Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance: dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85
Le Vaillant's travel account of his journeys in southern Africa from the Cape of Good Hope, published in French in 1790 and aimed at a general reading public of the period. The three plates show a standing Xhosa woman holding a child, a nude figure wrapped in a fur cloak labelled Hottentot, and a decorative engraved monogram tailpiece with a bound book beneath flowers. For designers, the crisp hatched engraving and ornamental cartouche suggest eighteenth-century book decoration.
