Resa Pa Neger-Kusten til Kongl. Hofvety i Dahomej, af Angelske Handels Agenten Norris Ar 1772.

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

First Swedish edition of Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomey … to which are added, the author’s journey to Abomey the capital and a short account of the African slave trade. This edition is considerably abridged but is noteworthy for the scholarly annotations of Samuel Oedmann, who had in turn translated it from a German translation by J.R. Forster. Not in BMC.

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