AD 317 ADANSON, Michel Fruits, n.d.

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AD 317

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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: n.d.

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Physical Description

391 pp. 11 x 17 cm

General

A collection of manuscripts on fruits and fruit trees. In addition to general topics, treatments of individual fraisiers (strawberry), maronier (chestnut), oranger, melons, pêchers (peach), poiriers (pear), and pommiers (apple). A few of the Deschizeaux-type leaves are present (cf. p. 268), together with a few newspaper clippings. In the poirier collection a drawing by Adanson illustrating a monstrosity is included.