Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. H.J. Jansen et compe, printer.

Description

1. 3 v. : ill.; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. Bookplates (Provenance)
2. Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
3. Africa, Southern > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
4. South Africa > Description and travel > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

1. Bookplates (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare 916.8-L (Le Vaillant, F. Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique)

Note

1. Vol. 1.: [2], xliv, 304, [2] p., V leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [4], 403, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 3: [4], 525, [3] p., XI-XVIII leaves of plates (see note.)
2. The plates in vol. 2 are not numbered, and plate XI in vol. 3 is repeated; the total number of plates is 22: Plates I-V (5 total) in vol. 1, [8] unnumbered plates in vol. 2, Plates XI, XI-XVIII (9 total) in vol. 3.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

1. with the bookplate in all volumes: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Le Vaillant, François, 1753-1824.

Title

1. Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance : dans les années 1783, 84 et 85 / par F. LeVaillant.

Imprint

1. A Paris : Chez H.J. Jansen et compe, imprimeurs-libraires, place du Muséum, L'an 3 de la République, une et indivisible. [1795]

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 5820

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 916.8-L (accession nos. B526844, B526864-B526865) with the bookplate in all volumes: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Copy in Sc Rare 916.8-L vol. 1 missing p. [iii]-vi ("Épitre dédicatoire au citoyen Varon" and "Préface") NN

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Added author

1. H.J. Jansen et compe, printer.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 18019670 //r36

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 916.8-L (Le Vaillant, F. Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique)