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AD 264 ADANSON, Michel Jugement sur mes Familles des plantes, 1764

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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: 1764

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

35 pp. 11.5 × 17 cm

General

A list of reviews from current journals of Adanson’s Familles des plantes. Included is a draft of Adanson’s summary of the book, dated 21 Mars 1764, with the names of the journals to which this summary was sent. There is also a draft of a short letter of the same date to Monsieur Roux, editor of the Journal de Médecine, in which Adanson tells him that he left a copy of the book in the porch of his house the day before and now sends a copy of the abstract to spare him the trouble of reading the volumes.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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