THOMAS, Charles W. Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa and Its Islands.

Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madeira, Canary, Biafra and Cape Verd Islands; Their Climates, Inhabitants and Productions.  Accounts of Places, Peoples, Customs, Trade, Missionary Operations, etc., etc., On that part of the African coast lying between Tangier, Morocco and Benguela. 

Mobile: John F. Early, 1860.

Small 8vo.; brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind.

First edition, with frontispiece illustration. A presentation copy, inscribed “For the President’s Private Libaray from Charles Thomas St. Bride’s Plantation Griffin, Georgia,” on the front free endpaper; additionally inscribed “To his Excellency President Grant. With the sincere prayer that in spite of all conventions of traitors, he may, by the blessings of God, be ‘Our President’ for the next decade; and this he will be, if the people are allowed to speak out their wants & wishes; and with the sincere confidence of respect of his unseen friend the Author On his farm near ‘Griffin, Ga.,’” on the front pastedown.