230 - [Africa]. SNELGRAVE, Guillaume. COULANGE, A. Fr. D. de, trans.

[Africa]. SNELGRAVE, Guillaume. COULANGE, A. Fr. D. de, trans. A New Account of Certain Places in Guinea and the Slave Trade Conducted There. Amsterdam, published by the Company, 1735. In-12, (12) ff. (including title page and dedication), 348 pp., title in red and black, one fold-out map. Contemporary marbled fawn sheepskin, ribbed spine, red title label, panels decorated with fleurons and double gilt borders, marbled edges (worn corners, scuffs on the spine and at the joints, small losses to the top cap, tiny tear in the margin of the map near the tab). A rare early French translation, published one year after the original English edition. An account by a slave-trading captain who traded and sailed in the Gulf of Guinea and West Africa. Includes a large fold-out map engraved in black on copper by d’Anville, depicting the coast of Guinea and dated 1729. Although the author himself participated in the slave trade and defended the practice, this work is now a major historical account of the trade routes, slave markets, and coastal societies of West Africa in the early 18th century. Old signature on a flyleaf [Carvathione]. Chadenat, 5130.