A good copy of this Senegal imprint, following the first edition of 1859. Both editions are very rare.
In the introduction, Faidherbe states that he has restricted the words in this vocabulary to those most commonly used in an interaction with a native speaker. This means that while there are very few abstract terms, all of those concerning trading or bartering are included. The dialects of Ouolof, Poular and Soninké are all represented.
Louis Léon César Faidherbe (1818-1889), was governor of Senegal between 1854-61 and 1863-65. Linguist, ethnologist, and geographer, he developed, among other things, the schools and a corps of native interpreters in Senegal. “Faidherbe has been credited with drawing up the blueprint for the eventual French conquest of the Western Sudan in the 1880s and 1890s, and was the founder in the 1850s of the legendary West African fighting force, the Tirailleurs sénégalais” (Vandervort).
OCLC locates copies at BL and BnF only. (For the first edition, copies are held at BnF Strasbourg and Berlin.)
Vandervort, B., “Lugard, and Africa” in Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Vol. 21 (1997), p.238.
