BURTON, Richard F.
Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains.
Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains.
An Exploration.
Stock Code 120733
London, Tinsley, 1863.
An account of a journey, whilst on his first solo consular posting to Fernando Po, in search of gorillas and cannibal tribes, inspired by reading Du Chaillu's recently published book on equatorial Africa. The official pretext for the trip was to secure Britain's influence on the seaboard of Yoruba, and to explore the mountains which Burton felt had possibilities as a convict station, a free African colony, or as a sanitorium.
First edition, first issue; 2 vols, 8vo (21 x 14.5 cm); photographic frontispiece portrait, 4 wood-engraved plates, folding map with small tear to hinge, touch of spotting to frontispiece; publisher's original blindstamped green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, discreet restorations to spines, a very good set preserved in a modern cloth slipcase; xvi, 333; v, 306pp.
Casada 25; Penzer pp 70-71.
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