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Six months' service in the African blockade, from April to October 1848, in command of H.M.S. Bonetta.

Stock Code 90997

London, Bentley, 1849

Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00
Original price £1,750.00
£1,750.00
£1,750.00 - £1,750.00
Current price £1,750.00
Scarce. Important first hand work on the Slave Trade at the time of Sierra Leone and Liberia signing the Anti-Slavery Trade Treaty.

First edition. 8vo (19.5 x 11.5 cm.), x, 146 pp., folding map (depicting the countries between Sierra Leone and Liberia), pale half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, full gilt spine, flat raised bands, red leather label, map strengthened at folds, occasional light spotting, a very good copy.

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Six months' service in the African blockade, from April to October 1848, in command of H.M.S. Bonetta.

FORBES, Frederick Edwyn.

Stock code: 90997

£1,750.00

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