Book title:

Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et autour du monde avec le capitaine Cook, by Sparrman, Anders

Keywords: Africa, Exploration, National customs, Social mores, Travel, Voyages

Parisian category: Voyages

Illegality: Poinçot’s Inventory of the Bastille (France, 1789)

Sold and Given: 37 full copies

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Full title: Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et autour du monde avec le capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres ["sic"], par André Sparman... traduit par M. Le Tourneur
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Author(s): Sparrman, Anders
Translator(s): Le Tourneur, Pierre-Prime-Félicien
Original title: Resa till Goda Hoppsudden
Original language: Swedish
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?], 1787
Details: 3 volumes, in-8°

LFB Catalogue 1787

Notes: Attribution - details as given in Fauche-Borel Catalogue (1787), although it is not clear whether this refers to the original Paris edition, or a counterfeit edition produced the same year.