Skip to main content

AD 311 ADANSON, Michel Catalogue des plantes; herborisations; Paris, n.d.

 Item

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: n.d.

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

5 pp. 11 x 17 cm

General

Lists (in a paper cover) of the plants found in the environs of Paris, especially of Fontainebleau and Meudon, including a leaf listing, with prices, the food required for a lunch for 20 persons on a trip. Two short lists in the hand of B. de Jussieu are removed [cf. AD 363].

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

Contact: