![LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824). Voyage ... dans l'interieur de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Chez Déterville, [1795]. [and:] – Second voyage ... dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris: H.J. Jansen, [1796].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0279_001(levaillant_francois_voyage_dans_linterieur_de_lafrique_par_le_cap_de_b075636).jpg?w=1)
![LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824). Voyage ... dans l'interieur de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Chez Déterville, [1795]. [and:] – Second voyage ... dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris: H.J. Jansen, [1796].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0279_000(levaillant_francois_voyage_dans_linterieur_de_lafrique_par_le_cap_de_b102542).jpg?w=1)
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LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824). Voyage ... dans l'interieur de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Chez Déterville, [1795]. [and:] – Second voyage ... dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris: H.J. Jansen, [1796].
Very handsome large-paper issues of two of the most influential 18th-century works on Africa, with the suppressed plate present. A Dutch Guiana-born naturalist, explorer, ornithologist, and author, Levaillant was sent by the Dutch East India Company on two expeditions through South Africa in the 1780s. Upon his return he published two thrilling – and at points shockingly explicit – accounts, involving extensive dealings with local tribes, battles with rival colonists, and encounters with exotic animals. The texts were accompanied by engravings of the tribes and their camps, landscapes across territory, wildlife and plants, as well by a large folding map of South Africa indicating the routes of Levaillant's expeditions. The plate which was later suppressed depicts a nude Hottentot woman. The works became an immediate sensation with a European public hungry for tales of African adventure, and within six years of their publication had gone into twelve editions in nine languages. The volumes' influence in shaping European consciousness of the region was considerable, and today Levaillant is reckoned as a founding figure of Afrikaner culture. Mendelssohn I, 889-892; Nissen ZBI 2480, 2482.
2 works bound in 3 volumes, large folio (440 x 290mm). Second edition of first work, first edition of the second work. 41 engraved plates, each in two states, one printed in colours and finished by hand, the other uncoloured, by Boutelou, Bovinet, A.F. Coiny, C. Fessard, Hulk, and Mariage, large engraved folding map of South Africa by Perriex after Levaillant, with routes travelled in colour(folding map with some light creasing, occasional scattered faint spotting and browning, text leaf S in vol. III with marginal chip due to paper flaw). Uniform contemporary French straight-grained red morocco, elaborate gilt borders composed of scrolls, roll-tools and multiple fillets with foliate cornerpieces and small bird tools, gilt spines tooled with sunbursts, gilt edges, by Bozerian, signed at the foot of vol. I (corners slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: W. Harrison (bookplates) – Sir Alfred Lane Beit (bookplates).
Very handsome large-paper issues of two of the most influential 18th-century works on Africa, with the suppressed plate present. A Dutch Guiana-born naturalist, explorer, ornithologist, and author, Levaillant was sent by the Dutch East India Company on two expeditions through South Africa in the 1780s. Upon his return he published two thrilling – and at points shockingly explicit – accounts, involving extensive dealings with local tribes, battles with rival colonists, and encounters with exotic animals. The texts were accompanied by engravings of the tribes and their camps, landscapes across territory, wildlife and plants, as well by a large folding map of South Africa indicating the routes of Levaillant's expeditions. The plate which was later suppressed depicts a nude Hottentot woman. The works became an immediate sensation with a European public hungry for tales of African adventure, and within six years of their publication had gone into twelve editions in nine languages. The volumes' influence in shaping European consciousness of the region was considerable, and today Levaillant is reckoned as a founding figure of Afrikaner culture. Mendelssohn I, 889-892; Nissen ZBI 2480, 2482.
2 works bound in 3 volumes, large folio (440 x 290mm). Second edition of first work, first edition of the second work. 41 engraved plates, each in two states, one printed in colours and finished by hand, the other uncoloured, by Boutelou, Bovinet, A.F. Coiny, C. Fessard, Hulk, and Mariage, large engraved folding map of South Africa by Perriex after Levaillant, with routes travelled in colour(folding map with some light creasing, occasional scattered faint spotting and browning, text leaf S in vol. III with marginal chip due to paper flaw). Uniform contemporary French straight-grained red morocco, elaborate gilt borders composed of scrolls, roll-tools and multiple fillets with foliate cornerpieces and small bird tools, gilt spines tooled with sunbursts, gilt edges, by Bozerian, signed at the foot of vol. I (corners slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: W. Harrison (bookplates) – Sir Alfred Lane Beit (bookplates).
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