Un compagnon suédois du capitaine James Cook au cours de son deuxième voyage. (Presentation copy for Francis Edwards)

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Oslo : La Coquille qui Chante, 1939. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. (This copy is no. 29). Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page by the work s translator for London bookseller Francis Edwards: Francis Edwards, with the compliments of Bjarne Kroepelien . Octavo (225 x 150 mm), white pigskin over papered boards, spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. 91, [2 plates] + colophon; front pastedown with later ex libris of the Säbylund Fideikommissbibliotek; title-page with minor spotting, last leaf starting to loosen, else a very fine presentation copy with a nice association, since Kroepelien acquired many of his important travel books from Francis Edwards. French translation, by Bjarne Kroepelien, of Sparrman s Resa till Goda Hoppsudden . Beddie, 1283. Trove locates three copies (NLA; SLNSW; SLV)

• Binding: Hardcover

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