Description

Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, with small pictorial paste-down on front cover and housed in publisher’s maroon slipcase. 203 pages. Illustrated with half-tone engravings and map end-papers. Contains a glossary at rear. First edition thus. Praised for its unvarnished truthfulness and egalitarian tone, Park’s tale of his 1795 -1797 journey to trace the course of the Niger River met with immediate success. Previous owner’s bookplate affixed to half-title page and his name and address stamped on lower title-page. Else a clean, fresh and unmarked copy in like slipcase. Very good+ in a very good+ slipcase.