Killingly Gibbons (1 results)

First edition, scarce, recounting British colony-building activities in southern Nigeria and Ghana during the Scramble for Africa. It is of "great local and of some historical interest, containing as it does records of treaties made with native Chiefs and the acquisition of territorial and trading rights" (p. 1). Copies are held at the British Library, the universities of Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford, and the National Library of Nigeria. The journal that formed the basis of this volume was passed between various officers active in the Bights of Biafra and Benin between 1884 and 1892. Killingly-Gibbons then compiled and edited the entries two decades later. The first opens with the terms for the establishment of the Niger Coast Protectorate in 1884 under the supervision of HMS Flirt, captain R. W. Craigie. Gibbons's volume then precisely details the following decade, including trade and diplomatic negotiations, accounts of trials and punishments, and the locations and missions of many obscure ships. Robert Killingly-Gibbons (1880-1960) edited this volume while working as an assistant transport officer. He went on to hold a number of other administrative positions across the Gold Coast and British Togoland, such as deputy controller of customs and controlling officer of enemy property. Octavo. Original buff printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. A little soiled and foxed, wear to spine, front wrapper and title page chipped at foot: a very good copy.