8vo. 20pp. Uncut and unopened. Sewn, as issued, in original publisher's buff wrappers. Extremities a trifle creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp.

The sole edition, in original state, of a succinct biography of French natural historian Pierre Remi Willemet (1735-1808), sometime professor of botany and chemistry at the Collége de Médecine of Nancy, who undertook expeditions to Sri Lanka, Africa, and Madagascar in order to study pharmaceutical plants.