Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816

Collection History

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Collection Data

Names
Tuckey, James Hingston, 1776-1816 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1818
Place: New York
Publisher: W.B. Gilley
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 916.75-T (Tuckey, J. K. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire)
Topics
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel
Congo River
Kongo language
Genres
Books
Illustrations
Maps
Notes
Statement of responsibility: under the direction of Captain J.K. Tuckey, R.N. To which is added, the journal of Professor Smith; and some general observations on the country and its inhabitants. Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Content: "A vocabulary of the Malemba and Embomma languages": p. [395]-410.
Physical Description
Extent: Lxxxi, 410 p. front. (fold. map) illus. 22 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR27834193-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11720521
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 241c9ce0-c622-012f-fb5d-58d385a7bc34
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