Joseph Pitton de TOURNEFORT

Schola botanica sive catalogus plantarum, quas ab aliquot annis in Horto Regio Parisiensis Studiosis indigitavit vir clarissimvs Joseph Pitton Tournefort, D. M. ut et Pauli Hermanni P.P. Paradisi Batavi prodromus, In quo Planta rariores omnes, in Batavorum Hortis hactenus cultae, & plurinam partem à nemine antea descriptae recensentur. Edente in lucem S. W. A.
Extract from the botanical lessons of the celebrated Pitton de Tournefort, edited by William Sherard under the pseudonym Simon Warton.
Full red morocco binding, spine in five compartments with gilt title, boards with armorial stamps, pastedowns of multicoloured paste-paper in cloud style, decorative gilt board-edges

First edition illustrated with 3 repeated engraved title-frontispieces representing the King's garden, 451 plates drawn by Aubriet (who would later accompany the author on his voyage to the Levant), and 5 text vignettes. Dedication to King Louis XIV.

Contemporary polished marbled beige calf, spines with raised bands decorated with the cipher of Louis XIV in 4 compartments ornamented with fleur-de-lys, stars and plants, red morocco titles and volume labels, volume labels decorated with fleur-de-lys and suns, royal arms stamped on covers (OHR n°2494, 10, still in use at the beginning of the reign of Louis XV), boards thrice framed in gilt, inner dentelle and on edges, speckled edges,