Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Institutiones rei herbaria.
Institutiones rei herbaria is a 1700 botanical treatise printed in Paris by the Typographia Regia, written by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort with plates by Claude Aubriet for students and botanists before Linnaean nomenclature. Its copperplate pages are numbered tables of flower, seed, and fruit parts, each labelled with letters A to N and arranged in neat grids on aged cream paper. A designer could take the orderly specimen-chart layout, the lettered callouts, and the fine hatched engraving as a model for scientific diagrams.
