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 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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