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Francois Le Vaillant: Travels into the Interior of Africa via the Cape of Good Hope, Volume II (Van Riebeeck Society, Thiurd series, No. 3)

Author(s):

Le Vaillant, Francois; Culpin, D J (editor and translator)

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Yes

Dust Jacket Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

–

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Historical Publications South Africa (formerly the Van Riebeeck Society)

Publication Year:

2021

Publication Place:

Cape Town, ZA

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

021529

Catalogue(s):

History – Africa and the Middle East

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Volume 2 only. xlx, 204pp. Colour plate frontispiece, with occasional further illustrations and charts in text. In brown-cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, slightly sunned over spine.

In 1780, a young Francois Vaillant, born in Suriname and raised in France, set out from Holland for the Cape to collect specimens of birds and animals from the distant and exotic region of the Cape, later becoming famous as the founder of South African ornithology, but at the time finding renown for writing of his travels and putting South Africa firmly in the minds of Europeans. Long out of print, this is a new translation of volume two of his ‘Travels’.

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