FRANCOIS LEVAILLANT AND THE BIRDS OF AFRICA - L.C. Rookmaaker, P.J. Mundy, I.E. Glenn & E.C. Spary
Intrepid traveller, pioneering naturalist, famous author, Francois Levaillant 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.
Brenthurst Press 2004
Condition: Extremely Good, some dents on dustcover and first page creased.
MB (Birds)
Intrepid traveller, pioneering naturalist, famous author, Francois Levaillant 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.
Brenthurst Press 2004
Condition: Extremely Good, some dents on dustcover and first page creased.
MB (Birds)
Intrepid traveller, pioneering naturalist, famous author, Francois Levaillant 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.
Brenthurst Press 2004
Condition: Extremely Good, some dents on dustcover and first page creased.
MB (Birds)