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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/LIB/11/1
Former ReferenceD3311/156
Title"A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope: Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle and Round the World ... in the Years 1772-1776", Volume 2, by Andrew [Anders] Sparrman
Date[1789]
DescriptionMainly concerning the country of "The Hottentots and Caffres" [in South Africa].
Translated from Swedish, printed by E. Morison, Perth, Scotland, 260 pages, plus title page, pages of contents (iii-vi) and 7 pages of drawings of African animals (at end).
Bookplate of Philip Lyttelton Gell on front inside cover [back cover detached]
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
FormatPrinted
TermGeographical exploration
Black African peoples

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Sparrman; Anders (1748-1820); Swedish naturalist
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South Africa 
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