AD 314 ADANSON, Michel Discours sur l’utilité de l’histoire naturelle, n.d.
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: n.d.
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
12 pp. 19 x 23 cm + 4 smaller leaves.
General
Noted by Adanson as the preface for his Dictionnaire universelle d’histoire naturelle; describes briefly the economic importance of natural history of a dictionary of this branch of science. The requirements of adequate phytography are set forth.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository