SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). 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... Translated from the Swedish original. London: for G. G. J. & J.Robinson, 1785.
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). 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... Translated from the Swedish original. London: for G. G. J. & J.Robinson, 1785. 2 volumes, 4 o (269 x 204 mm). Engraved folding map, 10 engraved plates (some minor staining). Contemporary calf (rebacked, some light rubbing). Provenance : Sanford Eastcott (early ownership signature on title). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF SPARRMAN'S ACCOUNT OF COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE. The work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster aboard Captain James Cook's Resolution from September 1772 to March 1775. Sparrman's account includes a number of details of Cook's second voyage which are not mentioned elsewhere, and the majority of the narrative concerns South Africa: "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). Beddie 1276; Conrad p.14; Mendelssohn II:414; Mitchell Library Cook 1276; Renard 1516; Rosove 316.A1 ("Scarce"); Spence 1146. (2)
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). 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... Translated from the Swedish original. London: for G. G. J. & J.Robinson, 1785.
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). 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... Translated from the Swedish original. London: for G. G. J. & J.Robinson, 1785. 2 volumes, 4 o (269 x 204 mm). Engraved folding map, 10 engraved plates (some minor staining). Contemporary calf (rebacked, some light rubbing). Provenance : Sanford Eastcott (early ownership signature on title). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF SPARRMAN'S ACCOUNT OF COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE. The work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster aboard Captain James Cook's Resolution from September 1772 to March 1775. Sparrman's account includes a number of details of Cook's second voyage which are not mentioned elsewhere, and the majority of the narrative concerns South Africa: "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). Beddie 1276; Conrad p.14; Mendelssohn II:414; Mitchell Library Cook 1276; Renard 1516; Rosove 316.A1 ("Scarce"); Spence 1146. (2)
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