de Landen van den Zuidpool, en Rondom de Waereld; doch voornaamlijk in de Landen der Hottentotten en Kafferen; in de jaaren 1772 tot 1776 gedaan door Andreas Sparman (sic), met eene Voorreede en Aantekeningen van den heer George Forster.
2 volumes, 796 pages continuously paginated , 63 pages index , 2 pages of the list of plates, frontispiece in volume I, 12 engraved folding plates, large folding map – split in half along the central fold, old half sprinkled leather with title labels on the spines – the leather is worn along the edges and splitting at the top and bottom of the spine of volume I, some light foxing and browning, complete with the half title pages.
\'The edition published in Leyden in 1787 is clearly a translation of the German edition of 1784, being also edited by George Forster and having the second Hippopotamus plate peculiar to that edition.
Anders Sparrman (1748-1820), a Swedish doctor and naturalist, travelled to South Africa in early 1772. After several months\' travel and research he was invited to join the company of Captain James Cook, then on his second voyage, and sailed for the Pacific in November of the same year. Sparrman returned to the Cape in 1775 and continued his studies both biological and ethnological, taking a large collection back to Sweden with him in 1776.\' A.M. Lewin Robinson, Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library, volume 1, number 2, December 1946.
Te Leyden, Bij Sam. en Joh. Luchtmans, en Te Amsterdam : Bij M. de Bruijn, 1787
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