Lot 49
  • 49

Atkins, John

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • Atkins, John
  • A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies. London: Caesar Ward and Richard Chandler, 1735
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (201 x 125mm.), [2pp. adverts], xxviii, 266pp., [6pp. adverts], engraved title vignette, contemporary review pasted onto front-free endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, dark red morocco label, covers bordered in gilt

Literature

Borba de Moraes p.53 (second edition); Sabin 2274

Condition

A fine copy. The joints are cracked
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Catalogue Note

Atkins’s narrative of a voyage made by HMS Swallow and Weymouth is rich in ethnographic material, and also deals with the natural history of the Gold Coast, and the slave trade.