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Levaillant, François
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Voyage ... dans l'Intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance: nouvelle édition ... ornée de vingt figures en taille-douce, dont huit n'avoient pas encore paru. Tome Premier [-Second]. Paris: Crapelet, chez Desray, an VI (1798). [with his:] Second Voyage ... dans l'Intérieur de l'Afrique ... pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785. Nouvelle Édition ... ornée de vingt-deux planches en taille-douce. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. Paris: Crapelet, chez Desray, an XI (1803)
Together two works in 5 volumes, 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.; 215 x 136 mm). Half-titles in each volume, 20 engraved plates in the first work (of which 7 are folding), 22 engraved plates (including 4 folding) plus large folding engraved map of South Africa in the second work, all plates in both uncolored and handcolored states ; some marginal spotting, outer edge of plate 5bis in second work frayed at outer edge without loss and clean tear touching caption in lower margin, an occasional leaf lightly browned. Uniformly bound in 19th-century green boards, gilt-stamped red morocco labels on spines; light wear to extremities.
Together two works in 5 volumes, 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.; 215 x 136 mm). Half-titles in each volume, 20 engraved plates in the first work (of which 7 are folding), 22 engraved plates (including 4 folding) plus large folding engraved map of South Africa in the second work, all plates in both uncolored and handcolored states ; some marginal spotting, outer edge of plate 5bis in second work frayed at outer edge without loss and clean tear touching caption in lower margin, an occasional leaf lightly browned. Uniformly bound in 19th-century green boards, gilt-stamped red morocco labels on spines; light wear to extremities.
Literature
Mendelssohn 892 (first work only); these editions not in Nissen ZBI
Condition
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Catalogue Note
A handsome set of Levaillant's accounts of his two expeditions through South Africa collecting zoological and botanical specimens. Most of the scientific groundwork for his magnificent Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique was accomplished on these two trips.
The plates are topographical (many scenes of his encampments), ethnographic (including two of Hottentots and other native peoples), and natural history subjects (birds, hippo, giraffe, wolf, jellyfish).