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First sentence: L'e dition de l'Hortus Malabaricus en folio, e tant tre s rare depuis long tems, en forte qu'on ne peut l'acheter qu'a un tre s grand prix, le docteur Hill a Londres, afin de conserver cet excellent ouvrage a la posterite a un prix raisonnable, s'est determine d'en donner a ses propres depends une nouvelle edition complette en latin, en douze volumes quarto, avec plusieurs de ses additions.
At head of title: Londres, Feb. 15e, 1774.
Last three pages blank.
"Les amateurs d'histoire naturelle, qui voudroient faire l'acquisition de cette nouvelle e dition, s'addresseront a leurs respective [sic] libraires, dans les principales villes de l'Europe"--P. [1].
Includes prices.
Addressed in ms. to: Monsieur Adanson, de la Socie te royale des sciences a Paris, rue des Petits Champs, a Paris.
Two ms. letters on blank p. [1]-[2] regarding the the publication and distribution of the proposed edition, one from Michel Adanson to John Hill (dated: A Paris, 1 mars 1774), the other from Hill to Adanson (dated: Londres, ce 21 de fe vr. 1774).
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