Translated from the French of M. le Vaillant.
Illustrated with twelve elegant copper-plates.
2 volumes: I. xii, 395; II. 403 pages, 12 engraved plates – 2 folding (including the plate at page 350 in volume II of ‘A Hottentot woman’ which is sometime referred to as the ‘suppressed’ plate), a late nineteenth century folding chromolithographic of Victoria Falls has been tipped in opposite page 82 in volume I, no half title pages as called for, ‘Directions to Binder’ at page 404 in volume II, contemporary full calf sides rebacked and with leather title labels. The old leather sides are worn along the edges, the contents are crisp and free of foxing.
Ogilvie (J.H.) A Bibliography of Le Vaillant’s Voyages and Oiseaux d’Afrique, Johannesburg Public Library 1982, no.24 (page 18), listed as the second London issue.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (2154 x 135 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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