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12mo, pp. iv, 28; a little light foxing, light damp staining to lower margins; very good; without covers, strip of contemporary marbled paper to spine.An apparently unrecorded humorous handbook of drinking rules for students at the university of Jena, famous as a centre of German idealism and Romanticism.Arranged in numbered paragraphs, in parodical imitation of contemporary legal codes, the text covers pre-drinking etiquette; drinking games, including duels known as 'Bierscandal'; disqualification due to improper behaviour or drunkenness, called 'Bierverschiss'; rejoining festivities upon recovering some semblance of sobriety; singing; and 'legal' matters, including the settling of disputes with recourse to the 'Codex Cerevisiae' (a reference to the peakless student cap known as a 'cerevis').No copies are recorded on OCLC or KVK, which list comparable codes around the same period for Göttingen and Heidelberg.
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Journal of a residence in Ashantee: Comprising notes and researches relative to the Gold Coast, and the interior of Western Africa; chiefly collected from Arabic MSS and information communicated by the Moslems of Guinea: to which is prefixed an account of the origin and causes of the presen
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First edition of this illustrated account of the Gold Coast by Joseph Dupuis (1789-1874), British consul at Mogador.The first part comprises a description of Dupuis's journey to Kumasi (in modern-day Ghana) and his audience with the Ashanti king, with sections on, for example, 'seductive arts of the females', 'magical rites and superstitions', 'human sacrifices', 'merchandize suitable for African markets', and 'the slave trade'. The second part is devoted to the geography of Western Africa, and the various appendices include details of the treaty brokered by Dupuis with the Ashanti king, and transcriptions and translations of Arabic manuscripts describing various routes in the region. The splendid plates, by C. Williams after Dupuis's drawings, include native men and women and their costume (e.g. priests and soldiers), a view of the Pra River, examples of Ashanti sculpture, and panoramic depictions of various ceremonies.Dupuis, who was married to Evelina Danby, daughter of the painter J.M.W. Turner,…
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