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Travels into the inland parts of Africa : containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia
- Title
- Travels into the inland parts of Africa : containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia / by Francis Moore, factor several years to the Royal African Company of England.
- Author
- Moore, Francis, active 1744
- Publication
- London : Printed by Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate, for the author : Sold by J. Stagg, 1738.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person. | Text | Supervised use | BMD (Moore, F. Travels into the inland parts of Africa) | Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- xi, xiii, 305, 86, [4], 23 pages, [12] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, folded map, plans; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Moore, Francis, active 1744
- Gambia
- Stibbs, Bartholomew
- Africa, West > Social life and customs > Early works to 1800
- Royal African Company Early works to 1800
- Africa, North
- Moore, Francis, active 1744 > Travel > Gambia
- Africa, West > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
- Early works
- Indigenous peoples > Gambia > Early works to 1800
- Gambia > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
- Slavery > Gambia > History > Early works to 1800
- Travel
- Stibbs, Bartholomew > Travel > Gambia River
- Slaves > Africa, West > Social conditions > Early works to 1800
- Royal African Company
- Africa > Gambia River
- Natural history > Africa, West > Pre-Linnean works
- Gambia River > Maps > Early works to 1800
- Gambia River > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- Note
- "Travels into the inland parts of Africa, containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia; their trade, habits, customs, language, manners, religion and government; the power, disposition and characters of some negro princes; with a particular account of Job Ben Solomon a Pholey, who was in England in the Year 1733, and known by the Name of the "African." To which is added, Capt. Stibbs's voyage up the Gambia in the year 1723, to make discoveries; with an accurate map of that River taken on the spot: and many other Copper Plates. Also extracts from the Nubion's geography, Leo the African, and other authors antient and modern, concerning the Niger Nile, or Gambia, and observations thereon."
- "Translations from writers, concerning the Niger-Nile, or Gambia" has separate pagination; the register is continuous.
- "A list of words, English and Mundingo" and the appendices have separate pagination and register.
- Includes 5 numbered appendixes at end which are separately paginated.
- "A draught of the River Gambia with the soundings, also all the kingdoms, most of the principal towns, and the Royal African companies factories situated upon it, in a course of 500 miles up the same."-- preceding page 19.
- "A draught of a Pholey Town and plantations about it."-- preceding page 35.
- Includes errata (p. xiii).
- Lapidus Collection copy has a bookplate of Professor John Ralph Willis of Princeton on front paste-down.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface -- Letter to the publisher -- Travels into the inland parts of Africa, &c. -- Journal of a voyage up the Gambia: being an attempt for making discoveries, and improving the trade of that river / by Mess. Bartholomew Stibbs, Edward Drummond, and Richard Hull, in the year 1723 -- Observations on the foregoing journal, and on the following remarks made by Mr. Stibbs concerning the River Gambia -- Translations from writers, concerning the Niger-Nile, or Gambia: a translation of such part of the Nubian's Geography, as relates to the Niger-Nile, of which the Gambia is supposed to be one mouth -- Extracts translated out of Leo the African -- Extracts from John Leo the African's Geographical history of Africa -- A list of words, English and Mundingo -- Appendix no. I: Contract of the author with the African Company -- Appendix no. II: Instructions to be observed by Messrs. Wilmlia Roberts and Francis Moore, Factors, at Joar -- Appendix no. III: Transcript of a paper discovering a quantity of gold up the River Gambia -- Appendix no. IV: Extracts of letters from the chief merchants at Gambia, to the Royal African Company, relating to the gum-trade -- Appendix no. V: The Royal African Company's establishment at James Fort, in the River Gambia, 1730.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare D 16-30 (Lapidus Collection)
- LCCN
- 05014443
- OCLC
- 5341660
- Author
- Moore, Francis, active 1744, author.
- Title
- Travels into the inland parts of Africa : containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia / by Francis Moore, factor several years to the Royal African Company of England.
- Publisher
- London : Printed by Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate, for the author : Sold by J. Stagg, 1738.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Stibbs, Bartholomew, author.Cave, Edward, 1691-1754, printer.Stagg, John, -1746, bookseller.Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550. Della descrittione dell'Africa. English.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Moore, Francis, active 1744. Travels into the inland parts of Africa: containing a description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the River Gambia. London, Printed by E. Cave for the author, 1738 (OCoLC)647380582
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare D 16-30 (Lapidus Collection)Sc Rare 916.65-M (Moore, F. Travels into the inland parts of Africa)BMD (Moore, F. Travels into the inland parts of Africa)