Indiae Orientalis pars VI. : Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae ad Africam pertinentis quod alias littus de Mina vocant continens qua situs loci ratio vrbium & domorum portus item & flumina varia cum variis incolarum superstitionibus educatione forma commerciis linguis & moribus succincta breuitate explicantur & percensentur
16041612150011Francofurti ad Moenum : Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri 1604-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 parts in one volume. Folio 30 cm. Elegantly bound in modern full red levant moroccan raised bands all edges gilt gilt rule. Fine binding. Engraved vignette on general title; 8 127 pp 1; 1 26 leaves of half-page engraved illustrations. Occasional light browning. Marginal dampstaining to final 20 text pages in first part. Minor spotting in second part plates. First edition first issue of the sixth volume of de Bry's Little Voyages. This volume covers the first-hand account of Pieter de Marees's first Dutch expedition to Guinea 1600-01. <br> Pieter de Marees' history of Guinea originally published in 1602 is one of the earliest detailed European descriptions of West African society and an essential reference for the precolonial period. De Marees wrote primarily about the Gold Coast Ghana but his work also covers Cape Verde Senegal. This work he "discusses the Slave Coast and the Portuguese participation in the traffic". Postma The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade 1600-1815 p. 13. These trade ties would drive European interest in the region leading to the propagation of the Slave Trade. Brunet 1338. Crawford p. 173. Church 213. Francofurti ad Moenum : Ex officina Wolfgangi Richteri hardcover
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