Raynors HCA 2018-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/20/2018
Book, “ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA; performed by His Majesty's Sloop Favourite, in the Year 1805. Being a Journal of the Events which happened to that Vessel, from the time of her leaving England till her capture by the French, and the return of the Author in a Cartel”, by F.B. SPILSBURY, London, 44pp., with 1807, VG. he author was the surgeon on board the Favourite and the nine spectacular illustrations are after his own drawings. In addition to his account, which includes detailed descriptions of his medical duties, Spilsbury visits a slave ship, discusses the slave trade and its impending abolition.
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