Fables sénégalaises
Subtitle: recueillies de l'Ouolof, et mises en vers français, avec des notes destinées a faire connaître la Sénégambie, son climat, ses principales productions, la civilisation et les moeurs des habitans
By: par M. le B[ar]on Roger, officier de la Leion-d'Honneur, ex-commandant et administrateur de Sénégal et dépendances
Publisher: Nepveu, libraire, Passage du Panorama; Firmin Didot, rue Jacob, no 24; Ponthieu, libraire, au Palais-Royal
Published: 1828
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Fables; Catalogs, Booksellers'
Notes: Attributed to Jacques-François Roger by the Cat. collectif de France online.

Verso of half-title leaf reads: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, rue Jacob, no 24.

Contains Senegalese folk tales but notes also mention the African derivation of some that also appear in the West Indies.

Cover title and bookseller's advertisement on back cover printed within ornamental borders.

Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) 1⁴ 2-24⁶

Bookseller's advertisements: back cover.

Engraved tail pieces.

Quérard III:114.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in original blue paper wrappers.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.