AD 325 ADANSON, Michel Nouveau spectacle de la nature, 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
4 pp. 17.5 × 22.5 cm
General
The preface in a book whose title was adapted from Pluche’s Spectacle de la Nature [cf. AD 320], in which Adanson criticizes Pluche and provides an outline of his projected book.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository