Jussieu, Antoine de (1686-1758)

Discours sur les proprietez des plantes pour servir d'éclaircissement à ceux qui se plaisant dans leur recherche. Stated by Duhem, Bookseller of Montpellier, to be a copy of an unpublished MS., which he dates 'vers 1755'. It is concerned with the physiognomy of plants as connected with their medicinal uses.

c. 1755

1 volume 30 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 221/2 × 17 cm. 18th cent. paper covers.

Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).