TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708). Elemens de botanique, ou Methode pour connoitre les plantes. Paris: L'Lmprimerie Royale, 1694. 8 o (213 x 130 mm), engraved additional titles and 451 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (some wear to spine ends and joints). Provenance : Domini de Secondaz (ownership inscription); J.B. de Secondaz (ownership inscription); purchased from Rousseau Girard, 1966. FIRST EDITION of this classic work, "of considerable importance in the development of systematic botany" (Hunt). Some 10,146 species in 648 genera are presented, covering all the plants then known to Western botany. Tournefort utilized the concepts of genera and species as developed by Caspar Bauhin, developing a classification scheme based on flower and corolla structure. He also outlined a system of classification for groups higher then genera. He was the first to consistently develop the generic concept, and his system of classification became the predominant one until Linnaeus. Hunt 302; Nissen BBI 1976; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1322. (3)
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708). Elemens de botanique, ou Methode pour connoitre les plantes. Paris: L'Lmprimerie Royale, 1694. 8 o (213 x 130 mm), engraved additional titles and 451 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (some wear to spine ends and joints). Provenance : Domini de Secondaz (ownership inscription); J.B. de Secondaz (ownership inscription); purchased from Rousseau Girard, 1966. FIRST EDITION of this classic work, "of considerable importance in the development of systematic botany" (Hunt). Some 10,146 species in 648 genera are presented, covering all the plants then known to Western botany. Tournefort utilized the concepts of genera and species as developed by Caspar Bauhin, developing a classification scheme based on flower and corolla structure. He also outlined a system of classification for groups higher then genera. He was the first to consistently develop the generic concept, and his system of classification became the predominant one until Linnaeus. Hunt 302; Nissen BBI 1976; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1322. (3)
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