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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee : with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa
Title
Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee : with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa / by T. Edward Bowdich.
Published
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1819.
Physical Description
viii, [2], 512 p., [14] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., map, facsim., music ; 29 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center is the Abbey copy. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Bookplate: W.H. Darby. Autograph: Mary Curteis. 1821.
Notes
Half title: Mission to Ashantee.
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, London.
Variant and related titles
Mission to Ashantee
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Contents of the plates: Map shewing the discoveries & improvements in the geography of Western Africa
(Map from Dapper)
Captain in his War Dress
(Facsimile of announcement in English and Arabic.)
First day of the Yam Custom
Oldest House in Coomassee
Part of the quarters of the mission
Odumata's sleeping room
Inner square of Apookoos House
Part of a Piazza in the Palace
Part of Adoom Street
Kings sleeping room
Ichnographical sketch of Coomassie, with the principal streets and the situations of remarkable houses
Ashantee Music
Ashantee music comtinute
Empoongwa Song.
References
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 95
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 279
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1819.
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