Research Catalog

Title

Africa and the American flag / by Commander Andrew H. Foote, U.S. Navy, Lieut. commanding U.S. Brig Perry on the coast of Africa, A.D. 1850-1851.

Author

Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863.

Publication

New York : D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway, and 16 Little Britain, London, MDCCCLIV. [1854]

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Additional Authors

• Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
• D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
• Sarony & Co., lithographer.

Description

390, [18] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., map; 20 cm.

Subjects

• Publishers' advertisements > New York (State) > New York > 19th century
• Slave-trade > Africa, West
• Africa, West > Description and travel
• Liberia > History

Genre/Form

Publishers' advertisements – New York (State) – New York – 19th century.

Note

• Frontispiece included in pagination.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by D. Appleton & Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court on the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Leaves of plates with illustrations signed: "F.E. Forbes, delt.", "Lith. of Sarony & Co. N.Y." Leaf of plates with map signed: "J.J. Adamson, del." "Lith. of Sarony & Co. N.Y."
• Publisher's advertisements, final [18] p.

Indexed In (note)

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

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 966-F (Foote, A. H. Africa and the American flag)

LCCN

05014638

OCLC

• 5527869
• NYPGR5527869-B

Author

Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863.

Title

Africa and the American flag / by Commander Andrew H. Foote, U.S. Navy, Lieut. commanding U.S. Brig Perry on the coast of Africa, A.D. 1850-1851.

Imprint

New York : D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway, and 16 Little Britain, London, MDCCCLIV. [1854]

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3727

Provenance

Copy in Sc 966-F (accession no. B526898) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn), illustrator.

Sarony & Co., lithographer.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 966-F (Foote, A. H. Africa and the American flag)

Sc 966-F (Foote, A. H. Africa and the American flag)

D-19 5874