British West Africa, Its Rise and Progress
London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1900.
Hardcover. Good. Second edition, issued in one volume. xiv, 512 pp, with index, illustrations, and 8 colored maps (5 folding). Original blue pictorial cloth, with some abrasion to front board, moderate edgewear. U.S. Torpedo Naval Station bookplate on front pastedown and blind stamp on plates and maps. Binding sound but not as tight as it could be; contents clean. A historical survey of British exploration, trade, and governance in West Africa, covering Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ashanti, Nigeria, the Fulah Empire, exploration of and trade on the Niger, the slave trade, missionaries, etc.
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