VOYAGE DE MONSIEUR LE VAILLANT DANS L'INTERIEUR DE L'AFRIQUE
par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance: nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée par l'auteur; ornée de vingt figures en taille-douce, dont huit n'avoient pas encore paru
- Published:
- De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, Paris, AN VI 1798
- Stock number:
- 12802
- Category:
- Exploration and Travel
New Edition: I. xxxii, 383. II. 403 pages, 20 engraved plates - some folding, half-title pages, quarter brown leather with red title labels on the spines -the leather is frayed at the top and bottom of the spines, marbled paper sides worn at the corners, bottom corners of pages 226 to 261 in volume I stained affecting one of the fold plates, otherwise the contents are bright, sprinkled edges, a very good copy.
Ogilvie (J.H.) A Bibliography of Le Vaillant's Voyages and Oiseaux d'Afrique (JPL 1962), Number 12, page 11.
An important edition because it contains Le Vaillant’s final revisions and additions and volume II contains the suppressed plate of Hottentote a Tablier (or Apron - The specific anatomical feature being described is the elongated labia minora.) Publishers often omitted the plate entirely, or censors would physically scratch out or cover the specific anatomical feature on the plate with ink, particularly in copies intended for less scholarly audiences or libraries.
AN VI (or Year VI of the French Republic) 1798
8vo (205 x 130 mm)