Lot 71. SPARRMAN, Anders.

Sparrman’s 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 (Cook’s Second Voyage).

First French edition. 3 vols, 8vo, xxxii, 388; [4], 366; [4], 363 pp., large folding engraved map, 16 engraved plates. Contemporary French calf-backed marbled boards, corners and edges worn, large folding map with old repairs to verso, a bit creased and stained, a good set.

[Beddie, 1279; cf. Mendelssohn II, 414; cf. Rosove, 315 & 316; cf. Hill, 1614-1616 (for Swedish and English editions). ]