VOYAGE AU CAP DU BONNE-ESPÉRANCE ET AUTOUR DU MONDE

Avec le Capitaine Cook

Et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots

Par André Sparrman, Docteur en Médecine, de l'Académie des Sciences, et Directeur du Cabinet royal d'Histoire naturelle de Stockholm.

Avec Cartes, Figures et Planches en taille douce.

Traduit par M. Le Tourneur

First French edition in three volumes published at the same time as the 2 volume quarto edition. 3 volumes, I. xxxii, 389, (i errata). II. 366, (i errata). III. 366, (i errata), (iii Approbation & Privelege du Roi) pages, folding engraved frontispiece in volume I, large folding map of the Cape, 15 folding engraved plates (all the same and the same size as in the quarto edition), half title pages in volumes 2 & 3, full contemporary calf with gilt ruling on the upper covers marbled endpapers, bookplate on the front paste-down endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, a very good set.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol. 2 page 414 -5. On his arrival at the Cape on January10, 1772, Sparrman had only the small sum of twenty-five rix dollars in his possession, but the kindness of his reception and the hospitality of the colonists enabled him to pursue his researches and his expenses on his short expeditions were defrayed by the Swedish East India Company. About the latter end of the year, the English Exploring Expedition under Captain Cook visited Table Bay, and Sparrman was invited to accompany it and he sailed in the Resolution on November 22, 1772. He did not return to South Africa until March 1775, when he determined to make an expedition into the interior with a friend named Immelman, and they made a start on July 25, the journey being extended to April, 1776. They penetrated through Kaffararia as far as 'Bruntjes Hoogte,' and the narrative of their travels is interesting and instructive, and is described by Mr Theal as the 'most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of people residing it' that had been published in the eighteenth century. Sparrman died at Stockholm in 1820 at the age of 73; his work, originally written in Swedish, was translated and published in French, English and German and went through several editions.'