SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). Resa Till Goda Hopps-Udden, Soedra Pol-kretsen Och Omkring Jordklotet, Samt till Hottentott-och Caffer-Landen, Aren 1772-76 . Stockholm: Anders J. Nordstroem, 1783.
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). Resa Till Goda Hopps-Udden, Soedra Pol-kretsen Och Omkring Jordklotet, Samt till Hottentott-och Caffer-Landen, Aren 1772-76 . Stockholm: Anders J. Nordstroem, 1783. 8 o (198 x 125 mm). Engraved folding map and 9 engraved folding plates. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, UNCUT; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Sparrman's great 18th-century account of South Africa. The author's narrative of his journeys and observations in South Africa and upon Captain Cook's second voyage is "perhaps the most widely read Swedish travel book written before the nineteenth century" (Kroepelien). Sparrman, a former pupil of Linnaeus, served as a tutor, interpreter and doctor in the Cape Town area of South Africa. 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). "Although TP of this edition is marked 'Foerste Delen' (i.e. vol. 1), the volume is a complete and finished whole" (Kroepelien). The other volumes did not appear until 1802 and 1818. The map depicts the Western Cape of South Africa, with an inset detail of the Cape of Good Hope. RARE, ESPECIALLY IN ORIGINAL CONDITION: according to American Book Prices Current , only three copies have sold at auction in at least thirty years, and none in wrappers. Beddie 1274; Hill 1615; Kroepelien 1218; Mendelssohn II:414; Mitchell Library Cook 1274; Rosove 315.A1, 315-1.B1, 315-2.B1; Spence 1144. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS UNCUT.
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). Resa Till Goda Hopps-Udden, Soedra Pol-kretsen Och Omkring Jordklotet, Samt till Hottentott-och Caffer-Landen, Aren 1772-76 . Stockholm: Anders J. Nordstroem, 1783.
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820). Resa Till Goda Hopps-Udden, Soedra Pol-kretsen Och Omkring Jordklotet, Samt till Hottentott-och Caffer-Landen, Aren 1772-76 . Stockholm: Anders J. Nordstroem, 1783. 8 o (198 x 125 mm). Engraved folding map and 9 engraved folding plates. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, UNCUT; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Sparrman's great 18th-century account of South Africa. The author's narrative of his journeys and observations in South Africa and upon Captain Cook's second voyage is "perhaps the most widely read Swedish travel book written before the nineteenth century" (Kroepelien). Sparrman, a former pupil of Linnaeus, served as a tutor, interpreter and doctor in the Cape Town area of South Africa. 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). "Although TP of this edition is marked 'Foerste Delen' (i.e. vol. 1), the volume is a complete and finished whole" (Kroepelien). The other volumes did not appear until 1802 and 1818. The map depicts the Western Cape of South Africa, with an inset detail of the Cape of Good Hope. RARE, ESPECIALLY IN ORIGINAL CONDITION: according to American Book Prices Current , only three copies have sold at auction in at least thirty years, and none in wrappers. Beddie 1274; Hill 1615; Kroepelien 1218; Mendelssohn II:414; Mitchell Library Cook 1274; Rosove 315.A1, 315-1.B1, 315-2.B1; Spence 1144. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS UNCUT.
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