Adanson, Michel. Histoire naturelle du Sénégal (Paris, 1757)

AUTHOR: Adanson, Michel (1727-1806)
TITLE-PAGE TRANSCRIPTION: HISTOIRE | NATURELLE | DU | SÉNÉGAL. | [double rule 133 mm.] | COQUILLAGES. | [double rule 132 mm.] | Avec la Relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les | années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53. | Par M. ADANSON, Correspondant de l'Académie Royale | des Sciences. | Ouvrage orné de Figures. | Mediis in finibus orbis, | Sol ubi: | [printer's device] | A PARIS, | Chez CLAUDE-JEAN-BAPTISTE BAUCHE, Quai des Augustins, à l'image | Sainte Genevieve, & à Saint Jean dans le Desert. | [double rule 84 mm.] | M. DCC. LVII. | Avec Approbation & Privilége du Roi.
COLLATION: 26 cm. 4º: p⁴ A-Z⁴ 2A² -m^{4 2}A-²Z⁴ 2A-2K⁴ 2L² c⁴ [$2 signed] pp. [8], 1-190, xcvi, 275, [2]
CONTENTS: p. [i]. Title-page. p. [iii]. Dedication. p. [v]. Extrait des registres de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. p. [vii]. Fautes a corriger. p. [viii]. Avertissement. p. 1. Voyage au Senegal. p. i.. Histoire des coquillages. p. iii. Préface. p. xxix. Définitions des parties des coquillages. p. lxi. Table des rapports ou des combinaisons. p. lxxxix. Table chronologique des auteurs. p. 1. Famille premiere. Des limaçons univalves. p. 82. Section II. Des limaçons operculés. p. 196. Section premier. Des conques bivalves. p. 260. Section II. Des conques multivalves.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Opposite p. 1. Carte General du Senegal, corrigée et augmentée du plusiurs détails par Mr. Adanson correspondant de l'Acade Rle des Sc. Dressée et executée par les soins de Philippe Buache, 1756. Laurent Sculpsit. Opposite p. 268. Plate 1. La gondole, Le bulin, le coret, le pietin, le limaçon. (M. Th. Reboul. del et sc. all plates) Plate 2. Le lepas, l'ormier.Plate 3. L'yèt. Plate 4. La vis, la porcelaine. Plate 5. Le pucelage, le mantelet. p. 6. Le rouleau. Plate 7-9. La pourpre. Plate 10. Le buccin, le cerite. Plate 11. Le vermet. Plate 12. La toupie, le sabot. Plate 13. La natice. La nerite. Plate 14. L'huitre. Plate 15. Le jataron., le jambonneau. Plate 16-17. La came. Plate 18. La telline. Le petoncle. Plate 19. Le solen, La pholade.
BINDING: Brown leather binding, red leather spine label, red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers.
NOTES: Marbled lining papers. "“‘Adanson's careful examination of the soft parts of many molluscs led him to propose a classification founded principally upon anatomical characters… Fischer-Piette considers that he was also the first zoologist to employ a consistent binomial nomenclature, anticipating by one year, therefore, the publication of the tenth edition of the Systema Naturae [of Linnaeus]’ (Dance, pp. 66-68).” - Antiquariaat Junk catalogue no. 270
“One of the earliest conchological books of Africa. ‘An important landmark in the history of conchology.” (Dance. Shell collecting)” — Dieter Schierenberg, catalogue 72
“‘Adanson's first book was Histoire naturelle du Sénégal (Paris 1757). He made his first four-year scientific expedition to Senegal on behalf of the Compagnie des Indes and brought back a large group of natural history specimens; a few of these later became part of the royal collection, then under the care of Buffon. His travel journal (1757) was accompanied by a general survey of the living mollusks he had found in Senegal. His classification of mollusks was an original one; based on the anatomical structure of the living animals inside the shells, it appeared the same year as the work of Argenville, who claimed to have originated such a scheme.’ (DSB I, p. 58-59)” — Librairie Bernard Maille, catalogue Science et Médecine, 1996
REFERENCES: Nissen ZBI, 27.
PROVENANCE: George Simon, Earl of Harcourt.
KEYWORDS: 1. Mollusks--Senegal. I. Simon, George, 2nd Earl of Harcourt (1736-1809)
LOCATION: QL427.A2 1757
OTHER CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS: California Institute of Technology; UCLA; UC San Diego; UC Berkeley; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History