24. Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts (London, 1705).

Willem Bosman (1672–c.1703) was a Dutch merchant employed by the Dutch West India Company. After returning to The Netherlands, he published in 1703 an account in Dutch of the geography, peoples and history of the Gold Coast which became a bestseller.

An English-language translation went through two separate editions in 1705.

This copy was bought in 1858 to replace one noted as missing from Marsh’s Library in 1766.