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The compleat herbal, or, The botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort, chief botanist to the late French king / carefully 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 virtues 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. (3.23068)
Date: 1719 – 1730Creator: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.
Type: Book
Extent: 2 v. : ill. 24 cm. (4to)
The compleat herbal, or, The botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort, chief botanist to the late French king / carefully 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 virtues 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. (3.23069)
Date: 1719 – 1730Creator: Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.
Type: Book
Extent: 2 v. : ill. 24 cm. (4to)