The Discovery of River Gambia (1623).

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: The Hakluyt Society 2001. Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. Dustjacket. (xlii 428pp.). With frontisp. and 29 illusts some full-page. 1st edition. Previous owner's sign. and stamp on front fly-leaf and stamp on rear endpaper otherwise a fine copy. (Hakluyt Society Series III Vol. 7). NOTE: An account by a Portuguese interpreter and traveller of Japanese life and culture in the early seventeenth century.