BEACHEY, R. W. A Collection of Documents on the Slave Trade of Eastern Africa. London, Rex Collings, 1976.
8vo. Original boards with dust-wrappers; pp. xii, 140, sketch maps; a little rubbing to margins of wrappers; otherwise fine.
First edition of this collection of documents ranging from antiquity (Periplus) over Chinese sources (such as Ch'eng Shi's writings, 9th century AD) and Arabic writer to European texts, including the control of the Trucial Coast.
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