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Title

Gleanings in Africa : exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and surrounding country : with a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists : soil, climate, natural productions, &c. &c. &c. : interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent : in a series of letters from an English officer during the period in which that colony was under the protection of the British government. : illustrated with engravings.

Publication

[London] : Albion Press printed: Published by James Cundee, Ivy - Lane; Paternoster-Row, London, 1806.

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Additional Authors

• Cundee, J. (James)
• Albion Press (London, England), printer.

Description

xxi, [1], 320, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Slavery
• Slavery > South Africa
• Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) > Description and travel
• Slavery > South Africa > Cape of Good Hope
• Khoikhoi (African people)

Note

• "James Cundee, printer, Ivy-Lane"--colophon, p. 320.
• "Directions to the binder for placing the cuts" and a publisher's advertisement on the final [2] p.

Indexed In (note)

• Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) -- margin note, in graphite, on p. 134.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) bound in tree patterned brown leather boards.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.87-G (Gleanings in Africa)

OCLC

• 7626174
• NYPGR7626174-B

Title

Gleanings in Africa : exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and surrounding country : with a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists : soil, climate, natural productions, &c. &c. &c. : interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent : in a series of letters from an English officer during the period in which that colony was under the protection of the British government. : illustrated with engravings.

Imprint

[London] : Albion Press printed: Published by James Cundee, Ivy - Lane; Paternoster-Row, London, 1806.

Indexed In:

Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925, v. I, p. 609

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4132

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.87-G (accession no. B429232) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 916.87-G lacking final [2] p. with "Directions to the binder for placing the cuts" and a publisher's advertisement. NN

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) -- margin note, in graphite, on p. 134. NN

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) bound in tree patterned brown leather boards. NN

Source

Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. NN

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Added Author

Cundee, J. (James), publisher.

Albion Press (London, England), printer.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.87-G (Gleanings in Africa)

Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection)