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Additional authors

1. Linney, John L.
2. Hamilton, Adams, & Co., publisher.

Description

1. xvi, 648, lvi p., [18] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., maps; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. South Africa > Description and travel
2. Missions > South Africa
3. Mauritius > Description and travel
4. Indigenous peoples > South Africa

Call number

1. Sc Rare 916.8-B (Backhouse, J. Narrative of a visit to the Mauritius)

Note

1. "York: Printed by John L. Linney."--verso of title page.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
2. Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Backhouse, James, 1794-1869.

Title

1. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa / by James Backhouse ; illustrated by two maps, sixteen etchings, and twenty-eight wood-cuts.

Imprint

1. London : Hamilton, Adams and Co. Paternoster Row ; York : John L. Linney, Low Ousegate, 1844.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 749
2. Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925, I:62

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 916.8-B (accession no. B526863) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
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Added author

1. Hamilton, Adams, & Co., publisher.
2. Linney, John L., publisher, printer.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 04022785

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 916.8-B (Backhouse, J. Narrative of a visit to the Mauritius)
2. BND (Backhouse, J. Narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa)