‎SPARRMAN, ANDERS.‎
‎Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden Södra Polkretsen och Omkring Jordklotet samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen åren 1772-76. Part I-II:2.‎

‎Stockholm, Bokförlaget Rediviva, 1968. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two nice contemporary half calf binding. Facsimilie-edition printed in 550 numbered copies, the present being no. 118. A fine and clean set. Printed on good paper. (8), XV, 766 pp. + 9 plates and folded maps (16), 179, (1) pp. + 6 plates and maps" (6), 234, (4) pp. + 10 plates. ‎

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‎Well made facsimilie-edition of Sparrman's famous travelling account which has been called the '""most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of people then residing in it"" that had been published in the 18th century. The work is one of the most important investigations of the South African fauna in the second half of the 18th century. He sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in January 1772 to take up a post as a tutor. When James Cook arrived there later in the year at the start of his second voyage, Sparrman was taken on as assistant naturalist to Johann and Georg Forster. After the voyage he returned to Cape Town in July 1775 and practiced medicine, earning enough to finance a journey into the interior.‎