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Gleanings in Africa : exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and surrounding country : with a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists : soil, climate, natural productions, &c. &c. &c. : interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent : in a series of letters from an English officer during the period in which that colony was under the protection of the British government. : illustrated with engravings.

Title
Gleanings in Africa : exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and surrounding country : with a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists : soil, climate, natural productions, &c. &c. &c. : interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent : in a series of letters from an English officer during the period in which that colony was under the protection of the British government. : illustrated with engravings.
Publication
[London] : Albion Press printed: Published by James Cundee, Ivy - Lane; Paternoster-Row, London, 1806.

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Additional Authors
  • Cundee, J. (James)
  • Albion Press (London, England), printer.
Description
xxi, [1], 320, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Note
  • "James Cundee, printer, Ivy-Lane"--colophon, p. 320.
  • "Directions to the binder for placing the cuts" and a publisher's advertisement on the final [2] p.
Indexed In (note)
  • Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Source (note)
  • of Sidney Lapidus;
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
  • Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) -- margin note, in graphite, on p. 134.
Binding (note)
  • Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) bound in tree patterned brown leather boards.
Call Number
Sc Rare 916.87-G (Gleanings in Africa)
OCLC
  • 7626174
  • NYPGR7626174-B
Title
Gleanings in Africa : exhibiting a faithful and correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and surrounding country : with a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the colonists : soil, climate, natural productions, &c. &c. &c. : interspersed with observations and reflections on the state of slavery in the southern extremity of the African continent : in a series of letters from an English officer during the period in which that colony was under the protection of the British government. : illustrated with engravings.
Imprint
[London] : Albion Press printed: Published by James Cundee, Ivy - Lane; Paternoster-Row, London, 1806.
Indexed In:
Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925, v. I, p. 609
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4132
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 916.87-G (accession no. B429232) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Local Note
Copy in Sc Rare 916.87-G lacking final [2] p. with "Directions to the binder for placing the cuts" and a publisher's advertisement. NN
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) -- margin note, in graphite, on p. 134. NN
Binding
Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) bound in tree patterned brown leather boards. NN
Source
Copy in Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection) Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. NN
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Cundee, J. (James), publisher.
Albion Press (London, England), printer.
Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 916.87-G (Gleanings in Africa)
Sc Rare C 16-52 (Lapidus Collection)
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