[Rarebooks] FS: Sparrman 1786 Travels in South Africa with Map & Plates

[Charles Agvent]

SPARRMAN, Andrew. 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 Caffres, From the Year 1772, to 1776. 
London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786. Second Edition. Two quarto (8" x 
10") volumes bound in later half calf leather and boards with morocco 
spine labels: xxviii, 368; viii, 356 pages. Translated from the Swedish. 
Illustrated with a large folding map and 10 plates depicting South 
African scenes, natives, and geography. Sparrman, botanist and disciple 
of Linnaeus, traveled early in his adult life as a surgeon on a Royal 
Swedish East India Company ship to Canton via the Cape of Good Hope. He 
later accompanied Captain James Cook on his Second Voyage, as assistant 
to the naturalist Johann Georg Forster, recounted briefly in this work 
which is primarily an account of his 1775 expedition, considered to be 
the most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of 
people residing in it to date. He made the first study of the Bushmen. 
Light, scattered foxing, heaviest to title pages, each of which has the 
name "Commodore Elliot" in ink at the top; map with some staining and 
several tears with no loss. Bindings firm but leather rubbed. Very Good. 
(#021509)     $1,500

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