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TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656–1708). A Voyage into the Levant: Perform’d by Command of the Late French King. Containing the Ancient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; as Also of Contantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, The Frontiers of Persia and Asia Minor… London: for D. Midwinter, et al, 1741. 3 volumes, 8vo. Alphabetical table for the “Principal Matters” at end of Volume III. 152 engraved plates and maps, including 7 folding. Contemporary calf rebacked with new spines (corners repaired, title–page in Volume II reinforced at gutter). SECOND ENGLISH EDITION. Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Tournefort travelled through Western Europe, particularly the Pyrenees, where he made extensive collections. He travelled through the islands of Greece and visited Constantinople, the borders of the Black Sea, Armenia, and Georgia, collecting plants and undertaking various types of observations. He was accompanied by the German botanist Andreas Gundelsheimer and the artist Claude Aubriet. His description of these journeys was published posthumously as “Relation d’un voyage du Levant”. Tournefort was killed by a carriage in Paris; the road on which he died now bears his name, “Rue de Tournefort”. Atabey 961; Blackmer 1318.