FRANCOIS LE VAILLANT AND THE BIRDS OF AFRICA

The Brenthurst Press, Johannesburg, 2004.

Hardcover with D/J. Jacket and book condition: Very Good.

No inscriptions.

Size: 4to 31cmm x 24.5cm.

484 pages with bibliography and index, over 250 illustrations in colour including 58 full page plates of birds, folding map in pocket in the back cover, brown cloth, top edge gilt, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

'Intrepid traveller, pioneering naturalist, famous author, François Levaillant (1753-1824) was a celebrity in his own lifetime. The colourful accounts of his travels in southern Africa in the 1780s were widely read in seven languages. His sumptuous bird books, published in a golden age of natural history book production led by the French, recorded for posterity his extensive bird collections.'Editor's note.

The Brenthurst Press Third Series No. 5, one of an edition limited to 1025 copies 850 bound in cloth.

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