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Verlag: Taylor & Francis 2021-04-21, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1138010995ISBN 13: 9781138010994
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.
Verlag: 1851, 1851
Anbieter: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Schweden
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Pp. xii, 244; vi, 248. With ten lithographed plates (coloured and tinted) and three woodcut plates. Errata slip inserted. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, head of spines chipped. Bindings shaken, some wormholes at the beginning of first volume, partly with some foxing.First edition. Dahomey was a West African kingdom (situated in today's Southern Benin) from the beginning of the 17th century up until 1904. Forbes, a British naval officer made two journeys to visit the Court of the King with the unsuccessful mission to convince him to end involvement in the slave trade. Forbes' journals include descriptions of the inhabitants, their customs, culture and vocabularies of the Vahie and Dahoman languages. Gay 2878.
London, Longman, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Small 8vo. Uncut in 2 orig. blindstamped full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines. Light wear along edges. XII,244V,248 pp. and 13 plates (10 lithographed, 4 in colour, 6 tinted and 3 in woodcut). Internally clean. With errata slip First edition. Having captured six slave ships in the year preceding his first mission to Dahomey, Forbes was eager to visit this one country which had chosen to ignore the foreign request to end the slave trade. His account provides information not only on the country itself and the manners and customs of the people, but includes a large appendix with vocabularies of the Vahie and Dahoman languages.Dahomey was an African kingdom (located in the area of the present-day country of Benin) which lasted from about 1600 until 1894, when the last chief Behanzin was defeated by the French and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire.
Verlag: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1851
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
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First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Two volumes in brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; blue and white printed endpapers with publisher's advertisements; xii,244pp; [vi],248pp; 10 tinted lithographs, some with hand coloring, and 3 black and white lithographs. Errata slip in vol. I, following contents. Binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds, London, to rear pastedown of vol. I. Ownership inscriptions of F. J. Young to front endpaper versos. Unfaded and straight, frayed at spine ends, vol. I with tear to cloth over rear joint and minor perforations to paper over interior hinges, vol. II starting split to front joint, short tears to cloth over both joints, and short (2-in) crack to rear hinge; occasional spots of browning but generally clean: Very Good. A Royal Naval officer's journals of visits to Dahomey (a kingdom located in what is now southern Benin), published with an antislavery intent: "It is the object of the author.to illustrate the dreadful slave hunts and ravages, the annihiliations and exterminations, consequent on this trade; and to bring prominently before the British public the sacred service they are rendering" through their efforts to halt the slave trade (p.iv, vol.I). NOT IN ABBEY.