Lot n° 419
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SPARRMAN, André - Voyage au cap de Bonne-Espérance et autour - Lot 419
SPARRMAN, André - Voyage au cap de Bonne-Espérance et autour du monde avec le capitaine Cook et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres. Translated by Le Tourneur. Paris, Buisson, 1787. 2 vols. in-4, front, XXI (3) pp., 478 pp. ; (2) ff. 462 pp. folded map, 15 plates (3 folded), some ff. browned, contemporary porphyry calf, triple gilt thread on boards, spine ribbed and decorated, some epidermis, small trace of rodent.
CHADENAT 1751. First edition of the French translation of A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (1785) by the Swedish botanist Anders Sparrman (1748-1820), assistant to the naturalists Johann and Georg Forster. Contains important information on the natural history and geography of southern Africa.
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