Voyages.- Sparrman (Anders) Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et autour du Monde, avec le Capitaine Cook, 3 vol., first 8vo French edition, half-titles, folding engraved map and 15 plates, some folding, head of titles and half-titles cut away and renewed, minor worming (mostly one single worm-hole) to vol.1, affecting map and text, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, joints and spine ends repaired, 8vo, Paris, 1787. ⁂ Sparrman accompanied Cook on part of his second voyage, having been in South Africa when the ships Resolution and Adventure visited there in 1772. Johann Reinhold Forster engaged Sparrman, a Professor of zoology at Uppsala University, as assistant naturalist. Volume 1 covers his voyage with Cook while the rest of the book is largely taken up with Sparrman's travels in Africa.
Voyages.- Sparrman (Anders) Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et autour du Monde, avec le Capitaine Cook, 3 vol., first 8vo French edition, half-titles, folding engraved map and 15 plates, some folding, head of titles and half-titles cut away and renewed, minor worming (mostly one single worm-hole) to vol.1, affecting map and text, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, joints and spine ends repaired, 8vo, Paris, 1787. ⁂ Sparrman accompanied Cook on part of his second voyage, having been in South Africa when the ships Resolution and Adventure visited there in 1772. Johann Reinhold Forster engaged Sparrman, a Professor of zoology at Uppsala University, as assistant naturalist. Volume 1 covers his voyage with Cook while the rest of the book is largely taken up with Sparrman's travels in Africa.
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