Observations on the Slave Trade, and a Description of some part of the Coast of Guinea, during a Voyage, made in 1787, and 1788, in company with Doctor A. Sparrman and Captain Arrehenius. London, Printed and Sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1789.

WADSTRÖM, CARL BERNHARD:

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Pp. (ii), xii, 67. Title page lightly water-stained and restored at upper margin verso without any loss. Somewhat later green half calf, flat spine stamped in gilt, somewhat rubbed, boards with slight discolouration. Small library label on front endpaper. First rare edition. Sabin 100906. Goldsmiths 14021.Carl Bernard Wadström (1746?99), known as the Swedish philanthropist and Swedenborgian who was involved in the British abolitionist movement. In 1787 the Swedish King Gustav III sent Wadström, together with two other Swedes (Carl Axel Arrhenius and Anders Sparrman) to Guinea to investigate the possibility of establishing a Swedish West African colony. Upon Wadström's return he stayed in England to attend a Swedenborgian conference and was drawn into the ongoing English antislavery campaign. He published this work and "An Essay on Colonization" (1794-5) in which he exposed the cruelties of slavery and claimed that the Africans were worth more as trading partners and wage labourers than as slaves. The works won much recognition around Europe. See: Beskow ?Minne af Öfver-direktören Carl Bernard Wadström? (1861). Cf Dahlgren ?Carl Bernard Wadström?.BOUND WITH (Preceded by): [COSTE D'ARNOBAT, C.-P.]: Voyage au pays de Bambouc, suivi d'observations intéressantes sur les castes indiennes, sur la Hollande et sur l'Angleterre. Bruxelles & Paris 1789. Pp. (iv), 358. Barbier IV 1060. AND: WADSTRÖM, C.B.: Précis sur l'établissement des colonies de Sierra Léona et de Boulama. Paris, Ch. Pougens, 1798. Pp. viii, 80 (of 94), missing 14 pages. French edition. Brunet vi, 28428. Gay 2854. Sabin 100907. Quérard X, 464. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 100119

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