each volume), [10 ff.], 562 pp. and [10 ff.], 2 engraved headbands and 2 engravings; 235 plates; plates 236-451. First edition. A founding work of modern botany in which Tournefort exposes his system of classification. Even before publishing a single work, Tournefort had acquired a great reputation and was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in 1688. His Élémens de Botanique earned him European recognition, especially for the quality of his descriptions, and Linnaeus owed him a great deal. He acknowledged his debt by giving the name "tournefortia" to a genus of the borraginae family. The plates were made from drawings by Claude Aubriet who was the main artist of the Jardin du Roi (our Jardin des Plantes). Nice copy. Attached : Rozier, Abbé.- Cours complet d'agriculture pratique, d'économie rurale et domestique et de médecine vétérinaire ; rédigé par ordre alphabétique... Paris, Buisson, Colin, Colas, 1809. 6 vol. in-8 in half speckled basane, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, red and green morocco title and giblets, boards rubbed, scattered foxing - [1 f.1 f.], 600 pp. (title missing, false title pastedown with missing letters, last f. restored with loss of letters), portrait and 3 plates h-t; [2 ff.], 534 pp. (marginal repair to 2 ff.), portrait, 5 plates, 3 of which folding; 603 pp, [1 f.], lacking false title and title, 2 folding plates; [2 ff.], [4 ff.], 655 pp, [1 p.], 5 plates of which 4 folding, some quires interchanged; [2 ff.], 606 pp, 3 folding plates; [2 ff.], 4 pp. xxxij, 510 pp, 3 folding plates.
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