DUPUIS (Joseph)

Journal of a Residence in Ashantee by... His Britanic Majesty's Envoy...comprising notes and researches relative to the Gold Coast; and the interior of West Africa; chiefly collected from Arabic Mss. and information collected by the Moslems of Guinea.

First edition. Folding map and 15 plates (of which 3 are folding one double page aquatints). 4to. Original boards, marginal stain affecting the frontispiece and first 5 leaves. xxxviii, 264; cxxxvi.pp London, Colburn, 1824.

£1,750.00
DUPUIS (Joseph)
Journal of a Residence in Ashantee by... His Britanic Majesty's Envoy...comprising notes and researches relative to the Gold Coast; and the interior of West Africa; chiefly collected from Arabic Mss. and information collected by the Moslems of Guinea.

Dupuis was “His Majesty’s Envoy and Consul” to the Ashantee Kingdom. The work is enlivened by three particularly interesting and finely wrought aquatint engravings.

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