Maison rustique, à l'usage des habitans de la partie de la France équinoxiale, connue sous le nom de Cayenne.

8vo: [6]-211-[5] pp.: 7 pl. (very occ. foxing, stain on 1st pl.).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-orn. flat spine, red edges.

Very rare unique edition of a book for the use of colonists in French Guiana. It gives i.a. recipies and how to use certain sorts of food (manioc flour, fruits, cachiri - intoxicating alcoholic drink prepared from manioc -, cacao...), information on "moyens de voiturer ses marchandises", factories (sugar, indigo, cotton...), animals, hunting and fishing, slavery, etc., and with a plant and tree dictionary detailing a.o. their medical purposes. Illustrated with 7 fold. plates. Bruletout de Préfontaine († 1787) was a Colonel of infantry, commander of the Kourou district and in 1776 named commander of the norther part of French Guiana.
Bound with, as usually: [La Salle de l'Etang, Simon Philibert de] - Dictionnaire galibi [...]. Ibid. First edition of this Galibi dictionary, with an essay on the grammar by the agronomist La Salle (1700?-1765), adviser to the Presidial Court of Reims. The Galibi, now Carib or Kari'nja, was a language spoken by the Kalina people mostly in Guianas, Brazil and Venezuela.
Ref. Leclerc 1538. - Sabin 65038. - Wellcome IV:432. - Barbier I:974 (Dictionnaire). - Quérard, Sup. Litt., I:961 (id.).