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xxiii, [5], 355, [1] pp. With portrait frontispiece, folding map, plate, and text illustration.(4to), 28x20 cm (11x8"), full period calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. First Edition.

With the decorative bookplate of Admiral [Charles Edmund?] Nugent. Hugh Clapperton was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa, and the first European explorer in West Africa to return with a firsthand account of the region now known as northern Nigeria. Clapperton's discoveries led directly to the opening of sustained European contact with an important region of sub-Saharan Africa. On his second expedition Clapperton died of malaria & dysentery near Sokoto (Nigeria). His traveling companion, Richard Sander, was the only survivor, and returned with records of the expedition which were published in 1829 as this journal, a classic narrative of early exploration into the interior of Africa. Scarce.