Laurent de CHAZELLES (1724-1808), French agronomist, botanis - Lot 15

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Laurent de CHAZELLES (1724-1808), French agronomist, botanis - Lot 15
Laurent de CHAZELLES (1724-1808), French agronomist, botanist and horticulturist. He was President of the Parliament of Metz. Autograph letter signed [to Swedish botanist Carl Peter THUNBERG (1743-1828), explorer and apostle of Linné]. Metz, August 1, 1786. 3 pp. in-4. Formerly restored tear, not missing. About Thunberg's research: "Although I have the honor of knowing you only through your reputation, your immense works, and the new discoveries you have brought to botany and with which you have enriched it, I take the liberty of addressing you directly to ask you to procure for me several of your botanical works. [...] Mr Herman, professor of botany at Strasbourg [the naturalist Jean Hermann (1738-1800)] sent me your first five quires of Nova genera beginning with Galopina and ending with Phormium p.93. De Vegetabilibus suecanis 1st section of 36 pages. Planta Aphyteia. De Erica. De Protea. De Ixia. De Gladiolo. Observationes et experimenta. De Iride & [...]". On his translation of the Dictionnaire des jardiniers et des cultivateurs by Philippe Miller (1691-1771), gardener and specialist in exotic plants. "I have just given the public a translation of the Dictionnaire anglois des Jardiniers by the famous Miller [published in Brussels by Le Francq, 1786], a work I undertook only to instruct myself and my gardeners, to whom I entrusted a prodigious quantity of indigenous and exotic plants [Chazelles had exceptional greenhouses filled with the rarest plants built at Lorry-devant-le-Pont, near Metz]; but I was forced to have it printed. I have undertaken to give a supplement of all the plants not found in this dictionary, with their descriptions and cultivation, an immense work which will form a dictionary of ten to twelve volumes in 4° [...]. About Thunberg's Plantes du Japon and his Supplément au dictionnaire des jardiniers [...] de Miller à venir (Metz, Claude Lamort, 1789-1790): "In the supplement, which is already well advanced, I find myself forced to leave under the simple name of Murray [the Swedish botanist Johan Andreas Murray (1740-1791)] a quantity or, better said, the totality of your plants from Japan, whose description you have given in manuscript, and many others included in LINNÉ's supplement, and which are only indicated under your name [...]".
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