AD 320 ADANSON, Michel Jardinage, traité méthodiquement, 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
74 pp. 21 x 32 cm
General
A manuscript of a general treatise on gardening practices, noted by Adanson to have been based on the earlier writings of abbé Pluche and Sieur [Louis] Liger and others, referring possibly to Spectacle de la nature by Antoine-Nicolas Pluche (1736–1751), and one or more of the several horticultural works of Louis Liger (1658–1717), whose last was published in 1743. This is an early Adanson manuscript, probably before his voyage to Senegal or early in his Senegal period. Its cover bears the number “49,” added later, of his large series of planned publications.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository