Schola botanica sive catalogus plantarum

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, gilt roll on leading edges, all edges gilt. Joints fragile, head worn, small stains on boards, corners rubbed.
Handsome armorial copy of Nicolas Lambert (OHR, 1772) lord of Thorigny and Vermont, appointed counsellor to the Parliament of Paris in 1687, in the second Chamber of requests of the Palace, president of the same Chamber in 1697; he was elected provost of Merchants of the city of Paris on 27 April 1725.
Listed in the catalogue of his sale, Bibliotheca Lambertina : seu catalogus librorum bibliothecae, lot 2575.