1805 1ed SLAVERY African Memoranda Capt Philip Beaver Bulama Colony Sierra Leone

BEAVER, Philip

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Captain Philip Beaver was an 18th-century Royal Navy officer who is best known for his colonization voyage to the island of Bulama. This 1792 voyage proved to be a complete failure – the colonists who survived were uninspired, unhealthy, and apathetic toward establishing a new colony and moved to nearby Sierra Leone.

 

Beaver’s book ‘African Memoranda’ is the captain’s account of the events on the ship as well as on the island of Bulama. This first edition includes two engravings of the ‘block house’ on the island. Interestingly, this book became a catalyst for abolishing African slave trade.

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1805 1ed SLAVERY African Memoranda Capt Philip Beaver Bulama Colony Sierra Leone

 

Captain Philip Beaver was an 18th-century Royal Navy officer who is best known for his colonization voyage to the island of Bulama. This 1792 voyage proved to be a complete failure – the colonists who survived were uninspired, unhealthy, and apathetic toward establishing a new colony and moved to nearby Sierra Leone.

 

Beaver’s book ‘African Memoranda’ is the captain’s account of the events on the ship as well as on the island of Bulama. This first edition includes two engravings of the ‘block house’ on the island. Interestingly, this book became a catalyst for abolishing African slave trade.

 

Item number: #12578

Price: $950

 

BEAVER, Philip

 

African memoranda : relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama, on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1792 : with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations of the facility of colonising that part of Africa, with a view to cultivation, and the introduction of letters and religion to its inhabitants, but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African slavery

 

London : Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, 1805. First edition.

 

Details:

  • Collation: Complete with all pages
    • [8], xv, [1], 500
    • 2 engraved plates
  • References: Goldsmiths’-Kress no. 19071.
  • Provenance: Handwritten – Rufus Coffin, 1827
    • Rufus Coffin served with Union Navy during the American Civil War.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~11.75in X 9.25in (30cm x 23.5cm)
  • Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at $2,000

 

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12578

Categories

Asia, Africa, & Middle Eastern

Voyages & Exploration & Maps

Authors

BEAVER, Philip

Printing Date

19th Century

Language

English

Binding

Leather

Book Condition

Excellent

Collation

Complete