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JOHN ADAMS
Remarks on the Country extending from Cape Palmas to the River Congo, including observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823. 8° (219 x 132mm.). Half title, 2 engraved maps, one folding. (Light offsetting from maps, a few light spots.) Contemporary half calf (part of spine torn away, the rest almost detached, rubbed). FIRST EDITION.
With 2 defective works on Africa, Joannes Leo's De l'Afrique (Paris, 1830, vols. I, II and IV only, lacking vol. III) and Hugh Murray's Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa (Edinburgh, 1818, 2 vols., lacking A8 in vol. one). (6)
Remarks on the Country extending from Cape Palmas to the River Congo, including observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823. 8° (219 x 132mm.). Half title, 2 engraved maps, one folding. (Light offsetting from maps, a few light spots.) Contemporary half calf (part of spine torn away, the rest almost detached, rubbed). FIRST EDITION.
With 2 defective works on Africa, Joannes Leo's De l'Afrique (Paris, 1830, vols. I, II and IV only, lacking vol. III) and Hugh Murray's Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa (Edinburgh, 1818, 2 vols., lacking A8 in vol. one). (6)
Provenance
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), and thence by descent to the present owner.
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