A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts.

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Author: Bosman, Willem (1672-?after 1703) Year: 1721 Publisher: Printed for F Knapton, A Bell, etal Place: London Description: [8]+493+[19 (including 3 of advertisements)] pages with folding frontispiece map by Moll and seven engraved plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in full leather with five raised spine bands and red label between compartment in gilt lettering. . (Cardinall 256; Goldsmiths 4153; Hogg 144b) Second English edition. It is fortunate that there is a case for a period picture at the beginning of the eighteenth century, as there is for the purpose the brilliant account of the country's human geography by William Bosman. His work A new and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea , was written originally as a series of letters between 1700 and 1702. It was first published in book form in Dutch in 1703 and was followed by an accurate English edition two years later. Bosman left the country of 27 July 1702 after a stay of fourteen years. He was chief factor for the Dutch, and his trading interests took him to most parts of Southern Ghana. Bosman's work is easily the most reliable of the major works on the country produced in the eighteenth century. It thoroughly covered Southern Ghana which was fairly well known to Europeans, but was hardly concerned with Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, the inland sections of Volta Region, and Northern Ghana, about which Bosman and other Europeans only had scraps of information collected from local Ghanaian merchants. It is neve

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