Botelho, Sebastião Xavier
Sole edition of this privately-printed description of the commercial importance of Portuguese East Africa, especially in regard to its relations with the newly-independent Brazil. The British abolition of the slave trade in 1807 focused its efforts mainly on the trade from the West Coast of Africa, and Portuguese merchants were quick to pivot their attention to the longer routes from Mozambique, which exported nearly a million slaves during the 19th century.
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Large 8vo, (202 x 133 mm). (1) ff., 400 pp., (4), plus 5 large lithographed folding maps and 1 architectural view. Title-page and dedication leaf also lithographed. Bound in slightly later quarter calf over blind-stamped maroon cloth, with gilt titles on spine. An excellent copy, with only minor foxing to plates, clean and fresh.
Provenance: discreet ownership inscription of the celebrated botanist active in Angola, Friedrich Welwitsch (1806-1872) on title-page.
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