Andre SPARRMAN
Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans les pays des Hottentots et des Caffres. Traduit par M. Le Tourneur.?
Chez Buisson|A Paris 1787|19.50 x 26.70 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of Pierre Le Tourneur’s French translation, published in Paris by Buisson in 1787, in two quarto volumes. It appeared the same year as a more common three-volume octavo edition issued by the same publisher. The work is illustrated with a folding frontispiece showing a view of the Cape, a large folding map of the Cape and 15 hors-texte plates, several folding. In the present copy, the plates have been bound at the end of volumes I and II. Some still bear the indication “Tom. III”, inherited from the pagination of the octavo edition, showing that the two authorised editions circulated with the same engraved plates.
€1,800