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An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them
- Title
- An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them / by Thomas Winterbottom, M.D. physician to the colony of Sierra Leone ; vol. I[-II].
- Author
- Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
- Publication
- London : Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street; and sold by John Hatchard, 199, Piccadilly, and J. Mawman, Poultry, 1803.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare 916.64-W (Winterbottom, T. M. Account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone) v. 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare 916.64-W (Winterbottom, T. M. Account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone) v. 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 2 v. : ill., map, plan; 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Note
- Vol. 2 deals entirely with medicine.
- Vol. 1: xi, [5], 362, [22] p., [8] leaves of plates (4 folded); v. 2: [4], 283, [12] p.
- "Errata" on final page in each volume.
- Appendixes: [v.1] Description of the colony of Sierra Leone. Meterological account of Sierra Leone. Account of the termites. Vocabulary of the Bullom and Timmanee languages. Vocabulary of the Soosoo languages -- [v. 2] An account of circumcision as it is practised on the windward coast of Africa. An account of the African bark. Remarks of Professor Blumenbach upon Negroes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Indexed In (note)
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
- Provenance (note)
- inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding title page in both volumes "D.C. Colesworthy." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 916.64-W (Winterbottom, T. M. Account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone)
- OCLC
- 8315155
- Author
- Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
- Title
- An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them / by Thomas Winterbottom, M.D. physician to the colony of Sierra Leone ; vol. I[-II].
- Imprint
- London : Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street; and sold by John Hatchard, 199, Piccadilly, and J. Mawman, Poultry, 1803.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Indexed In:
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 11326
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 916.64-W (accession nos. B512775, B512776/B519467) inscribed: in ink on recto of free endleaf preceding title page in both volumes "D.C. Colesworthy." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Local Note
- Copy in Sc Rare 916.64-W imperfect: lacking frontispiece and map facing p. 1 of v. 1; title-page and p. [iii] of v. 1 mutilated.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Hatchard, John, 1769-1849, bookseller.Mawman, Joseph, 1759-1827, bookseller.Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840, printer.Colesworthy, D. C. (Daniel Clement), 1810-1893, former owner.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 916.64-W (Winterbottom, T. M. Account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone)