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Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo

Published 1825
Author Bowdich, Thomas Edward
Contributor Bowdich, Sarah
Title Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, during the Autumn of 1823, While on His Third Voyage to Africa; by the Late T. Edward Bowdich, Esq. Conductor of the Mission to Ashantee, Honorary Member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Member of Various Other Learned Societies Both Foreign and Domestic. To Which Is Added, by Mrs. Bowdich, I. A Narrative of the Continuance of the Voyage to Its Completion, Together with the Subsequent Occurrences from Mr. Bowdich’s Arrival in Africa to the Period of His Death. II. A Description of the English Settlements on the River Gambia. III. Appendix: Containing Zoological and Botanical Descriptions, and Translations from the Arabic. Illustrated by Sections, Views, Costumes, and Zoological Figures.
Publisher’s imprint London: George B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane. MDCCCXXV [1825].
Printer’s colophon London: Printed by William Clowes, Northumberland-Court.
Format 4o; 1 vol.: pp. xii. 278; plates
Sources Lawrence; NSTC 2B43265
Copy inspected Google SUL
Notes
  1. Dedicated ‘To the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, K.G.’ [Henry Bathurst, third Earl Bathurst (1762-1834; ODNB)].

  2. Reviews: London Literary Gaz., no. 435 (21 May 1825): 323-25; New Monthly Mag. 15 (1 July 1825): 317; Bulletin des sciences naturelles et de géologie 6 (1825): 396-98.

  3. Full text links: Google

Genre Narrative
BTW record no. BTW1026
Region Western Africa

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