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 15: La description des costes, depuis Rio da Volta jusqu'au Cap Lope Consalva (suite).
Description: Paris, Didot, 1748. 12mo. (III)+426 pp. Complete with 6 fold. maps/plans (Bight of Benin, Gulf of Guinea, Calabar region; English & Frenchs forts at Juida) & 6 plts. (incl. 4 fold.). Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf, spine richly gilt, with title label. (Spine sl. rubbed). VG. ¶ Incl. description of the Slave Coast; voyage of Sieur d'Elbée to the Kingdom of Ardra (1669-70); description of the Kingdom of Benin; voyages of Jacques Barbot & Jean Grazilhier to New Calabar, Bandi & Dono (1699); descriptions of the coastal areas between Rio Formosa and Cape Lopez Consalvo (incl. Rio Gabon).

Keywords: . Colonial expansion. Topography of country people Slavery slave trade Guinea Bissau . Nigeria . Cameroon . Gabon West Central Africa. d'exiles antoine francois abbe 1669 1700


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