Niger expedition (4 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 8 pages. Folio. FEATURING approx. 520 lines on expedition which left England in 1841, fully equipped not only with government officers, but also scientists sent out by the African Civilisation Society. Occasional page browning and spotting. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Folio (23 x 33 cms). Category: Chambers' Edinburgh Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

0. Selten. - Blattränder beschnitten. - Gute Erhaltung. Sprache: Deutschu.

0. Selten. - Blattränder beschnitten. - Gute Erhaltung. Sprache: Deutschu.

First edition. 6pp. Docket title to verso of final leaf. A trifle creased, some very short tears to margins. A rare survival, ordered to be printed by the House of Commons, of copies of correspondence concerning the setting up of a British expedition to Niger to attempt to repress the foreign slave trade. The expedition, organised by the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa, was ultimately mounted in 1841 using three British iron steam vessels to travel to Lokoja, at the confluence of the Niger River and Benue River, where treaties against the slave trade where achieved - despite significant casualties from illness amongst members of the expedition - with the cities of Aboh and Idah. OCLC records copies at four locations (Florida, Harvard, NYPL, and Oxford); COPAC adds no further. Size: Folio.…