First edition of a very interesting account of the first Swedish circumnavigation, richly illustrated with fine colour plates showing views and costume-plates.
The author, Baron Skogman, was the astronomer on the voyage, undertaken under the command of Captain Christian Adolf Virgin (1797-1870), for commercial and political reasons. Nils Johan Andersson, the first Darwinian botanist in Sweden, was the ship's naturalist. They visited the east and west coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Some good accounts are present of the expedition's stops in Honolulu, San Francisco, Tahiti, Sydney and Manila, and shorter notices on various Sother such as, the Galapagos, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Cape of Good Hope.
The work was translated in German in 1856 and republished in 1857. The part relating to South America was translated in Spanish and published at Buenos Aires in 1942, while the only English translation ever made were the 30 odd pages relating to Honolulu, published there in 1954.
Good copy of a little-known travel book. Borba de Moraes, p. 815; Forbes 2051; Hill, p. 573; Kroepelien, 1196; Judd 163 and p. 41; not in Ferguson.