Research Catalog

Title

Josephi Pitton Tournefort Aquisextiensis ... Institutiones rei herbariae.

Author

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.

Publication

Parisiis : E Typograpia regia, 1719.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jussieu, Antoine de, 1686-1758.
• Aubriet, Claude, 1665-1742.

Description

3 v. : ill.; 25 cm. (4to)

Alternative Title

• Institutiones rei herbariae.
• Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariae.

Subjects

• Botany > Pre-Linnean works
• Tobacco > Early works to 1800
• Botany > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800

Note

• Vols. 2-3 have engraved title pages only, which read: Institutiones rei herbariae.
• First Latin edition published 1700, being "in the main a translation of [the author's] Elémens de botanique [1694]"--Hunt.
• Vol. 1: [8], xxii, [16], 695, [3], [8], 58 p.; v. 2: 251 prints; v. 3: 240 prints.
• Signatures (v. 1): ã⁴ *-4*⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ A-4S⁴, ²ã⁴ A⁴ (A1 + 1) B-G⁴ H². ã1 and ²ã1 blank.
• Illustrations (v. 2-3): 491 prints : engraving ; full-page (plate mark 17 x 11 cm.). Comprise added title pages and 489 plates of botanical ill., numbered tab. 1-tab. 476 and 477-489. Captions in Latin and/or French. "Though the plates are unsigned, many of them go back to those done by Claude Aubriet for the Elémens de botanique. The 451 plates of the earlier work were increased to 476 in 1700, and 13 more were added in the Corollarium"--Hunt.
• Ornaments (v. 1): 5 prints : engraving ; plate mark 8 x 13 cm. or smaller. Comprise printer's device on t.p., 2 headpieces and 2 ornamental initals. -- Woodcut tailpieces.
• "Turnefortii vita": v. 1, p. i-x.
• "Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariae, in quo plantae 1356 ... in orientalibus regionibus observatae recensentur, & ad genera sua revocantur" ([8], 58 p. at end of v. 1; prints no. 477-489, v. 3) has special half title. Previously published separately (1703).
• "Nicotiana, nicotiane ou tabac": p. 117 (v. 1); ill.: tab. 41 (v. 2).

Bibliography (note)

• "Catalogus operum botanicorum": v. 1, p. xxxi-xxxii; "Explicatio nominum scriptorvm rei herbariae, quorum mentio sit in hoc opere": v. 1, p. [5-13].

Indexed In (note)

• Pritzel
• Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration
• Hunt botanical cat.

Call Number

Arents 94-450

OCLC

NYPG94-B40124

Author

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.

Title

Josephi Pitton Tournefort Aquisextiensis ... Institutiones rei herbariae.

Imprint

Parisiis : E Typograpia regia, 1719.

Edition

Editio tertia / appendicibus aucta ab Antonio de Jussieu Lugdunaeo ...

Bibliography

"Catalogus operum botanicorum": v. 1, p. xxxi-xxxii; "Explicatio nominum scriptorvm rei herbariae, quorum mentio sit in hoc opere": v. 1, p. [5-13].

Indexed In:

Pritzel 9427-9428

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 1977

Hunt botanical cat., 450

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary quarter purplish pink leather and marbled paper boards.

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Added Author

Jussieu, Antoine de, 1686-1758.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708. Corollarium institutionum rei herbariae. 1719.

Aubriet, Claude, 1665-1742. Illustrator

Added Title

Institutiones rei herbariae.

Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariae.

Research Call Number

Arents 94-450