AD 8 ADANSON, M[ichel] Plan & tableau de mes ouvrages Ex Observations et Mémoires sur la Physique sur l’Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts et Métiers[de. Rozier]. 18 pp. [Paris, Avril 1775]. 4°, 1775

Item

Staff Only

Content Description

From the Collection:

The Michel Adanson Library at Hunt Institute includes the botanical portion of Adanson's personal library, along with correspondence, manuscripts, and a large number of plant illustrations clipped from published sources. The collection contains 127 book titles, 117 letters, 146 manuscripts and thousands of plant images clipped from published works, many of them annotated by him. (copied from https://www.huntbotanical.org/library/show.php?1)

Dates

Creation: 1775

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

General

Reprint, paged separately (originally paged 257-276), of a plan for a universal encyclopaedia projected by Adanson. Annotated by correction of two errors, plus (1) inside of cover, a dated inscription of 1 Mai 1775 to The Royal Society, London in a different ink; and (2) a notation at top of first page that this is the only copy left with the Rapport of the Académie [AD 63] and that twice (1790 and 1795) copies sent to French government institutions were not returned. The manuscript of this report is AD 292.