Up the Niger.
Narrative of Major Claude Macdonald's Mission to the Niger and Benue rivers, West Africa. To which is added a Chapter on Native Musical Instruments by Captain C. R. Day.
Stock Code 96068
London: George Philip & Son, 1892
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Mockler-Ferryman's account of the expedition led by Major MacDonald in 1889 to investigate complaints about the Royal Nigerian Company. Includes a treatise on local musucal instuments.
First edition. 8vo, xx, 326 pp., 4 pages ads dated September 1892 at end, oportrait frontispiece, 13 plates, folding map by E. G. Ravenstein, original black cloth over bevelled boards, titles to spine and front board in silver, front board decorated with Arabic prayer in silver and medallion in brown, black coated endpapers, housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase, a fine copy.
First edition. 8vo, xx, 326 pp., 4 pages ads dated September 1892 at end, oportrait frontispiece, 13 plates, folding map by E. G. Ravenstein, original black cloth over bevelled boards, titles to spine and front board in silver, front board decorated with Arabic prayer in silver and medallion in brown, black coated endpapers, housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase, a fine copy.
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