AD 292 ADANSON, Michel Plan et tableau de mes ouvrages manuscripts et en figures, depuis l’année 1741 jusqu’en 1775, distribuées suivant ma méthode naturelle découverte au Sénégal en 1749, 1775
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: 1775
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
31 pp. 18.5 x 24.5 cm
General
The first and the final drafts of the paper read at the Académie 15 February 1775 on Adanson’s large plans for a universal encyclopedia [for publication cf. AD 8]. The rough draft contains details omitted from the final draft, such as Adanson’s definition of système vs. méthode.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository