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 by the French surgeon Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, published in Amsterdam or Rouen and aimed at medical and scholarly readers, with a section on Black skin and how colour changes by birth or accident. The pictures are small printed ornamental headpieces and tailpieces: woodcut bands of scrolling foliage, flower baskets, and a crowned cartouche with floral sprays, useful to a designer as period borders and dividers for historical layouts.
