Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Institutiones rei herbaria.
Josephi Pitton Tournefort's Institutiones rei herbariae, printed at the Royal Printing House in Paris in 1700, is a pre-Linnean botanical textbook whose plates were engraved to classify plants by their flowers, fruits and seeds. Its copperplates are plain black-and-white line engravings, each page holding a numbered plate of labelled plant parts such as flower heads, catkins and seed pods, arranged in tidy grids a designer could borrow for scientific diagrams, botanical borders or vintage specimen layouts.
