An account of a voyage to the Spice-Islands, and New Guinea. / By M. P. Sonnerat, Sub-Commissary of Marine, Naturalist, Pensioner of the King, Correspondent of his Cabinet, and of the Royal Acadmey of Paris, and Associate of that of Sciences, Beaux Arts and Belles Lettres at Lyons, with notes..

"Paris: Printed M.DCC,LXXV [1775]"--Precedes imprint on t.p.

Pages: [2] 1st set and final page are blank.

Signatures: A1, B-T⁴ U⁴(-U4), a-e⁴ f⁴(-f4)

Printed on watermarked paper.

In two parts, the second containing 'Index rerum naturalium' with separate pagination and register, is in Latin.

"This is a brief abstract of the author's Voyage à la Novelle Guinée (which was published in 1776, not 1775), condensed into 77 pages. The remainder is taken up by the translator's notes and an index to the plates which were not reproduced in this abstract."--Cf. British Museum (Natural History) Library. Catalogue.

English short title catalogue, T117361

bookbinding Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.

Alexander Turnbull Library copy exhibited ; REng SONN ACCO 1781 (849) : Simple to Sumptuous: Bookbindings 1450 to the Present. 5 April - 19 July 2008

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Binding: navy crushed goatskin boards, gold tooled panel design inlaid with brown on upper and lower covers; upper cover has central motif with nautical theme, inlaid with green, brown and light blue; spine gold tooled with decorated gold compartments with shell motif, raised bands, with gold tooled title; gold tooled edges, ornate gold tooled turn-ins with ruled geometric pattern; brown watered silk endpapers; top text edge gilt; issued in blue linen box, with white fleece liners ; binder's stamp: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London". Provenance: bookplate of Alex H. Turnbull on front flyleaf "bound in 1913." Acc. 849.

Digital image available: bookbinding, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.