A landmark in the history of botany

JUSSIEU, Antoine Laurent de.

Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto Regio.

Paris: Herissant und Barrois, 1789.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #002244

8vo (203x125 mm). [24], lxxii, 498, [2] pp. Errata on final leaf. Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers (top of spine little chipped, light wear to extremities, boards bowed slightly outwards), marbled endpapers. Text little age-toned, very little occasional foxing. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. ----

Horblit 68b; Norman 1194; Hunt 703; Stafleu TL2 3468. See also Morton, History of Botanical Science, pp.311-3 and Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, pp.321-2. - FIRST EDITION OF A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF BOTANY. In this "revolutionary work" (Hunt) A. L. de Jussieu (1748--1836) set up a complete natural vegetable system, which superseded Linnaeus' classification and became the starting-point for all subsequent systematic improvements.

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