The John Anscombe Library (Part 2)
Wednesday, 30 July - Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Skertchly J A - Dahomey As It Was
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Lot Details
Being A Narrative Of Eight Months Residence In That Country, With A Full Account Of The Notorious Annual Customs, And The Social And Religious Institutions Of The Ffons; Also An Appendix On Ashantee, And A Glossary of Dahoman Words and Titles. With Illustrations From Sketches By The Author, plus folding map of Dahomey with Part of Ashanti, . Chapman And Hall, London, first edition, 1874, xx, 524pp, half red morocco, marbled fore-edges and EPs, ex library, spine sellotaped at either end.
