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SPARRMAN, Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, 1787
SPARRMAN, Anders.
Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et Autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et Principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres.
Paris, Buisson, 1787.
Three volumes 8vo (198x123 mm), frontispiece, xxxii-389-(&) pages, 1 folding map and 2 plates / (4)-366-(1) pages and 7 plates / (4)-365-(4) pages and 6 plates. binding : Beginning of ninetten century quarter sheep, gilt flat spines. Binding default on page 198 on volume 2.
First french 8vo edition.
A student of Linnaeus, Sparrman (1748-1820) stayed in Cape Town and studied the flora and especially the fauna of the region. From Cape Town, he took part in James Cook's second voyage as a botanist's assistant and was thus one of two disciples of Linnaeus to have circumnavigated the world.
provenance: Former stamps and stickers from Ecole libre St Joseph de Lille.
Price : 350 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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