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LE VAILLANT, Francois.
Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique [et] Second Voyage dans l'Interieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance, dans les Annees 1783,84 et 85.
A classic on African travel, this second expedition includes important descriptions of Namaqualand, Damaralan, Bechcuanaland, and the Kalahari Desert. Le Vaillant journeyed to the Cape, for the first time during the previous decade during which he travelled to Algoa Bay and the district then known as "Bruyntes Hoogte" via Mossel Bay, returning through the "Camdeboo" country and crossing the Gamka, Buffalo, and Touws Rivers. He set off on the second journey, related here, from the place he ended the first, the route taken being to the north, and for over a year traversed the countries which later became Namaqualand, Damaraland, Bechuanaland, and the Kalahari desert. He went as far west as the fourteenth degree, and north as the Tropic of Capricorn. The work provides an exceptional account of South Africa at a time when relatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers.
- Published
- Paris: Crapelet pour Desray, [1798] & Chez H.J. Jansen et Comp...[1796-96].
- References
- Mendelssohn I, p.889; Bobins 102; Ogilvie 'Le Vaillant's voyages....12 & 36; Not in Abbey.
- Plates
- 42
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Crapelet pour Desray, [1798] & Chez H.J. Jansen et Comp...[1796-96].
- Ref
- 5124
First voyage - 2 x vols; Second voyage - 3 x vols, 5 octavo vols in total uniformly bound in contemporary full marbled calf with gilt borders and gilt to spine. All edges gilt, inner dentelles in gilt, coloured endpapers, bookplate of 'Bovet-Borel' to each front pastedown, and previous ownership MS signature to each half-title page. Plates appear in 2 states; coloured and uncoloured. Le Vaillant's account of his expeditions collected botanical and zoological specimens through South Africa. Le Vaillant was born in Dutch Guiana in 1753, and after a European education, he proceeded to Paris, where he studied Natural History. He became acquainted with Mr. Temminck, Treasurer of the Dutch East India Company, who enabled him to fulfill his ambition and make for the Cape. Coloured plates n order: First voyage. Volume 1. 1. Frontispiece. Campement dans le Pays des Grands Namaquois. 2. Vue des Montagnes du Cap de Bonne Esperance, couvertes des nuages du Sud-Est (folding plate). 3. Le Manchot Aigrette. 4. Camp a Duywen Hock riviere (folding plate). 5. Le Touraco. 6. Camp de Pampoen-Kraal (folding plate). 7. Klaas, Jeune Hottentot. 8. Camp a l'entree du Poort Grande chasse d'elephants (folding plate). 9. Camp a Jager-Kral dans le pays d'Autenquois (folding plate). 10. Camp sur les bords de la grande riviere des Poissons (folding plate). 11. Narina, Jeune Gonaquoise. First voyage. Volume 2. 12. Jeune Hottentot Gonaquol. 13. La Hottentote. 14. Le Porte Lambeau. 15. Jeune Caffre. 16. Femme Caffre. 17. Camp a une Horde de Caffres detruits (folding plate). 18. Hottentote a Tablier. 19. Girafe Male. 20. Girafe Femelle. Second voyage. Volume 1. 21. Campement sur l'habitation de J. Slaber, a Thee-Fontyn (folding plate). 22. Vue du Cap de Bonne-Esperance prise en Rade / Vue du Cap de l'Isle Robin / Montagnes du Cap vue en Mer du Cote de l'Ouest (folding playe). 23. Anhinga Male. 24. Campement au Heere Logement (olding plate). 25. Passage de la Riviere des Elephants. Second voyage. Volume 2. 26. Campement a la Hourde de Klaas Baster (folding plate). 27. Euphorbe-Concombre. 28. Tete d'Hippopotame Male / Hippopotame Femelle. 29. Tete de Girafe. 30. Camp de la Giraffe, sur le Bord de la Riviere d'Orange (folding plate). 31. Loup Tachete. 32. Grand Namaquois. 33. Grande Namaquoise. Second voyage. Volume 3. 34. Euphorbe a Cote de Melon. 35. Euphorbe a Chenilles. 36. Houzouana. 37. Houzouana (portrait). 38. Femme Houzouana (portrait). 39. Femme Houzouana. 40. Sanglier a Large Groin. 41. Le Singe Noir. 42. L'Oricou.
