PRÉFONTAINE (Jean-Antoine Bruletout de). Maison rustique à l'usage des habitants de la partie de la France équinoxiale connue sous le nom de Cayenne. - LA SALLE DE L'ÉTANG (Simon-Philibert de)]. Dictionnaire galibi... preceded by an essay on grammar. Paris, Bauche, 1763. 2 parts in one volume in-8, marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (Binding of the period). First and only edition of this rare manual for the use of colonists in French Guiana. It is illustrated with 7 folding plates engraved on copper by Chalmandrier. This "Maison rustique de Cayenne" devotes many passages to the cultivation and preparation of food (manioc, roots, herbs and vegetables, fruit, poultry, hunting, fishing, etc.), drinks (banana wine, inhame, mahogany, etc.), the manufacture of cocoa, coffee, sugar, cotton, roucou, indigo, black slaves and Indians, etc., and ends with an important dictionary of trees and plants detailing their food and medical uses. Préfontaine was commander of the northern part of French Guiana granted to the Duc de Choiseul for the establishment of the colony of Kourou. The second part of the volume contains a remarkable French-Galibi and Galibi-French dictionary in its original edition, accompanied by an essay on the grammar of this language spoken by the Kalinagos, the Caribbean ethnic group that inhabits southern Venezuela, French Guiana and northern Brazil. From the library of Patrick Esclafer de La Rode, with bookplate. Bibliographie de la Guyane française, 215 - Vicaire, 708 - Leclerc, n°1538 - Sabin, n°65039 - INED, n°3656 bis.