The compleat herbal: or, the botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort, chief botanist to the late French king. Carefully translated from the original Latin. With large additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others, the most celebrated moderns. To which are added, two alphabetical indexes; one, containing the names, the other, the physical vertues and uses of the several plants. Illustrated with about five hundred copper plates, containing above four thousand different figures, all curiously engraven. A work highly instructive, and of general use. With a short account of the life and writings of the author.
- Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.
- Date:
- 1716-30
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Also known as
Élémens de botanique. Latin. English
Publication/Creation
London : printed for R. Bonwicke, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, S. Wotton, Sam. Manship, Rich. Wilkin, Benj. Tooke, Ralph Smith and Tho. Ward; and are to be sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, 1716-30.
Physical description
2v.,plates ; 40.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T121704
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.