Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [left] Llithi. [right] Lucuma.
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Accession number:
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09960
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Record number:
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09960-23
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JCB call number:
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E714 F426h
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Image title:
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[left] Llithi. [right] Lucuma.
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[Pierre Giffart]
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Image date:
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1725
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Image function:
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plate XXIII [23]; part 2, following p. [76]
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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19.2 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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14.4 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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24.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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18.3 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Latin
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Description:
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[left] Llithi tree with leaves and fruit. [right] Lucuma tree with its leaves.
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Source creator:
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Feuillée, Louis, 1660-1732
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Source Title:
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[Journal des observations physiques, mathématiques et botaniques. Selections] Histoire des plantes medecinales qui sont le plus en usage aux royaumes de l'Amerique meridionale, du Perou & du Chily, composée sur les lieux par ordre du Roy, dans les années 1709. 1710. & 1711.
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Source place of publication:
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[A Paris]
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Source publisher:
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[rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre Giffart]
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Source date:
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1725
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notes:
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Sir William Jackson Hooker in his The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage, London, 1841, p. 16 contends that much confusion has been caused by the engraving of the names of the species in this plate under the wrong images. The Llithi, litre, or Lithraea caustica tree causes extreme swelling of the skin when people allergic to its secretions are exposed to them. It is native to central Chile. Lucuma is probably Pouteria lucuma, a fruit tree native to the Andean region.Feuillée, a member of the order of Minims, worked with Jacques Cassini as a hydrographer and later made trips using his knowledge of currents, astronomy, and botany to the Caribbean, Peru, and Chile.Detached copy from v. 2 and [3] of the author's Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, Paris, 1714-1725. Imprint for this part taken from the title page of vol. [3] of the author's Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques. Paris, 1725.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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References:
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http://bodd.cf.ac.uk/BotDermFolder/ANAC-2.html; http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropView?id=8912 (Nov. 2008)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Botany--South America
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--South America
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Subject headings:
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Medicinal plants
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Subject headings:
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Lithraea
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Subject headings:
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Lucuma
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