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Sparrman, Anders (1748-1820) A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World.
Dublin: for Messrs. White, Cash, & Byrne, 1785.
First Dublin edition (the London edition also printed in 1785 is the first in English), translated from Sparrman's Swedish-language original, Resa till Goda Hopps-udden, two octavo volumes, I: A8, a8, b2, B-Z8, Aa-Bb8, Cc4, one full-page illustration, two folding; II: [pi]2, A4, B-Z8, Aa-Bb8 (Bb8 blank and present), illustrated with one folding map and seven full-page illustrations; bound in uniform contemporary full leather, in need of resewing and restoration, 8 1/4 x 5 in. (2)
ESTC T129107; Beddie 1276; Conrad p. 14; Mendelssohn II: 414; http://estc.bl.uk/T129107.
"The author relates many incidents illustrating the hospitality of the Dutch farmers and their dense ignorance of matters outside their own country, and he makes allusions to the cruelty of the treatment of the slaves by the lower classes of the colonists. He frequently draws attention to the inaccuracies to be met with in [Peter] Kolbe[n]'s account of the Cape, [first published in 1719,] and throws considerable doubt on the veracity of many of his statements." (Mendelssohn) Sparrman's account also includes information related Cook's second voyage not published elsewhere.
