A narrative of the expedition sent

by Her Majesty's government to the River Niger, in 1841. Under the command of Captain H. D. Trotter by William Allen

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First edition

London: Richard Bentley, 1848. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xviii, 509, 1 ; viii, 511, 1 ; engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 maps 2 folding, 1 hand-colored in outline , 16 engraved copperplates 1 folding , 2 wood-engraved plates, a hand-colored geological cross-section, and numerous wood engravings in the text; old library rubberstamps on both title pages, otherwise a very good copy in modern brown buckram, gilt lettering and fillets on spines. The

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