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Travels and life in Ashanti and Jaman. / By Richard Austin Freeman Late Assistant Colonial Surgeon, and Anglo-German Boundary Commissioner of the Gold Coast. With about one hundred illustrations by the author and from photographs, and two maps.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 F8778 898t
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin), 1862-1943.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ashanti, 1980-.
- History.
- Ghana--Ashanti.
- Ashanti--Description and travel.
- Ashanti.
- Ashanti--History.
- Jaman (Africa)--Description and travel.
- Jaman (Africa).
- Penn Provenance:
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 559 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (some color, 1 folded), music ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westminster : Archibald Constable & Co., 2 Whitehall Gardens, 1898.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- Author's first book.
- T.p. printed in red and black.
- "The appearance of this book is therefore justified by the extreme paucity of our information relating to Ashanti and by the certainty that this information will not be greatly augmented in the future."--P. xix.
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertisements (Archibald Constable & Co.'s Quarterly List, 1898): 16 p. at end.
- Bright gilt top-edge.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.
- OCLC:
- 4350469
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