Author: PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS,
Title: Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome 9: Voyages au long de la côte occidentale d'Afrique, depuis le Cap Blanco jusqu'à Sierra Leona (suite).
Description: Paris, Didot, 1749. 12mo. (III)+XII+478 pp. Complete with 2 fold. maps (Gambia river). Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf, spine richly gilt, with title label. (Top of spine sl. dam.). VG. ¶ Incl. the English commercial establishments at the Gambia river: description of the river and adjacent kingdoms, voyage of captain Jobson; description of the gold mines; voyages of captain Barth. Stibbs (1724) & Francis Moore; voyage and capture of Job Ben Salomon, Prince of Bunda (1732); French & Portuguese commercial estabishments; voyages of Pieter van den Broecke to Cape Verde & Jacob le Maire to Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Senegal & Gambia; description of the Jalofs, Foulis & Mandingos peoples.

Keywords: . Colonial expansion. British English colonies colonial. Cape Islands Cabo Verde Atlantic Senegal Gambia West Africa. d'exiles antoine francois abbe 1680 1735


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