The Golden Trade Or A Discovery Of The River Gambra And The Golden Trade Of The Aethiopians Also The

by Richard Jobson

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First edition

1623. 3 p.l. lacking the first leaf, a blank; title a little soiled , 143, 152-66 pp. Small 4to, cont. English limp vellum. London: N. Okes for N. Bourne, 1623. First edition of one of the great early English accounts of the exploration of the interior of Africa and the first to be published separately others appear in collections ; it is a classic account of the search for gold. Ghana, the earliest known empire of the western Sudan, first

• Binding: Leather

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