Anders Sparrman - "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" - 1785 - James Cook

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

-By Anders Sparrman 

-Published in London by G. G. and J. Robinson

-1785

-2 volumes complete in quarto (28x22m approx)

-Collation: xxviii + 368; viii + 356 + (1) pp.

-Complete with Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, and 9 plates. 

-Contemporary calf rebacked with modern spine. Corners bumped, toning to some pages and marks and tears. Overally very good.

This is the first English edition of Sparrman’s celebrated account of Cook’s second voyage, with important additional zoological plates not present in the Swedish edition. A pupil of Linnaeus, Sparrman joined Johann Reinhold Forster on the Resolution (1772–75) and here provides both a naturalist’s observations and one of the earliest scientific descriptions of the Cape interior, alongside a vivid narrative of the voyage south towards the Antarctic and through the Pacific. This work is a cornerstone of South African and Pacific voyages.