The Expiring Continent: a Narrative of Travel in Senegambia with Observations on Native Character, the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Africa and Colonisation

by Alexander William Mitchinson

$600 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

First edition

Hardcover, London: WM. H. Allen & Co, 1881. First Edition. Octavo, pp. Viii, 469. Frontispiece and 15 additional plates, fold-out map of the author's travels. Re-bound in modern half-calf with gilt spine titles and marbled boards. All page edges have original publisher's gilt. Sporadic age spotting and foxing throughout text including on the title page, map, and some plates. Mitchison was a

• Binding: Hardcover

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