ADANSON, Michel (1727-1806). Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Paris: Claude-Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1757. 4° (252 x 194mm). Folding engraved map and 19 folding plates by and after Thérèse Reboul (occasional spotting, including on title, small waterstain in outer margin of title and first c.100 pages, part of blank margin of map at top and bottom of map torn away, map with clean small tear, a few leaves a little browned or stained). Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, spine decorated gilt in compartments, lettering-piece (joints splitting but cords firmly holding, head and tail of spine chipped, waterstain on covers, rubbed). Provenance: John Clevland, (1706-1763), naval administrator and politician (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Brunet I, 49 (note); Nissen ZBI 27.