Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains. An exploration

by Richard F. Burton

$4,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 333, 2 ads; v, 1 , 306, 2 ads; photographic portrait of the author from a painting , 4 plates and a map; near fine in original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Penzer, p. 70: Portraits in his works are rare. Casada 25: The work had two basic purposes; suggested measures to 'secure our Britain's influence upon the seaboard of Yoruba' and descriptions of Burton's

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