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BAESJOU, René. An Asante embassy on the Gold Coast. The mission of Akyempon Yaw to Elmina, 1869-1872. Leiden, Afrika-Studiecentrum, 1979. Wrappers. With folding map. 250 pp. - (African Social Research Documents). [Boeknr.: 35616 ]

€ 35,00

BOUDYCK-BASTIAANSE, Jan Hendrik van. Voyage a la côte de Guinée, dans le golfe de Biafra, a l'ile de Fernando-Po, l'ile de Ste Hélène et autres iles dans le passage, a bord du brick-goelette, Le Lancier par le capitaine de frégate J.H. van Boudyck Bastiaanse. La Haye, Belinfante Frères, 1853.Later marbled boards, uncut. XXVI, 451 pp. From the library of the Groote Club, Doctrina & Amicitia, Amsterdam. - Journal by the Dutch lieutenant-commander Jan Hendrik van Boudyck-Bastiaanse (1793-1861) of a trip to the Gold Coast, West Africa, the islands Fernando-Po, St. Helena and other African Atlantic islands. - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.124; Tiele 76; Cardinall 484. [Boeknr.: 36168 ]

€ 450,00

BOWDICH, Thomas Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. London, John Murray, 1819.4to. Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With folding plate depicting an Arabic circular, wood-engraved plan of Ichonographical Sketch of Coomassie, 2 maps (1 folding), 5 engraved sheets of music on 3 leaves, and 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 folding, the 'First day of the yam custom' is a coloured facsimile). VIII,(2),512 pp. First edition. - Bowdich (1791-1824) was appointed conductor of a mission to Ashantee organised by the African Company in 1815 and, using considerable diplomatic and negotiating skills, succeeded in forming a treaty with the King of Ashantee, bringing peace to the British settlements along the Gold Coast. 'This work, the most important after Bruce's, excited great interest, as an almost incredible story ..of a land of warlike and barbaric splendour hithero unknown'(DNB). 'Bowdich must be considered as the first who achieved the object of penetrating to the interior of Africa' (Thomson, The exotic and the beautilul, 79). - Some offsetting otherwise a fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 279; Tooley, Coloured plates, 95; Prideaux p.238. [Boeknr.: 7710 ]

€ 675,00

CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. Achttien jaren aan de Goudkust. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en met eene inleiding vermeerderd door D.P.H.J. Weijtingh. Amsterdam, Weijtingh & Van der Haart, 1855.2 volumes. Original printed wrappers (spines rep.). With large folding lithographed view of Elmina by W. Bartels. XVI,251; XIV,208 pp. First enlarged Dutch translation of Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa, including an account of the native tribes and their intercourse with Europeans. London 1853. - This Dutch edition has an introduction by D.P.H.J. Weijtingh, dealing with the history of the Dutch possessions on the coast. Cruikshank served on the Gold Coast of Africa (Southern Ghana) from 1834-1854 and was a member of the first Legislative Council of the Gold Coast, as well as the first Collector-General of the colony. The work offers insight into the judicial system, music, religion, dance, and social customs of the native people.Cat. NHSM I, p.205; Gay 2865 (English ed.); Hess & Coger 6372 (English ed.); Cardinall 518 (English ed.); not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 10188 ]

€ 475,00

CUIJLENBORG, Hans van. Het stinkende goud. Een liefde aan de Goud-, Tand- en Slavenkust. Historische roman. De Bilt, Haes, 2016. Wrappers. 128 pp. [Boeknr.: 35972 ]

€ 15,00

DALZEL, Archibald. The history of Dahomey, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes. London, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793.4to. Later half calf, spine gilt. With folding engraved map with cartouche depicting an elephant after R. Norris, and 6 engraved plates by Chesham (one partly cut short and tipped in). XXXII,XXVI,(4),230 pp. First edition. - One of the first published descriptions of Dahomey. He drew partly on his own experience as a merchant and slave trader. He was the former governor at Whydah, West-Africa, and at time of publication of the present work, governor at Cape-Coast-Castle. His official position enabled him opportunities of obtaining valuable and accurate information. Parts of the history are compiled from i.a. the memoirs of Robert Norris, who spent eighteen years in the African trade, and from the communications of Lionel Abson, Dalzel's successor as British governor at Whydah. 'His History was both a historical compilation and propaganda against the abolition of the slave trade. He argued that the slave trade saved African victims from human sacrifice and slaughter' (The Paolo Bianchi Collection 102). The plates are showing scenes of the audience of the king of the of Dahomey, the king marching out at the head of his armed women, victims for sacrifice, the procession of the kings women, the last day of the annual customs for watering the graves of the kings ancestors, Adahoonzou cuts off 127 heads to complete the ornament of his wall,. The book is a polemic written in order to counter the charges of the British anti-slave trade movement and to prevent any further Parliamentary action being taken against the trade. 'His book remains important for its contents, pleasant style, and influence' (DNB). - (Occasionally sl. foxed; small library stamp on title-page).Cardinall 396; Hogg 170; Work p.8; Afro-Americana 2902. [Boeknr.: 11910 ]

