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Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-Espérance. Paris: Desray, An VI [1798]. [With:] – Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. Paris: Crapelet, chez Desray, 1803.
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LEVAILLANT, François (1753-1824)
Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-Espérance. Paris: Desray, An VI [1798]. [With:] – Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. Paris: Crapelet, chez Desray, 1803.
Fine set of the new edition with plates in two states of the two trips that Levaillant made to Africa between 1780 and 1785, bound in the original boards. The first Voyage contains 20 plates of indigenous people, plants, animals and African landscapes, including many of Levaillant's encampments; 8 of these plates were not in the original 1790 edition. The second is illustrated with 22 plates and a large folded map of South Africa. Mendelssohnn I, 892 (first work only).
2 works in 5 volumes, octavo (212 x 139mm). Half-titles. 42 engraved plates in hand-coloured and plain states, of which 12 folding, large folding engraved map (map lightly spotted and stained, title to vol. II coming loose, small marginal chip to II.V3, offset imprint of a now lost specimen of a very large butterfly on III.N3v-4r, coloured plate V bis in vol. III repaired at fore- and lower edge affecting one letter in caption, variable light spotting throughout). Uniform ?publishers green glazed-paper boards, gilt red morocco spine labels, uncut (vol. I with front hinge cracked and front board loose, vol.V with cracked hinge between half-title and title leading to short tear in title, extremities faintly rubbed); contained in modern calf-backed clamshell boxes. Provenance: Antoine-Anne de Carrère de Saint-Béar (b.1754; ink ownership inscriptions) – Jacques Levy (no sign of provenance, but his sale Sotheby's New York, 20 April 2012, lot 203).
Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-Espérance. Paris: Desray, An VI [1798]. [With:] – Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. Paris: Crapelet, chez Desray, 1803.
Fine set of the new edition with plates in two states of the two trips that Levaillant made to Africa between 1780 and 1785, bound in the original boards. The first Voyage contains 20 plates of indigenous people, plants, animals and African landscapes, including many of Levaillant's encampments; 8 of these plates were not in the original 1790 edition. The second is illustrated with 22 plates and a large folded map of South Africa. Mendelssohnn I, 892 (first work only).
2 works in 5 volumes, octavo (212 x 139mm). Half-titles. 42 engraved plates in hand-coloured and plain states, of which 12 folding, large folding engraved map (map lightly spotted and stained, title to vol. II coming loose, small marginal chip to II.V3, offset imprint of a now lost specimen of a very large butterfly on III.N3v-4r, coloured plate V bis in vol. III repaired at fore- and lower edge affecting one letter in caption, variable light spotting throughout). Uniform ?publishers green glazed-paper boards, gilt red morocco spine labels, uncut (vol. I with front hinge cracked and front board loose, vol.V with cracked hinge between half-title and title leading to short tear in title, extremities faintly rubbed); contained in modern calf-backed clamshell boxes. Provenance: Antoine-Anne de Carrère de Saint-Béar (b.1754; ink ownership inscriptions) – Jacques Levy (no sign of provenance, but his sale Sotheby's New York, 20 April 2012, lot 203).
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