RILEY James

Loss of the American Brig Commerce, wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815. With an Account of Tombuctoo, and of the hitherto undiscovered great City of Wassanah.

1st edition. With a large folding map (this a little carelessly folded). 4to. Very smart contemporary half calf with back richly gilt including in the uppermost panel an ownership cypher, corners rubbed. xvi,618pp. John Murray. London, 1817.

£400.00

With the armorial bookplate of Sarah Sophia Child, Lady Jersey, also known ironically as “Silence”

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