Biologie - Botanik - - Ellis, John.

Biology - Botany - - Ellis, John. Description du mangostan et du fruit à pain: Le premier estimé l'un des plus délicieux, l'autre le plus utile de tous les fruits des Indes Orientales. Avec des instructions aux voyageurs pour le transport de ces deux fruits & autres substances végétales qui feroient d'une grande ressource aux habitants de nos isles de l'Inde Occidentale. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois. With 4 folded copper plates. Rouen, P. Machuel, 1779. 63 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Spine paperback. First French edition of the treatise first published in London in 1775. - Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 11807, 3rd - On the export of mangostin and the breadfruit from the South Seas for the cheap supply of British slaves working on the West Indian plantations. The plan was finally implemented in 1787 when William Bligh set sail for Tahiti on the Bounty. With over 1000 plants on board, he set sail from there in April 1789, but the voyage to the Caribbean came to an abrupt end after less than four weeks due to the mutiny on the Bounty under Christian Fletcher. - Two coppers show the fruit, the other two the shipping containers Ellis developed. - Title, two text leaf and the plates old stamped. *