Sir Frederick Gordon [ editor ]. Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Gold Coast Colony. 1925.

by GUGGISBERG

£1,250 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

GUGGISBERG, Sir Frederick Gordon [ editor ]. Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the Gold Coast Colony. 1925. Printed at the Govt. Printing Office, Accra, Gold Coast Colony, 1925 [ printed label inside rear cover ]. Oblong 4to. Original cream cloth, patterned endpapers; pp. 242. two colour-printed maps at the end, highly illustrated after photographs, including fold-out illustrations; cloth a little spotted; otherwise very good. Very rare first edition of this Ghanaian imprint, celebrating and documenting the colony with very detailed information on the development, infrastructure, population, art, and economy. Guggisberg was a Canadian colonial administrator and author of books on Africa. COPAC locates only three copies, at Cambridge, Kings College and Newcastle University; not in the British Library. SKU: 2113558

• Binding: Hardcover

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