Description d'une nouvelle espèce de porc a large groin, ou sanglier d'Afrique; découvert depuis peu, & encore tout-à-fait inconnu, pris dans les contrées les plus reculées de l'Afrique, & apporté de-là dans la ménagerie de son altesse sérénissime, monseigneur le prince d'Orange et de Nassau, stadhouder héreditaire, gouverneur, capitaine géneral et amirail des Provinces Unies des Pais-Bas, &c. &c. &c.

Amsterdam, Pierre Meijer, 1767. 4to (27.3 x 21.3 cm). 13 pp. (including title page); one finely engraved plate, one blank leaf in the rear. Disbound. = Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799) was a Dutch naturalist and collection curator. In 1756 he became the director of a natural history collection started by Princess Anna (1709-1759), the English wife of the Dutch prince, William IV, Prince of Orange (1711-1754) and continued by their son William the fifth (1748-1806). Vosmaer held the post until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. Vosmaer prepared and published a series of descriptions of animals kept in Prince William V's menagerie. Many strange animals were captured and sent to the prince's menagerie by Dutch traders who roamed the world. These animals were studied by Vosmaer, who published his findings in a series of treatises, each discussing a different animal. This treatise deals with a warthog. The plate was made by the Dutch engraver Simon Fokke (1712-1784), after watercolours by the Dutch landscape painter, glass engraver, natural history illustrator and ornithologist Aert - or Aart - Schouman (1710-1792). This is the French edition, which seems to be more rare than the simultanously published Dutch edition. Coloured editions are known, but in this copy the plate is plain, as usual. A nice clean copy.