AD 260 ADANSON, Michel Carte générale du Sénégal, July 1757
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: July 1757
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
1 p.
General
Original manuscript map, on an older printed map, of that published in Adanson’s Histoire naturelle du Sénégal (1757) [AD 4]. The drawing, executed by Philippe Buache, bears many corrections and additions by Adanson.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository