First English edition. Folding map. 8vo. Contemporary calf, joints slightly rubbed, rebacked. MISSING A2 supplied in facsimile. xiii, 337pp. London: Pr. for J. Nourse and W. Jonhston[sic], 1759.
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.
