Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

by Captain John Gabriel Stedman

$12,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: J. Johnson, 1796. Vol I only. 4to, xviii, 407 i.e. 415 , 7, index, plates, errata pp., with 40 hand-coloured plates as called for including hand-coloured frontispiece and title page vignette. Very good in contemporary brown calf with gilt rules, decoration, and titling to spine with five raised bands. Internally good: some offsetting and very occasional foxing; front endpaper torn but expertly repaired. § First edition. Sixteen of the plates and per

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