ADANSON Michel. Famille des plantes. Paris, Barrois,... Lot 1

ADANSON Michel. Famille des plantes. Paris, Barrois, 1763 ; 2 vol. in-8 of [2] ff., CCCXXV and 190 p. ; [1] f., 24 p. ; [2] ff, 640 p., 1 folded plate, contemporary bindings in brown calf, spines decorated with gilt designs. First edition of this CAPITAL WORK, THE FIRST TO PROPOSE A LOGICAL BASIS FOR THE NATURAL CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS. Accompanied by a large engraved and folded plate, the work begins with a with a large engraved folding plate, the work begins with a "preface istorike on the state of the botanike" with a new spelling. COPY BEARING ON THE TITLE AN INSCRIPTION RECALLING THE GIFT OF THE COPY TO ANOTHER ANOTHER GREAT NATURALIST, THE GENEVA PHILOSOPHER CHARLES BONNET. he had published a few years earlier a a few years earlier he had published a work on the use of leaves in which he anticipated the evolutionary theories of lamarck.