A MISSION TO GELELE, KING OF DAHOME. With Notices of the So-called "Amazons," the Grand Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature.
Livres anciens et modernes
Burton
Tinsley Brothers,
1864
A MISSION TO GELELE, KING OF DAHOME. With Notices of the So-called "Amazons," the Grand Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature.
Livres anciens et modernes
Burton
Tinsley Brothers,
1864
1100,00 €
(Newburyport,
États-Unis d'Amérique)
Mode de Paiement
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Détails
- Année
- 1864
- Lieu d'édition
- London
- Auteur
- Burton
- Éditeurs
- Tinsley Brothers
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION. One of West Africa’s more brutal dictators,
- Langues
- Anglais
- Premiére Edition
- True
Description
2 volumes. First Edition, First Issue with p. 181 in Vol. II misnumbered and with the half-titles as called for. With a frontispiece engraving in each volume. 8vo, bound in modern brown cloth, the spines lettered and numbered in gilt. xx, 386; vi, 412 pp. A good and solid copy of the true first edition, the later cloth bindings are strong and without chipping or damage, the text-block generally very clean and tight and well preserved with only very occasional evidence of spotting, prelims with some mellowing as is typical, small old unobtrusive stamp to the title-pages and verso of the plates. .
