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AD 379 TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656–1708) Abbregé de la Methode de tournefort [sic] en françois, n.d.

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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

Physical Description

54 pp. Ca.15 × 19 cm [In vellum cover titled Lettre de Patente.]

General

A Deschizeaux-type manuscript, an abstract of Tournefort’s Elémens de botanique (1694), preceded by alphabetic lists of the Latin and French generic names.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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