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Voyage de M. le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne Espérance, dans les années 1780 ... [-]85 / [François Le Vaillant].

François Levaillant · 1790 · Paris : Leroy, 1790. · 16 pictures

François Levaillant's account of his 1780–85 travels through southern Africa from the Cape of Good Hope, published in Paris by Leroy in 1790 for European readers of exploration narratives. Numbered copperplate figures show standing Khoikhoi and other African men and women in fur cloaks, beadwork and skin aprons, alongside woodcut headpieces of scrolling acanthus, lyres and still-life panels usable as ornament.

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain)