Akan Weights and The Gold Trade

Longman. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. First edition hardcover. Corners lightly bumped else tight and square. Folding chart at rear. The DJ in mylar is lightly worn. ; Legon History Series; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

Longman Publishing Group, 1980. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, Table tipped in at rear, maps, xix + 393pp.

Longman Group Limited, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Longman Group Limited 1980. Fine hardcover in a fine dust jacket. Includes fold-out of Weight Names for Ghana and Ivory Coast with equivalent in grams, with a second copy laid in. .

Legon History Series. London: Longman, 1980 Med.8vo. xix,393pp. 61 plates, several illustrations, 3 maps, folding chart of Ghanaian and Ivorian weight names with gram equivalents, biblio., index, dw. Timothy Francis Garrard (1943-2007) entered the service of the Ghanaian government in 1967 as the Senior State Attorney. After involving himself in Ghanaian archaeology,… Read more about this item

London: Longman Group Limited, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 9 1/2" x 6 1/4", xxii, 393 pages, black and white illustration on title-page, 61 black and white plates, 3 maps, detailed appendices, glossary, bibliography, folded table of weight-names tipped in on rear fixed endpaper. A cultural history rather than an economic… Read more about this item

1980. First edition. Hardcover. New/as new. 1980, 393pp., plus fold-out table, illustrated. A comprehensive history of the goldweights of the Akan peoples of West Africa, analyzing the system of gold weights, their production, artistic creation, and importance for the period 1400-1900. This is also a cultural history of the Akan civilization brought to life by one of… Read more about this item