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Author Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820.
Title 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 ... natural history. Translated from the Swedish original. With plates.
Publication Info. Dublin : Printed for Messrs. White, Cash, and Byrne, M DCC LXXXV. [1785]
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 Rare Books Medium  Z-M S737 V975  v. 1    IN LIBRARY
 Rare Books Medium  Z-M S737 V975  v. 2    IN LIBRARY
Description 2 v., 9 leaves of plates (2 folded.) : ill.; 1 folded map, music ; 22 cm. (8⁰)
Note "In two volumes".
Translated by Georg Forster.
Music fragment in vol. 2, p.382.
Translation of: Resa till Goda Hoppsudden.
Indexed In: ESTC T129107
Note Library set imperfect, lacking the map. Listed in 1789 catalogue, p. 66; in 1793 catalogue, p. 75, No. 492, and in the First Ledger as Sparrman's Voyage. Vol. 1 rebound, lacking ex-libris; v. 2 has the ex-libris by P.R. Maverick and No. 493 in MS, black ink. Plates for both volumes, excluding the frontispiece of v. 1 are bound at end of v. 2; plates are signed Gonne, sculp, the frontispiece: Esdall, sculp. Various writings in different hands. ZNS
Subject Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820 -- Travel.
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800.
Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820.
Genre or Form Engravings -- Ireland -- 18th century.
Woodcuts -- Ireland -- 18th century.
Added Author Forster, Georg, 1754-1794, translator.
White, Richard, fl. 1790-1792, bookseller.
Cash, John, d. 1833, bookseller.
Byrne, Patrick, 1741?-1814, bookseller.
Esdall, William, d. 1795, engraver.
Gonne, engraver.
New York Society Library. Catalog. 1789. ZNS
New York Society Library. Catalog. 1793. ZNS
New York Society Library. Charging ledger. 1789-1792. ZNS
City Readers: Digital Historic Collections (New York Society Library)
Added Title Resa till Goda Hopps-udden. English


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