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Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Tome premier. (second.)
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LE VAILLANT, François (1753--1824)
Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Tome premier. (second.)
Paris: chez Leroy, libraire, 1790.
2 vols ; 20.0 cm. (8º)
I: xxiv, 383, [1] p., engr. frontis., [6] engr. pl. (2 fold.)
II: [2], 403, [1] p., [6] engr. pl.
Le Vaillant was a Surinam-born French traveller and naturalist who published two very popular, much-translated but somewhat fictionalised accounts of his travels in South Africa, and a number of beautifully illustrated works of ornithology. In addition to the frontispiece there are two unnumbered folded plates in vol. I and a total of nine numbered plates: I, II, and IV are in vol. I; III, V--VII, VIII and bis plate VIII are in vol. II.
Binding Early C19th 'catspaw' calf, gilt-ruled spine, red morocco labels. This is probably the 'Voyage de la Afrique 2 Vols 8vo Calf letterd' bound by Peter Low for 4s. 6d., 29 October 1805. (Spiers Box).
Reference Number 249
Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Tome premier. (second.)
Paris: chez Leroy, libraire, 1790.
2 vols ; 20.0 cm. (8º)
I: xxiv, 383, [1] p., engr. frontis., [6] engr. pl. (2 fold.)
II: [2], 403, [1] p., [6] engr. pl.
Le Vaillant was a Surinam-born French traveller and naturalist who published two very popular, much-translated but somewhat fictionalised accounts of his travels in South Africa, and a number of beautifully illustrated works of ornithology. In addition to the frontispiece there are two unnumbered folded plates in vol. I and a total of nine numbered plates: I, II, and IV are in vol. I; III, V--VII, VIII and bis plate VIII are in vol. II.
Binding Early C19th 'catspaw' calf, gilt-ruled spine, red morocco labels. This is probably the 'Voyage de la Afrique 2 Vols 8vo Calf letterd' bound by Peter Low for 4s. 6d., 29 October 1805. (Spiers Box).
Reference Number 249