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[142] TOURNEFORT, J.P. Institutiones Rei Herbariae. Editio Tertia 
Appendicibus aucta ab Antonio de Jussieu. Parisiis, e typographia Regia, 1719. 
3 volumes (1 text-volume & 2 volumes of plates). 4to. pp. (6), xxxii, 695, (8), 58 
with 2 engraved frontispieces, 1 engraved title-vignette, 2 engraved vignettes 
and 489 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gilt spines with 5 raised 
bands (ends of spines a bit chipped). fl. 4.800 
Stafleu & Cowan, 14.783. The present edition is in fact the second Latin edition, the 
first edition refers to the ‘Elemens de botanique’; Hunt 450: “Tourneforts significance 
lies in the fact of having classified all plants into genera. Hundreds of the generic 
names coined or accepted by him were later adopted by Linnaeus and are in use today 
Tourneforts genera have largely been retained (he accepted 725), by leading taxono- 
mists of the i8th century. Almost one-third of the genera of French flora derive from 
Tournefort. His herbarium, 6.963 species is one of the treasures of the Museum 
d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris. The plates, all by C. Aubriet, “gehoren in ihrem klaren 
und doch so eleganten Aufbau zu dem erstaunlichsten, was die vor-linneische 
Botanikmalerei aufzuweisen hat, ...” (Nissen BBI, p. 98). Also Blunt speaks highly of 
Aubriet and calls his drawings remarkable for the accuracy of their dissections. 
