TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1756-1708). Relation d'un voyage du Levant . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1717. 2 volumes, 4° (242 x 185mm). 152 engraved maps, views and botanical plates, a few folding. (Plate 43 in vol. I shaved at bottom margin with very slight loss, a little worming in foremargins at the end of both vols.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco labels (a little rubbed).
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1756-1708). Relation d'un voyage du Levant . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1717. 2 volumes, 4° (242 x 185mm). 152 engraved maps, views and botanical plates, a few folding. (Plate 43 in vol. I shaved at bottom margin with very slight loss, a little worming in foremargins at the end of both vols.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco labels (a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the celebrated botanist's voyage to, and in, Turkey at the command of Louis XIV, a voyage that took over two years, but unfortunately did not include Syria and Egypt owing to the plague. During the voyage Tournefort brought back 1,350 plants, mostly unknown in Europe. His nomenclature was later to influence Linnaeus.
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1756-1708). Relation d'un voyage du Levant . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1717. 2 volumes, 4° (242 x 185mm). 152 engraved maps, views and botanical plates, a few folding. (Plate 43 in vol. I shaved at bottom margin with very slight loss, a little worming in foremargins at the end of both vols.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco labels (a little rubbed).
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1756-1708). Relation d'un voyage du Levant . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1717. 2 volumes, 4° (242 x 185mm). 152 engraved maps, views and botanical plates, a few folding. (Plate 43 in vol. I shaved at bottom margin with very slight loss, a little worming in foremargins at the end of both vols.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco labels (a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the celebrated botanist's voyage to, and in, Turkey at the command of Louis XIV, a voyage that took over two years, but unfortunately did not include Syria and Egypt owing to the plague. During the voyage Tournefort brought back 1,350 plants, mostly unknown in Europe. His nomenclature was later to influence Linnaeus.
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