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AD 282 ADANSON, Michel Cours d’histoire naturelle. Zoologie, 1772

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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: 1772

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

772 pp. 17 x 22 cm

General

The manuscript for the first part of these three seasons of lectures (cf. Nicolas p. 65) beginning, respectively, 30 January 1772, 17 December 1772, and 25 February 1774. It consists of 20 clearly written séances, each in a paper folder of the same size, gathered in a board folder. Originally the broadsheet poster for the courses [AD 7] was filed here. This manuscript was published in 1845 [cf. AD 9].

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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