Traité de la couleur de la peau humaine en général; de celle des negres en particulier, et de la métamorphose d'une de ces couleurs en l'autre, soit de naissance, soit accidentellement. Ouvrage divisé en trois parties
A 1765 treatise on human skin colour, especially that of Black people, by the physician Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, printed in Amsterdam or Rouen and written for a learned readership. The pictures are small ornamental printer's headpieces and tailpieces in black woodcut style, with scrolling acanthus leaves, flower baskets, vines and trophies of instruments that a designer could borrow for decorative borders and vignettes.
