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hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Brown hardcover is sound with very light bumps on top and bottom edges, and lightly softened head and tail of spine. Leading corners bent on jacket and hardcover. Front inner paper hinge beginning to split. Pages are clean and tight throughout. Dust jacket has very slight signs of edge wear, and is quite scored. Profusely illustrated by diagrams, maps and tables. T. Used.

Zustand: Fair. Volumes 3 part b. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0824780663.

Hardcover. Cloth, VG; dw.

(= (Special Publication 6 of the International Association Of Sedimentologists Series). 575 pp. with numerous figures. 4to. Paperback, Oxford, Blackwell 1983.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Cape Town: Library of Parliament, 1973. First edition, 'No. 293 of an English edition limited to 2500 copies, of which Nos. 1- 250 are bound in full blue calf'. Two volumes (pp. xx, 172, plates; xiv, 181, bibliog., index, plates). Folio (31 cm) in navy blue cloth with gilt titles. The text of Volume I comprises a biographical sketch of LeVaillant by Matthys Bokhorst, an account of LeVaillant's two journeys in southern Africa by Vernon Forbes, commentaries on Le Vaillant's representation of various indigenous groups' culture, and an evaluation of LeVaillant as an ornithologist (He wasn't perfect). The text of Volume II focuses on LeVaillant's watercolours with commentary by Jurgens Meester, S. H. Scaife, and P. G. Jordaan. Bokhorst contributes remarks from the perspective of the history of art. The work includes an extensive bibliography with notes on Le Vaillant's African works by A. M. Lewin Robinson. The colour plates (about 30 cm x 20 cm), the principal feature of the work, include portraits of indigenous people as well as those of birds, giraffes, snakes, and flowering plants. They are supported by maps and other illustrations all produced to a high standard. A light scratch or two, light rubbing here and there, a worn tip, spotted top edges. Near fine binding, text and plates fine. See also our Book No. 1418, LeVaillant, Francois. Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa. By the Way of the Cape of Good Hope; in the Years 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85.