€ 1950,00

DRAGTENSTEIN, Frank. Van Elmina naar Paramaribo. De slavenhaler. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2017. Wrappers. With illustrations. 176 pp. A true story of Jan Wils about the purchase on the gold coast and the transport to Paramaribo of 500 slaves with the slave ship De Coninck in 1686. [Boeknr.: 34568 ]

€ 20,00

HAM, Gijs van der. Dof goud. Ghana en Nederland sinds 1593. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Nijmegen, VanTilt, 2016. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 170 pp. [Boeknr.: 33961 ]

€ 25,00

HAM, Gijs van der. Dof goud. Nederland en Ghana, 1593 - 1872. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Nijmegen, VanTilt, 2013. 4to. With many coloured illustrations. 200 pp. [Boeknr.: 33354 ]

€ 25,00

ISERT, Paul Erdmann. Reis na Guinea en de Caribische eilanden in Columbien. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Dordrecht, De Leeuw en Kraf, 1790.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With 2 engraved plates. VIII,418 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Copenhagen in 1788 Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Colombien. - In twelve letters Paul Erdmann Isert (1756-1789), describes his voyage from Copenhagen to the Gold Coast and gives an account of the Danish settlements and considerable details of the customs of the natives. In 1786, he describes the voyage from Africa to the Danish West Indies with a cargo of 452 blacks who rose against the whites on the second day at sea, with a resulting loss of 34 of their number and 2 of the crew wounded after a heated battle. He gives good descrptions of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The complete round trip took four years. The book is a source work and, because of being one of the few accounts of a person actually making the Guinea voyage and because of the sensational nature of its contents, it has been heavily drawn on by writers on the slave traffic for nearly a century and a half (Ragatz p. 226). He was the first European explorer of Ashanti and is also known for his attempts to end the Danish-Norwegian slave trade. Cat. NHSM I, p.140 (later ed.); Cardinall 397; Sabin 35245; Cf. Gay 2812; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 405; Work p.11; Hogg 160; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 27468 ]

€ 495,00

KAN, C.M. Nederland en de kust van Guinea. Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1871.Original printed wrappers. 57 pp. Treatise against the transfer of the Dutch West-Africa possession to Britain (realized in 1872). [Boeknr.: 15238 ]

€ 95,00

KOERT, Robert van. Afrikaanse Dutch Wax. Dutch wax design technology. Van Helmond naar West-Africa. Uniwax en GTP in postkoloniaal Ivoorkust en Ghana. (Helmond, 2007). 4to. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. 160 pp. On Dutch batiks made for West-Afrika. [Boeknr.: 30728 ]

€ 40,00

LENZ, Oskar. Skizzen aus Westafrika. Selbsterlebnisse. Berlin, A. Hofmann & Co., 1878.Old half cloth with paper label to spine. With folding map. (8),346 pp. First edition. - 'Eine Sammlung von untereinander selbstständigen Essays über die natürlichen und socialen Zustände jener wenig durchforschten und selten besuchten Küste, wie sich mir dieselben während einer dreijährigen (1874 bis 1877), im Auftrag der 'deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung Aequatorial-Afrika's' unternommenen Reise dargestellt haben. Oscar Lenz (1848-1925) is 'einer der letzten aus der Heroenzeit der Afrikaforschung' (Hassert). - (Two margins restored; some foxing).Kainbacher p. 241; Cf. Henze III, p.211-217. [Boeknr.: 6240 ]

