SPARRMAN, ANDERS. 1747-1820.R

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.... London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1785.

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.... London: G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1785.
2 volumes. 4to (295 x 230 mm). Engraved folding map, 10 engraved plates. Original gray boards, rebacked to style with original labels on spine, uncut. Corners bumped, light spotting, approximately 35 x 40 mm square section of margin torn from page 185, volume I.
Provenance: John Cracroft (1748-1821, Hackthorn Hall, Lincolnshire, bookplate); Quentin Keynes (his sale, Christies, 7 April, 2004 lot 329).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, RARE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Anders Sparrman, a Swedish physician and naturalist, visited the Cape in 1772 where he joined Cook's voyage to the Antarctic Ocean. He returned to the Cape in 1775, traveling extensively in Kaffraria for the next year. Hill 1616; Rosove 316.A1; Spence 1146.