SPARRMAN, ANDERS. Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76. I-II:1-2. Stockholm. A. J. Nordström - C. Deleen, 1783-1818.

8vo (c. 178x110 /175x100 mm.). (7), VIII-XV (misprint for XIV), (1)-704, 701-766; (12), (11), 12-179, (1); (2), (1)-234, (4) pp. 2 folding engraved maps, 25 partly folding engraved plates,of which 2 in aquatint and 2 mounted fabrics (of Tapa cloth), after p. 178 in vol, II:1 and after p. 234 in vol. II:2), complete.
Two slightly different contemporary half calf bindings, gilt spines, first volume with red title label, upper board with gilt name "Esaia. Moberg", second volume with brown label, upper board with number written in ink, both slightly worn, some staining to vol. 2, first with split inner joint, small oval stamp with monogram C F T to flyleaves. Both with bookplate of Birger Strandell. Title to vol. I with erased signatures, repair verso, title to vol. 2 repaired with printed text mounted (the word Andra Delen).

Provenance: Birger Strandell (1901-1993), Swedish physician and famous Linnaeus collector, then inherited within the family. Strandell was one of the foremost Linnaeus collectors and chairman of the Swedish Linnaeus Society for many years. He was a descendant of Linnaeus and his collection, which was founded by Emil Lindell, is one of the largest collections regarding Linnaeus ever to be in private hands. It now belongs to the Hunt Botanical Library i Pittsburgh, USA.

VERY RARE COMPLETE.
Pritzel 9784 (regarding vol. I); Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesiana 1218, 1228.
The aquatinta plates engraved by F. Acrel, the other plates engraved by E. Åkerland.

This account of Cook’s second voyage describes his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as an assistent to naturalist Johann Forster on board the Resolution between September 1772 and March 1775.
A English edition of Sparrman’s voyage was published in 1785.

Anders Sparrman (1748-1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He accompanied James Cook on his second voyage, a mulit-year expedition to map the Southern Ocean and search for the great continent, Terra Australias, hypothesised to exist at the South Pole. He joined the voyage as a botanist during its stop in Cape Town. In addition to visiting, naming, and mapping many Southern Islands, the voyage achieved a new "farthest south, " when the Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.