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A new voyage to Guinea : describing the customs, manners, soil, climate, habits, buildings, education... habitations, diversions, marriages, and whatever else is memorable among the inhabitants : likewise, an account of their animals, minerals, etc., with great variety of entertaining incidents, worthy of observation, that happen'd during the author's travels in that large country

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Type of record: Book

Title: A new voyage to Guinea : describing the customs, manners, soil, climate, habits, buildings, education... habitations, diversions, marriages, and whatever else is memorable among the inhabitants : likewise, an account of their animals, minerals, etc., with great variety of entertaining incidents, worthy of observation, that happen'd during the author's travels in that large country

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Classmark: BC Trv/SMI

Creator(s): Smith, William (fl. 1726)

Publisher: Printed for J. Nourse

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1744

Language: English

Size and medium: iv, 276 p., 5 plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280871

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001274889705181

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Includes index.

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Armorial bookplate of John Brownlow, Baron Charleville and Viscount Tyrconnel, 18th century, pasted inside front cover. Later bookplate, headed Belton House (ie. Brownlow family seat, Grantham, Lincs.) pasted on recto of flyleaf, the latter detached, but now repaired. The Belton House bookplate bears the coronet of the earls of Brownlow, ie. 1815-1921

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