Translation of: Elâemens de botanique ou Mâethode pour connoãitre les plantes. originally published in Paris, 1694.

Facsimile reprint ed. probably issued ca. 1750, as the "Editio tertia, reprint" described in Stafleu & Cowan. See also Guâedáes, M. "Notules de bibliographie botanique XVI-XXI," in Archives of natural history (1983), p. 197-200 for the characteristics that distinguish this ed. from the original 1719 version, chiefly involving the title vignette, watermarks, and some differences in text layout.

At end of t. 1: "Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Corollarium institutionum rei herbariae, in quo plantae 1356 munificentiãa Ludovici Magni in orientalibus regionibus observatae recensentur, & ad genera sua revocantur", with "De generibus plantarum recens institutis" and indexes, [8], 58 p. (p. [1]-[2] of 1st group blank). Pagination and signatures not continuous with main text of Institutiones rei herbariae. Without separate t.p. (half-title and caption titles only).

The plate volumes (t. 2 and t. 3) have engraved half-titles only; t. 2 contains plates 1-252; t. 3 plates 253-489.

Engraved title vignette; woodcut head- and tail-pieces; side-notes; initials.

Includes a brief life of Tournefort and bibliography together with other introductory material, t. 1, p. i-xxxij.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), 14.783

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SCNHRB (formerly BOTRB) c.1 (39088009277161; 39088009277252; 39088009277013) has bookplate: A.S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase; his ownership stamp on t.p. and elsewhere.

SCNHRB c.1 has some penciled annotations (perhaps by Hitchcock or Chase?), especially t. 1, p. 512-515 and passim., and t. 3, plates 292-298 and passim.

SCNHRB c.1 has stamp of bookseller Oswald Weigel, Leipzig.

SCNHRB c.1 bound in tree calf, gilt lettering on spine; housed in archival paperboard boxes for preservation.

SCNHRB c.2 (t.1: 39088011699717; t.2: 39088011699758; t.3: 39088011699790) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer; with his monogram stamp on front free endpaper of t.1&2. Bookdealer's description tipped-in t.1.

SCNHRB c.2 bound in recent three-quarter calf and marbled paper over boards; title in gilt on spine. Invoice of the Townsend Book Bindery laid-in.