Author: PREVOST, Antoine François.
Title: Reizen langs de westkust van Afrika, van Kaap Blanko tot Sierra Leona: vervattende de Engelse bezittingen, en koophandel, op de riviere Gambra, met de aardrykskundige- en natuurkundige historie der nabuurige landen. - Reizen naar Guinee en Benin, vervattende de kust van Sierra-Leona, tot aan Kaap Gonsalvo.
Description: 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1748. 2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments (top of spines rep.). With title-pages printed in red and black, 12 engraved maps (6 folding) and 43 engraved plates (13 folding) by J. van Schley. 435,(5); (4),532,(6) pp. Historische beschryving der reizen, volume IV-V, enlarged and improved Dutch edition of the French series started by Antoine François Prévost d' Exiles (1697 - 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost. This volume covers a detailed description of trade castles and forts of West-Africa. Between 1482 and the abolition of the slave trade, scores of fortified trading-stations were maintained in West Africa under the crowns of Portugal, Spain and Sweden or the chartered companies of Brandenburg, Prussia, Courland, Denmark, England, France and Holland. - With many fine engraved maps and plates. - (Some minor foxing). Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108.

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