Will be shipped rolled, in a tube.
After Anders SPARRMAN
(1748-1820).
Carte Geographique, du Cap de Bonne
Esperance … par Andre Sparman [sic.].
[Paris: 1787]
Engraved map on laid
paper (sheet size: 14 ¾ x 23 inches).
Condition: old folds,
one clean tears, lower right blank corner replaced, neat repairs to verso using
archival paper repair tape.
Shows a good chunk
of coastal southern Africa: approximately from Cape Town in the west to East
London in the east: it was a based on the survey work of Sparrma, a Swedish
naturalist, abolitionist and apostle of Carl Linnaeus.