Twenty-Nine Years in the West Indies and West Africa: A review of missionary work and adventure.

By the Rev. Hope Masterton Waddell, formerly Missionary at Old Calabar. London and Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1863 Cr.8vo. xiv,15-681pp. frontispiece, title vignette and 6 plates, 9 text-illustrations, 4 maps, appendix. The author was a member of the Scottish Missionary Society who writes about the Slave Trade in the West Indies where he witnessed the 1832 insurrection in Jamaica. He then moved to West Africa and worked at Old Calabar, Bonny, etc. from 1846-1858. With important first-hand descriptions of south-eastern Nigeria before the colonial era. Small stain to margin of frontispiece, title page and first plate, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's green blindstamped cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]