{"product_id":"adanson-voyage-senegal-1759-first-english-125396","title":"A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the River Gambia.","description":"The important travel work of Michel Adanson's (1727-1806) famous botanical exploits in Senegal, during which he collected tens of thousands of botanical and animal specimens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains wealthy descriptions of the natural history of St Louis, Gore Island, Podor, and the Gambia River, as well as Tenerife and Fayal, as well as describing much of the character of Senegal. This work was supposed to accompany his giant thesis on plants which would establish his own taxonomical classification system different to that of Linnaeus. His contemporaries mocked his ideas but they heavily influenced Lamarck and early evolutionary thinking, being one of the first to use the term 'mutations' in an article in 1769.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition in English; 8vo (22 x 13.5 cm); folding map as frontispiece, a couple discreet annotations to title, armorial bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style with board corners restored, spine in six compartments with gilt red morocco lettering piece, a very good copy; xiii, [1], 337, [1] pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCox I 383; cf. Gay 2883.","brand":"ADANSON, Michel.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57677263274359,"sku":"125396","price":1168.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/125396_01.jpg?v=1793743850","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/adanson-voyage-senegal-1759-first-english-125396","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}