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Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera, 4to. Cuts Charles Plumier (1646-1704), Nova plantarum Americanarum genera (Paris: Jean Boudot, 1703)

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 17 (Books and Papers Relating to America)

Author/Composer:

Plumier, Charles, 1646-1704

Notes:

Listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue; lacks plates 35-40; inscribed: C.D. Delalande [or De Lalande?] mathematics 1737; with extensive annotations, some possibly in the hand of Pierre Du Simitière.

Valued at 1s 6d Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 4

"Cuts" indicates the presence of illustrations (usually engraved).

Title Information:

Nova plantarum Americanarum genera

Imprint Information:

Paris: Jean Boudot, 1703

Repository:

LCP, call no. Am 1703 Plu 486.Q.1