FOLLIE Adrien Jacques Mémoire d’un francois qui sort de l’esclavage.

Playfair 302 (erroneous date 1685) ; not in Gay. See Boucher de la Richarderie IV, 74 (only the second edition 1792). 

First edition, very rare, of the account of the captivity of Adrien Jacques Follie (1746-1803), an administrative officer in the colonies, particularly in Africa. His vessel ‘Les Deux Amis’, bound for Senegal, was wrecked on 17 January 1784 off the coast of Morocco at Cape Num. The crew and some passengers were captured by Moors for 3 months in Mogador (Essaouira).

“A la suite de la narration touchante de ses malheurs, [Follie] a donné un précis exacte des moeurs, des usages et des opinions des peuplades errantes dans le désert de Sahara, et la description de Bildulgerid” (Boucher de la Richarderie, IV, p. 74).

Broad margined copy.

[Bound with : [SAAS, Jean]. Lettre d’un professeur de Douay à un professeur de Louvain sur le Dictionnaire historique-portatif de l’abbé Ladvocat. Douay, Jacques-François Swerts, 1762. 119 p. 

Barbier II, 1162.

First edition. Abbé Jean Saas (1704-1774), born in Rouen, was a historian and bibliographer. The Lettre sur le dictionnaire occupies the first 72 pages and is followed by the Lettre… sur l’Encyclopédie. It contains remarks or rather criticisms on the veracity of the articles on geography, mythology and bibliography detailed in the first volume of Diderot & d’Alembert’s famous Encyclopédie.

Slight waterstain at the foot of the last quire. Joints partly split.