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Philip Beaver. African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama...
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Failed British Settlement on Africa's West Coast
Philip Beaver. African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792. With a Brief Notice of the Neighboring Tribes, Soil, Productions [...]. But More Particularly as a Means of Gradually Abolishing African Slavery. London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1805.First edition. Quarto. xv, 500. Large folding map.
Modern quarter blue cloth over paper boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Moderate foxing throughout. Very good. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.
Gay, 3196.
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2010 February Signature Rare Books Auction #6038 (go to Auction Home page)
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February, 2010
11th-12th
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