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Title

An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them / by Thomas Winterbottom, M.D. physician to the colony of Sierra Leone ; vol. I[-II].

Author

Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.

Publication

London : Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street; and sold by John Hatchard, 199, Piccadilly, and J. Mawman, Poultry, 1803.

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Additional Authors

• Hatchard, John, 1769-1849
• Mawman, Joseph, 1759-1827
• Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840

Description

2 v. : ill., map, plan; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Slaves > Sierra Leone
• Sierra Leone > Languages
• Sierra Leone > Social life and customs
• Medicine > Sierra Leone
• Temne language
• Susu language
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Northern Bullom language
• Sierra Leone > Description and travel

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Vol. 2 deals entirely with medicine.
• Vol. 1: xi, [5], 362, [22] p., [8] leaves of plates (4 folded); v. 2: [4], 283, [12] p.
• "Errata" on final page in each volume.
• Appendixes: [v.1] Description of the colony of Sierra Leone. Meterological account of Sierra Leone. Account of the termites. Vocabulary of the Bullom and Timmanee languages. Vocabulary of the Soosoo languages -- [v. 2] An account of circumcision as it is practised on the windward coast of Africa. An account of the African bark. Remarks of Professor Blumenbach upon Negroes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indexed In (note)

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

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding title page in both volumes "D.C. Colesworthy." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.64-W (Winterbottom, T. M. Account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone)

OCLC

8315155

Author

Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.

Title

An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them / by Thomas Winterbottom, M.D. physician to the colony of Sierra Leone ; vol. I[-II].

Imprint

London : Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street; and sold by John Hatchard, 199, Piccadilly, and J. Mawman, Poultry, 1803.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 11326

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.64-W (accession nos. B512775, B512776/B519467) inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding title page in both volumes "D.C. Colesworthy." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 916.64-W imperfect: lacking frontispiece and map facing p. 1 of v. 1; title-page and p. [iii] of v. 1 mutilated.

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Added Author

Hatchard, John, 1769-1849, bookseller.

Mawman, Joseph, 1759-1827, bookseller.

Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840, printer.

Colesworthy, D. C. (Daniel Clement), 1810-1893, former owner.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.64-W (Winterbottom, T. M. Account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone)