Research Catalog

Title

West African islands / by A.B. Ellis.

Author

Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon), 1852-1894

Publication

London : Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1885.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chapman and Hall, publisher.
• Charles Dickens and Evans, printer.

Description

viii, 352 pages; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Guinea, Gulf of > Description and travel
• Islands of the Atlantic > Description and travel
• Macaronesia > Description and travel

Note

• With a half-title.
• "The materials for this work were notes taken during visits made to the principal islands lying off the West Coast of Africa, in the course of fifteen voyages to and from South and West Africa, between 1871 and 1882."--Note on verso of title page.
• "Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press."--printer statement, colophon, page 352.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

St. Helena -- Ascension -- Fernando Po -- The Isles de Los -- St. Vincent -- San Antonio -- Gorée -- Grand Canary -- Teneriffe -- Madeira.

Call Number

Sc 916.69-E (Ellis, A. West African islands)

OCLC

• 3782588
• NYPGR3782588-B

Author

Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon), 1852-1894, author.

Title

West African islands / by A.B. Ellis.

Publisher

London : Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1885.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.69-E (accession no. B593918) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)

Added Author

Chapman and Hall, publisher.

Charles Dickens and Evans, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 916.69-E (Ellis, A. West African islands)

BMT (Ellis, A. B. West African islands)