First Edition, with folding frontispiece map. 8vo. Original green cloth, boards ornately stamped (in black to front and blind to back), gilt titling to spine, map in excellent condition. Minor rubbing to extremities and some wear to back board, otherwise very good. pp. [1]-82, [26]ads. London: Edward Stanford, 1874.
A ’pamphlet [that] may help in some degree as a clue in the labyrinth of Gold Coast troubles.’ (p.6). The author, a vice–admiral, attempts to demarcate the history of the different territories on the Gold Coast and to outline the competing colonial interests at work there.
