The Golden Trade

London: The Penguin Press, 1932. Hardcover. xix, 217p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, corners bumped, offsetting to endpapers else very good first Penguin Press edition. No dj. Originally published in 1623. The annals of Jobson's foray into the gold trade for the Company of Adventurers of London in the 1620s.

3 p.l. (lacking the first leaf, a blank; title a little soiled), 143, 152-66 pp. Small 4to, cont. English limp vellum. London: N. Okes for N. Bourne, 1623.<p> First edition of one of the great early English accounts of the exploration of the interior of Africa and the first to be published separately (others appear in collections); it is… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1932. Hardcover. Good. xix, 218p. Black cloth. 22cm. Spine lettering almost completely gone. Library gift bookplate but no other library markings. No Jacket.

By Richard Jobson, 1623, now reprinted for the first time; edited by Charles G. Kingsley, with woodcut ornamentation based on West African designs by R. Morton Nance. (The Saracen's Head Library, The Mary Kingsley Travel Books, I.) Teignmouth, Devonshire: Speight and Walpole, 1904 Square 8vo. xvii,210pp. Richard Jobson was a merchant and travel writer who… Read more about this item

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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