Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'isle de Saint-Domingue
Subtitle: avec des figures en taille-douce
Contributors: J. D.
Publisher: Chez Gobreau, libraire, Quai des Augustins, à Saint Jean-Baptiste
Published: 1776
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre; lat
Number of pages: 374
Other titles: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de St. Domingue.
Notes: Author given as "le P. Nicolson" in the Approbation on p. 374.

Added engraved title page reads: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de St. Domingue.

Colophon reads: De l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Boudet, imprimeur du Roi.

Chapter VII, p. 365-371, includes information on Taino Indian fetishes, pottery and wood-carving; plates no. 9 and 10 give pictorial examples.

Text primarily in French with Latin botanical names.

Signatures: pi1 A-B⁸ ²A-Z⁸ 2A⁴

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Sabin 55259.

Pritzel 6695.

Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne, 7087.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:2284.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has plate numbers printed on the right hand side.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 quarter bound in contemporary calf with marbled paper boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has additional hand-colored plate bound after title page leaf, not mentioned in text; plate numbers printed on the left hand side.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: J.D.: labels pasted onto engraved title and title page leaves.