Sparrman’s voyage, English edition, 1785

Anders Sparrman:

A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World: but chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Chaffres, from the year 1772 to 1776. […] Translated from the Swedish original. 1-2.

London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1785. 4to. (27 x 21 cms.) XXVIII + 368; + VIII + 356 pp. + engraved frontispiece landscape plate + 9 engraved plates. - NB: Without the folding map.

Contemporary tree calf, a little stained and worn, insignificant wormtrail to upper margin of a few leaves. Title with a few annotations dated 1812 in ink and pencil, occasional neat marginal annotations by the same hand, in several cases on the plates. Extra blank leaf with handwritten dates of Thunberg’s and Sparrman’s journeys inserted after the preliminaries of part one; 4 extra leaves bound at end with annotations about the fauna of South Africa. With an extra engraved plate, ”The Deer of the Cape of Good Hope” from the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1767, and a drawing of a ”Camelopard”.

Bibliotheca Polynesiana 1220. First English edition of Sparrman’s voyage. The Swedish original was published in 1783-1818.

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