TOURNEFORT (Joseph Pitton de). Institutiones rei herbariæ. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1719. 3 volumes in 2 volumes in-4, marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, red edges (Binding of the period). Third edition and second in Latin of the Eléments de botanique (1694), published and supplemented by Antoine de Jussieu. The two volumes of plates (here bound into one) are illustrated with a frontispiece (repeated) and 489 plates of plants, flowers and fruits detailing all the elements of which they are composed. A fine copy in contemporary binding. Waxing at the tail of one volume. Nissen, BBI, n°1988.