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AD 299 ADANSON, Michel Plan de descriptions et de figures completes d’un considérablement … nombre nouvellement découverts et de quelques en particulier qui n’avoient observés avec parfait d’exactitude, [ca.1779]

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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: [ca.1779]

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

10 pp. 17 x 22 cm

General

An unfinished manuscript of a paper to be read at the Académie, including a long Latin description of mangrove (Rhizophora Linn.). The paper’s watermark is dated 1777.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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