The Life of Major-General Worge, Colonel of the 86th Regiment of Foot, and Governor of Senegal in Africa; with an account of the settlements of Senegal and Goree

by George Duke

$450 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gold. rebacked with original spine laid down. Bookplate on front pastedown and flyleaf. Minor foxing. Good. Biography of Richard Alchorne Worge 1707-74 , first governor of the British settlements in Senegambia from 1758-63. This work includes some description of the native inhabitants of the country, as well as the landscape and wildlife. The maps show Senegambia and the coast of north-western Africa, and the

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