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Voyage [- Second voyage [...]] [...] dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 et 85 [1783, 84 et 85]. 5 vol., 8vo; 12 & 22 pl. (text n.c., occ. normal age-toning). - Levaillant's first and second Cape travels. As a gunner's mate for the Dutch East India Company from 1780 to 1785, Levaillant was able to study the bird and animal life in their natural habitat, returning with over 2000 specimens of birds, insects, mammals and plants. Complete with 12 pl. (enriched with a 2nd copy of pl. 4) representing topography, natives, fauna and flora in the 1st part and 22 pl. in the 2nd. - Ref. Cp. Gay 3118 (1st ed.).
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