Resa till Goda Hopps-udden. English: PB 150-2020

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Titles

Resa till Goda Hopps-udden. English
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, from the year 1772, to 1776. / By Andrew Sparrman, M.D. Professor of Physic at Stockholm, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden, and Inspector of its Cabinet of Natural History. Translated from the Swedish original. With plates. In two volumes ...

Maker(s)

Sparrman, Anders,
Donor.: Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, (Viscount,)

Description

Additional engraved frontispiece to v.1, depicting an indigenous village and European hunters; titled: "Prospect of the country at the Cape of Good Hope".
Illustrated with engraved plates depicting the fauna of South Africa and cultural objects, and a map of the region (all unsigned); v.2 also concludes with a piece of letterpress printed music ("Air, sung by the Hottentot-Caffres, near Little Sunday-river"), at the foot of p. 356.
Includes a table of contents in each vol.
Old classmark: 654.
Binding: tree calf, border (g. fillet); spine & board edges g.t., g. lettering on green spine labels; a.e. sprinkled.

Natural history South Africa Cape of Good Hope. Voyages around the world Early works to 1800.

Notes

History note: Provenance: Fitzwilliam, 1810.

Measurements and weight

2 v ([10] leaves of plates, [1] folded leaf of plates) : ill, map ; 27cm (4to).

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Note

Sparrman, Anders,1748-1820.London: :Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster-row.,MDCCLXXXVI [1786]. Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, Viscount, 1745-1816, donor. G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, London, England), publisher. G. G. J. and J. Robinson.