Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 324

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
RICKETTS, [-]. Narrative of the Ashantee War: with a View of the Present State of the Colony of Sierra Leone. Lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding plates; double-page map. iv, 221 pages. 8vo, 214x134 mm, later 19th-century tan calf gilt by Riviere with red and black morocco lettering pieces; folding plates heavily foxed, map browned, scattered foxing on text leaves. London, 1831

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first edition of an account of the First Anglo-Ashanti War of 1823-31.