3 volumes, 4to (240 x 175 mm). Engraved titles to vols. II and III, 489 engraved plates; engraved initial and vignettes. (Some minor spotting or toning.) Contemporary French sprinkled calf gilt, red and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges sprinkled red (some very light wear). 

FIRST EDITION in which Tournefort translated his findings into Latin to engage a broader European readership.  Tournefort was the first botanist to clarify the concept of genus for plants, and the first to distinguish between genus and species, and he invented the word "herbarium." He was chief botanist to Louis XIV, and was in charge of the Jardin des Plantes. With plates after Claude Aubriet, who accompanied Tournefort on his plant-hunting travels, and who later became the principal artist at the Jardin des Plantes. Hunt 450; Nissen BBI, 1977; Stafleu & Cowan 14.783.