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Appendicibus aucta ab Antonio de Jussieu Lugdunaeo . . . / 
Corollarium institutionum rei herbariae, in quo Plantae 
1356 numif icentia Ludovici Magni in Orientalibus Regio- 
nibus observatae recensentur, & ad genera sua revocan- 
tur. 3 tomes. Lugduni juxta Exemplar , Parisiis , E Typogra- 
phia Regia, 171 9. 2 titres graves. 489 planches gravees. 
1 0 , 58 ,XXI , 1 6 ,695 p.Veau,dos a nerf s , ornes ,tr.rouges. 
Reliure originale. . , , 
Nissen 1977,Pritzel 9427.- The Latin edition of Toumefort s 
'Elements de Botanique,1694 ' marked anera in Botany, for 
Toumefort in this work established a consistent and usable _ 
monomial nanenclature of not always satisfactorily characteri- 
zed genera. He became known as the 'Father of Genera . The 
introduction to this work,viz. Isogoge in Ran Herbariam was a 
useful biliography and textbook of Botany ,which guided all 
rising botanists and had no conpetitor until Linnaeus provided 
his Fundamenta Botanica in 1735. The copperplates are valuable 
in interpreation of his genera and in fixing the 'type or 
'Standard' species. The plates containing thousands of figures 
were painted by Claude Aubriet and belong witli their ciear 
and elegant style to the most remarkable pieces of pre-linnean 
botanical illustrations.- A copy in perfect condition, clean 
paper ,broad margins ,practically no foxing 
