Up the Niger.

£1,250 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

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; portrait frontispiece, 13 plates, folding map by E. G. Ravenstein; publisher's 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; xx, 326, 4 pages ads dated September 1892 at end pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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