Lot no. 195
SPARRMAN (Anders). Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and around the world with Captain Cook, and principally in the country of the Hottentots and the Caffres. Paris, Buisson, 1787. 3 volumes in-8, half marbled basane with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, daffodil edges (Binding of the period). First edition in-8 of this important voyage to South Africa, translated into French by Le Tourneur and illustrated with a map and 16 folding plates. From the Tronchin library at the Bessinge estate, with bookplate. Spines slightly faded in volumes II and III, some foxing.
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