€ 75,00

PINCKARD, George. Notes on the West Indies: written during the expedition under the command of the late general Ralph Abercromby: including observations on the island of Barbadoes, and the settlements captured by the British troops, upon the coast of Guiana; likewise remarks relating to the creoles and slaves of the western colonies, and the Indians of South America; with occasional hints, regarding the seasoning, or yellow fever of hot climates London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.3 volumes. Later half calf, spines gilt, with red and green morocco title labels to spines. XXIV,448; XX,472; XIX,(1),456 pp. First edition. - 'The author was deputy inspector general of hospitals in the British army. He accompanied General Sir Ralph Abercromby to the West Indies and while not on service became well acquainted with the regions where he was stationed for the time being. He gives us interesting pictures of Plymouth in war time, of the agonizing delay while awaiting embarkation orders, of the break-up of the fleet in a storm, of a visit to slave ships, and intimate and varied accounts of colonial life in Barbados and along the Guiana coast as well as of the vicissitudes of soldier life in the colonies. He received unfavorable impressions of slavery. Urges emancipation, holding that abolition could be regarded as only a step in that direction' (Ragatz pp.231-232). - (Age-browned). - A fine set.The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 600; Sabin 62893; Hogg 731; Work p.269; Afro-Americana 8226. [Boeknr.: 29000 ]

€ 1500,00

PREVOST, Antoine François. Reizen langs de westkust van Afrika, van Kaap Blanko tot Sierra Leona: vervattende de Engelse bezittingen, en koophandel, op de riviere Gambra, met de aardrykskundige- en natuurkundige historie der nabuurige landen. - Reizen naar Guinee en Benin, vervattende de kust van Sierra-Leona, tot aan Kaap Gonsalvo. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1748.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments (top of spines rep.). With title-pages printed in red and black, 12 engraved maps (6 folding) and 43 engraved plates (13 folding) by J. van Schley. 435,(5); (4),532,(6) pp. Historische beschryving der reizen, volume IV-V, enlarged and improved Dutch edition of the French series started by Antoine François Prévost d' Exiles (1697 - 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost. This volume covers a detailed description of trade castles and forts of West-Africa. Between 1482 and the abolition of the slave trade, scores of fortified trading-stations were maintained in West Africa under the crowns of Portugal, Spain and Sweden or the chartered companies of Brandenburg, Prussia, Courland, Denmark, England, France and Holland. - With many fine engraved maps and plates. - (Some minor foxing).Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108. [Boeknr.: 7817 ]

€ 950,00

SHAW, Th. Excavation at Dawu. Report on an excavation in a Mound at Dawu, Akuapim, Ghana. (Legon), University College of Ghana, (1961). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 55 plates and 178 illustrations. VIII,90 pp. Detailed report of the scientific excavation of a 24.ft. high midden mound in Akwapim (Ghana) which appears to have been in use for about four hundred years from a date in the 14th or 15th century. [Boeknr.: 26869 ]

€ 45,00

VOORST, Jan van. Huwelyks-zangen voor ... Jan van Voorst, oud opperbestuurder van Nederlands Africa; met ... Willemina Aletta Kien; in den echt vereenigd binnen Utrecht den 1 van slachtmaand 1757. Utrecht, Willem en W. Henrik Kroon, 1757.4to. With large engraved vignette after C.F. Fritzsch by T. Crajenschot on title page, title page printed in red and black. 26 pp. Wedding poems on the occasion of the wedding of Jan van Voorst and Willemina Aletta Kien, Utrecht 1757. With contributions by N. Kien, A. de Bucquoy, J.A. van Wachendoff and W. Kroon with allusions to the 17 years on the Gold Coast and Elmina. 'Jan van der Voorst was directeur-generaal in Elmina van 1747 tot 1754. Hij moest veel onderhandelen met de Ashanti over de moeilijkheden in de toevoer van tot slaaf gemaakten naar Elmina. Na zijn diensttijd als belangrijkste man op Elimina, zorgde Van Voorst goed voor zichzelf, want in 1764 liet hij 275 tot slaaf gemaakten naar Suriname verschepen, waar ze voor 103.939 gulden werden verkocht, zo'n 375 gulden per persoon. Een jaar later kocht Jan van Voorst Janskerkhof 13 in Utrecht, nu een van de panden van de Universiteit Utrecht, waar religiewetenschappen huist' (Slavernij en de stad Utrecht p.15-16). - Rare. [Boeknr.: 37793 ]

€ 375,00

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