Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the wild coast of South America from the years 1772 to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country & describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana and Negroes of Guinea / by Captain J. G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author ; [introduction and notes by R.A.J. van Lier].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797.

Contributor:

Lier, Rudolf Asveer Jacob van, 1914-

Imprint Society (Barre, Mass.)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797--Travel--Suriname.

Stedman, John Gabriel.

Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797.

Indians of South America.

Slavery.

History.

Travel.

Suriname--Description and travel.

Suriname.

Slavery--Suriname--History--18th century.

Indians of South America--Guiana.

Penn Provenance:

Lier, Rudolf Asveer Jacob van, 1914- (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (480 pages, LXXX pages of plates) : illustrations, folded maps, music ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Narrative of an expedition to Surinam

Stedman narrative of a five year's expedition

Place of Publication:

Barre, Massachusetts : Printed for the Imprint Society, MCMLXXI [1971]

Notes:

With half-titles.

"Nineteen hundred and fifty copies ... have been printed from type of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland. Designed by Richard Hendel of Amherst Massachusetts ... All the original copperplate line and aquatint engravings have been photographed direct from the original and reproduced by offset-lithography ..."

Housed in a slip case.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 269 and signed by R.A.J. van Lier.

Culture Class Collection copy has advertising leaflet (2 p.) laid in.

ISBN:

876360150

OCLC:

491260