Histoire Naturelle du Senegal. Coquillages. Avec la Relation abregee d'un Voyage fait en ce Pays, pendant les annees 1749,50,51,52, & 53.
ADANSON Michel

Histoire Naturelle du Senegal. Coquillages. Avec la Relation abregee d'un Voyage fait en ce Pays, pendant les annees 1749,50,51,52, & 53.

1st edition. Two parts in one volume, the second part being devoted to the study of the shells. With 19 engraved plates, each illustrating numerous shells, and a folding map. 4to. Contemporary full speckled calf, spine gilt, but generally worn and chafed, with short splits to joints. Red title label. The interior excellent. (viii),190pp - & - (ii),xcvi,275pp. Claude-Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Paris, 1757.

£1,600.00
ADANSON Michel
Histoire Naturelle du Senegal. Coquillages. Avec la Relation abregee d'un Voyage fait en ce Pays, pendant les annees 1749,50,51,52, & 53.

The author, a French Naturalist trained by Jussieu, took the opportunity of going to the French settlement in Senegal in the service of the French East-India Company, in order to study the natural history of those parts, and became one of the earliest to do so.

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Histoire Naturelle du Senegal. Coquillages. Avec la Relation abregee d'un Voyage fait en ce Pays, pendant les annees 1749,50,51,52, & 53.
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