ADANSON (Michel).
A Voyage to Senegal, the Island of Goree and the River Gambia.
Michel Adanson (1727-1806) was 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. One of the earliest scientists to reach Senegal, he spent five years there and this work is notable for the folding map and its detailed description of the colony’s flora and fauna.
Provenance: with the armorial bookplate of Thomas Winford of Glas[s]hampton. Sir Thomas Cookes Winford 2nd Bart (1673-1744) was a member of the country elite, who inherited great fortune from two uncles. He stood as an MP for Worcestershire between 1707-1710.
Cox I, 383. cf. Gay, 2883.
