AD 263 ADANSON, Michel Plan d’un ouvrage général sur la botanique, 1759
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: 1759
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
20 pp. 18 × 23 cm [Rough draft]; 29 pp. 20.5 × 32 cm [Final draft]
General
The manuscript, in two drafts, of Adanson’s announcement of his Familles des plantes read at the Académie on the occasion of the “rentrée publique de la Saint-Martin” on 14 November 1759.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository