First edition. 4to. (xv), 372, xcii pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, five plates (two folding) and three folding maps. Contemporary brown diced russia, rebacked, corners bumped, heraldic stamp in gilt to both boards; marbled edges and endpapers, front free-endpaper excised; scattered foxing and dampstaining; engraved book-plate of Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale, mounted to front paste-down; contemporary ownership signature of William Lowther on title-page.

First edition of the earliest account of the interior of Western Africa, from the library of the Earl of Lonsdale.