VOYAGE AU CAP DE BONNE-ESPERANCE,

: Sparrman (A.)

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et autour du monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres

 

3 vols., xxxii + 389pp., 366pp., 366pp., folding frontis., folding map, folding plates, bookplates, severe foxing to frontis., otherwise some light foxing to plates, some light foxing throughout, cloth binding, bumped at corners, minor stains, superficial tear to spine of volume 1., Paris, 1787

 

Described by Theal as the "most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of people then residing in it" that had been published in the eighteenth century (Mendelssohn, 1957). Originally written in Swedish.