AD 89 [LINNAEUS, Carl] [Prospectus] Traduction complète des ouvrages de Charles Linné augmentées de notes critiques, & de la description d’un grand nombre d’especes & de genres nouveaux qui ne se trouvent point dans Linné 6 pp. [2 pp. removed by Adanson, apparently of unrelated material]. Paris, Guillot, 1787. 4°, 1787

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: 1787

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

General

Annotated with sarcastic comments. Contains an advertisement of the French edition of Philip Miller Dictionnaire des jardiniers noting that vol. 7 will appear next June, vol. 8 (the last) in July a month later “without delay.”