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.
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.
