HAWKINS, JOSEPH

A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa, and Travels into the Interior of that Country... and Interesting Particulars Concerning the Slave Trade. 12mo, contemporary sheep, worn; evenly browned throughout. Troy, 1797 Lacking the plate called for by Evans, but apparently not bound into this copy. This is the first Troy printing, following the true Philadelphia first of the same year. Hawkins' account is the first of its type written by an American. He travelled for 2 years through Ibo country and discusses the slave trade at length. Evans 32240.