AD 288 ADANSON, Michel Plan d’un ouvrage universel d’histoire naturelle en gravures en folio, 1774
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: 1774
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
20 pp. 18 x 25 cm
General
A collection of drafts of six papers solicitating subscriptions to Adanson’s proposed Encyclopédié universelle, to contain illustrations of all the plants, animals, and minerals of the world. All are dated in 1774. One is addressed to Prince Pignatelli, one to M. Bertin to be given to Madame la C[omtess]e du Barry with permission to present it to the king, two were for an advertisement or prospectus without evidence of having been printed. Another, is dated 1772, but the wording of many parts is that of those dated 1774. The last went to M. le Chevalier Daugny for M. Beaujon [Nicolas] (1718–1786) and M. Le Cardinal de Luynes [Paul d’Albert] (1703– 1788).
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository