Account of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa; performed by His Majesty's Sloop Favourite, in the Year 1805 being a journal of the events which happened to that vessel, from the time of her leaving England till her capture by the French, and the return of the author in a cartel.
London: Richard Phillips 6, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, by J.G. Barnard, 37, Snow-hill, 1807.
Price: $750.00
About the item
First edition. 9 aquatint plates (3 folding). 43pp. 8vo. Later blue wrappers, some staining.
Item #318999
A description of Senegal and Sierra Leone and the West African slave trade. The author was a surgeon on the British sloop Favourite. The striking illustrations are after his own sketches.
