cover image: Histoire naturelle du Sénégal : coquillages : avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53 / par M. Adanson ... ; ouvrage orné de figures

Histoire naturelle du Sénégal : coquillages : avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53 / par M. Adanson ... ; ouvrage orné de figures

1757

Carte generale du Senegal, dated 1756, is unnumbered plate. Woodcut title vignette (type ornament), head- and tail-pieces, initials. Includes index. Errata: p. [7], first paging group. Signatures: pi⁴ A-Z⁴ 2A⁴(-2A4) a-m⁴, ²A-2L⁴ 2M². Also available online. Elecresource SCNHRB has two copies. SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013487178) inscribed on front free endpaper: Henderson collection. SCNHRB c. 1 has the bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. SCNHRB c. 1 bound in black library buckram, title in white on spine. SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013487210) has stamped on t.p. verso: Bibliotheca Ducalis Gothana; Duplum Bibl. Duc. Goth. SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate of William Healey Dall. SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in sprinkled sheepskin, title in gilt within red leather spine label, red sprinkled edges; housed in a cardboard drop-back box.
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Authors

Adanson, Michel 1727-1806, Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI, Bibliotheca Ducalis Gothana DSI

Dates
1757
Format
[8], 190, xcvi, 275, [1] p., 19 [i.e. 20] folded leaves of plates : ill. (etchings), map ; 26 cm. (4to)
Place Discussed
Senegal
Provider
Smithsonian Institution
Published in
Senegal
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/f466fbca29f2d40653de398d0461b994

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