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SPARRMAN, ANDERS. A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, toward the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World:but chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772, to 1776. 10 engraved plates; folding engraved map. xxxvi, 395, [1]; xi, [1], 382 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 211x124 mm, contemporary tan calf, attractively rebacked, some wear to cover edges and corners; marginal stain on frontispiece, small browned area in upper outer corner of pages 196-97, and folding plates lightly offset in Volume 1, light foxing on preliminaries and dark stain in lower outer corner of R6 in Volume 2. Dublin: Messrs. White, Cash, and Byrne, 1785
first dublin edition of a translation first published the same year in London of the 1783 original in Swedish. The book describes Sparrman's travels in Southern Africa, with extensive observations on its natural history and ethnography, before and after serving as a naturalist on Captain Cook's 1772-75 second voyage. Hill 1615 (1785 London edition). Beddie 1276 (this edition).
