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329

SPARRMAN, ANDERS.

Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et autour

du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le Pays des Hottentots

et des Caffres.

16 folding engraved plates; folding map. xxxii, 388; [4], 366, [2]; [4], 363

pages, including half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, 191x117 mm, contemporary paste-paper

boards, spines and joints worn; occasional heavy browning of text, dampstaining in blank

upper and lower margins of plates in Volume 2, and in lower inner corners of opening

leaves and map in Volume 3.

Paris: Buisson, 1787

[400/600]

FIRST OCTAVO EDITION IN FRENCH

,

published the same year as a 2-volume quarto edition.

“Sparrman was a Swedish naturalist who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage.

This work is mainly concerned with his travels and natural history expeditions in South

Africa”—Hill, page 279 (1785 edition in English). Beddie 1280 (this edition).

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ZAPPULLO, MICHELE.

Sommario Istorico.

[8], 587, [25] pages. 4to, 197x143

mm, later boards backed with reversed leather; marginal dampstaining through most of vol-

ume, occasional browning, title soiled and reinforced in gutter, repaired clean tear in 3O1,

repaired wormhole in blank lower outer corner of approximately 25 leaves toward end,

dark stain on 4E1, last 2 index leaves shaved along bottom edge.

Naples: Gio. Giacomo Carlino & Costantino Vitale, 1609

[300/500]

Third edition of a chronicle of Jerusalem, Rome, Naples, Venice, and the Indies originally pub-

lished in 1598, also including a discourse on astronomical tables. Alden 609/135.

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