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ANDERS SPARRMAN (1748-1820)
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic 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, 1785. 2 volumes, 4° (298 x 235mm). Frontispiece and 9 engraved plates, folding engraved map, errata leaf. (Light off-setting of plates.) ORIGINAL GREY PAPERED BOARDS, UNCUT, backed with beige paper, original printed paper spine-labels (spines chipped and split but firm), modern felt-lined buckram box.
EXCELLENT COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION with unique notices of James Cook's second voyage. Sparrman was Professor of Zoology at Upsala studying the natural history of South Africa when he met Cook at Table Bay in 1772. Cook was on his second circumnavigation, in Resolution and Adventure and Johann Forster engaged Sparrman as assistant naturalist. He sailed with Cook for two years, revisiting Tasman's and de Quiros' discoveries in Australasia en route to New Zealand, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic in search of 'Terra Australis'. When he joined the expedition in 1772, Sparrman wrote that 'the southern continent had taken hold of my imagination'. They crossed the Antarctic Circle in December, 1773. His account of the voyage is short but it contains material not published elsewhere by Cook or Forster, including a hair's-breadth escape from collision of the two ships and shocking details on ship's food and stores. He returned to the Cape and the majority of this work describes the natural history of that region and his expedition into the interior. Hill 1615; Beddie 1276; Rosove 316; Kropelien 1220; Hocken 25; Mendelssohn II, 414. (2)
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic 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, 1785. 2 volumes, 4° (298 x 235mm). Frontispiece and 9 engraved plates, folding engraved map, errata leaf. (Light off-setting of plates.) ORIGINAL GREY PAPERED BOARDS, UNCUT, backed with beige paper, original printed paper spine-labels (spines chipped and split but firm), modern felt-lined buckram box.
EXCELLENT COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION with unique notices of James Cook's second voyage. Sparrman was Professor of Zoology at Upsala studying the natural history of South Africa when he met Cook at Table Bay in 1772. Cook was on his second circumnavigation, in Resolution and Adventure and Johann Forster engaged Sparrman as assistant naturalist. He sailed with Cook for two years, revisiting Tasman's and de Quiros' discoveries in Australasia en route to New Zealand, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic in search of 'Terra Australis'. When he joined the expedition in 1772, Sparrman wrote that 'the southern continent had taken hold of my imagination'. They crossed the Antarctic Circle in December, 1773. His account of the voyage is short but it contains material not published elsewhere by Cook or Forster, including a hair's-breadth escape from collision of the two ships and shocking details on ship's food and stores. He returned to the Cape and the majority of this work describes the natural history of that region and his expedition into the interior. Hill 1615; Beddie 1276; Rosove 316; Kropelien 1220; Hocken 25; Mendelssohn II, 414. (2)
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