AD 256 ADANSON, Michel Methode de decrire par articles, 1753
Content Description
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: 1753
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
11 pp. Written on an assortment of sheets of different sizes, mostly 32 × 41.5 cm.
General
One is a broadsheet with columns for all possible characters useful when preparing a plant description, filled out for the baobab tree [Adansonia] as an example. Annotated by Adanson to have been conceived by him in Senegal in 1750 and perfected in 1753.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository