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AD 46 DE LILLE, Abbé [Jacques Montanier] Les jardins, ou l’art d’embellir les paysages;
poëme
135, [1] pp. Paris, Valade, Reims, Cazin, 1782 [Approbation and permis dated 15 Mai 1782]. 16°
“Collationé.” Annotated. For English translation see Hunt Cat. 702.
AD 47 [DESCEMET, Jean] (1732–1810) Catalogue des plantes du Jardin de Mrs. les
Apoticaires de Paris suivant leurs genres & les caractères des fleurs, conformément à la
méthode de Monsieur Tournefort dans son edition Françoise de 1694
102 pp. [Paris], 1741 [last date in volume is 8 VII 1741. Cover lacking, leaves loose]. 8°
“Collationé Adanson No. 77.” Annotated.
AD 48 D[ESHAYES, Gérard-Paul?] Carte botanique de la méthode naturelle d’A. L. de Jussieu.
Rédigée par le C[itoy]en D** d’après le tableau du règne végétal du C[itoy]en Ventenat
membre de l’Institut National de France et l’un des conservateurs de la bibliothèque du
Panthéon
98 pp., plus a large table printed on four broadsheets of heavy paper [cut into strips by Adanson],
Paris, Impr. de la République [Duboy-Laverne, see p. 4], An 9 (1801). 8° [except table]
Heavily annotated, in part sharply critical, e.g., the short citation reprinted by Chevalier (1934) is
incomplete. The omitted portion reads, “Manoevre bien lâche et basse en emploient le nom de
Durande célèbre très considéré par Jussieu et Lansel [?] rapporteur au ministre Luc. Bonaparte
…” [who was minister during the preparations of the work]. However, this insinuation is
certainly in error as concerns Durande for the Dijon botanist Jean-François Durande died in 1794
and could not have known the printed Tableau of Ventenat. Probably Adanson was misled by the
first sentence of the introduction: Since I have long been in possession of a copy of the “carte
botanique” of Durande. This older “carte” [cf. Pritzel no. 2550 or Catalogue of the British
Museum (Natural History)] is reported as Méthode de Linné and was published in 1781. The
British Museum (N. H.) Catalogue ascribes (p. 412) a later edition of the 1801 “carte” to G. D.
Deshayes and on p. 444 to Gérard Paul Deshayes (1795–1875). This is an error, as is seen when
one compares year of birth with first date of publication. His works apparently are restricted to
zoology, especially to malacology, starting about 1823. The 1801 “carte” is ascribed to G. P.
Deshayes by Pritzel (no. 2498 in 1851 edition and no. 2181 in the 1872 edition), and also by J.
Decaisne in the catalogue of the Jussieu library (op. cit. nos. 1038 and 1590). Possibly the author
is the father of the malacologist.
This book was accompanied by a short letter signed Aristenète, 8 Messidor An 9 (27 June 1801)
[AD 227], who was asked to forward this book to Adanson. This is recorded by Adanson on the
title page as follows: “Recu le 27 juin 1801 (8 Messidor an 9) à 11. heur. du matin de la part
d’Aristaenète (Felix Nogaret) qui étoit chargé de cette commission de …”
AD 49 DUCHESNE, [Antoine-Nicolas] (1747–1827) Essai sur l’histoire naturelle des courges
46 pp. [Paris], 1786. 12°
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Ex Lamarck’s
Encyclopédie [with]: Supplement of 18 Août 1786. Annotated.
AD 50 DUCHESNE, [Antoine-Nicolas] Essai sur l’histoire naturelle des fraisiers
46 pp. [Paris], 1786. 12°
Ex Lamarck’s Encyclopédie. Annotated.
AD 51 DUCLOS, [Pierre-Charles] (1704–1772) Considérations sur les moeurs de ce siècle
5th ed. [vi], lv, 484, [vi] pp., frontisp. Paris, Praul & Durand, 1767
Annotated. This author, member of the Académie française, uses in this book some of the
simplifications in French orthography
advocated by Adanson in his Familles des plantes, though
not necessarily knowing Adanson’s proposals.
AD 52 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, [Henri-Louis] (1700–1782) Traité de la garance et de sa
culture [2nd ed.]
vi, 131, [1] pp., 4 fold. pls., Paris, H. L Guérin & L. F. Delatour, 1765.
Collationé Adanson No. 101. A monograph of madder (Rubia) and its culture, announced in a
letter of Duhamel to Adanson [AD 192] and reviewed by him for the Académie.
AD 53 Du PETIT-THOUARS, [Louis-Marie] Aubert (1758–1831) Histoire des végétaux
recueillis sur les isles de France, la Réunion et Madagascar
Première partie: xvi, 40 p., 10 pls. n.p. 1804. 4°
Annotation: “donne par l’auteur ce 15 avril 1804.”
AD 54 Du PETIT-THOUARS, [Louis-Marie] Aubert Phytologie ou tableau général de la
botanique
176 pp., folding table, [no publisher], n.p. [probably Paris], [1811].
This book, lacking a title page, contains a “Tableau synoptique de la phytologie” and 120 pp. of
explanations and discussions.
This tableau comprised a course of 20 séances, held in the Pépinière impériale du Roule from 20
June to 3 August 1811. Other papers in this volume are:
Plan d’une histoire générale des
plantes, formée principalement de l’ouvrage de M. Adanson, intitulé Familles des plantes (pp.
120–132), and Notice historique sur les efforts que j’ai faits jusqu’à present pour publier les
matériaux que j’ai recueillis sur la botanique (pp. 133–176). This copy is inscribed to M.
[Alexandre] Adanson by Payer. The author unsuccessfully sought the place held by Adanson in
the Institut after Adanson’s death.
AD 55 ELLIS, John (1710?–1776) Description du mangostan et du fruit à pain
64 pp. 3 folded pls. Rouen, 1779. 8° [On last page]: “Approbation Adanson” dated “7 III 1778.”
4°