Journal Of an Expedition To Explore the Course and Termination Of the Niger

London. Good with no dust jacket. 1832. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE COURSE AND TERMINATION OF THE NIGER; With a Narrative of a Voyage down that River to its Termination. Vol II (of 3). Quarter brown leather and purple cloth, gilt-decorated spine with black labels, “Family Library… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1833. Second edition. Leather-bound. Good Plus. 3 volumes. 12mo. 6 1/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. Three-quarter bound over blue stone marbled boards. Mild wear to extremities. Recent leather touchup repair to top left of each volume's front board, and extremities. Rebacked with original spine Attractive red Morocco spine labels, ruled in gilt with… Read more about this item

John Murray, London., 1832. 1st. Ed.. Three volume set complete; each volume with frontis., plus two maps (one being fold-out), 4 further plates and 1-page of adverts at rear of Vol. II. Small 8vo. Hardbacks. Some spotting to fore-edges of text blocks and occasionally internally, o/w. contents clean and fine. Bound in original light brown printed cloth boards, showing… Read more about this item

John Murray, London., 1832. 1st. Ed.. Three volume set complete; each volume with frontis., plus two maps (one being fold-out), 4 further plates and 1-page of adverts at rear of Vol. II. Small 8vo. Hardbacks. Very minor spotting, o/w. contents exceptionally clean and fine. Bound in original light brown printed cloth boards, showing a little shelf wear, o/w. in… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. John Lander (1806-1839) and his brother Richard (1804-1834) were the first Europeans to follow the course of the Niger to its terminus in the Atlantic. First published in 1832; this is a Very Good (Minus) set of an early printing from seven years later. Historical significance and not common. Two small volumes of Harper's… Read more about this item

London, Murray, 1832. . First edition. 3 volumes, small 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, 2 maps (1 folding), light spotting to plates, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, a fine set. one of the great African narratives completing the navigaton of the river niger. Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant on his second… Read more about this item

J & J Harper. NY., 1832 Smallish book about 4 by 6 inches with some 337 pages plus two pages of publisher ads at the rear. Bound in thin tan cloth over boards. Covers with printed title and other information. Book No. XXXVI in the publisher Family Library series. Illustrated with three in-text images and one tissue guarded plate. An… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. HB. Embossed green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 16mo, 384 pp., frontis portrait of Richard Lander, two maps (1 fold-out). No marks in book, binding tight. Minor foxing to preliminaries. Covers clean with very little wear, corners bumped. Book condition VG. Volume I only, of a 2 volume set.

London: Thomas Tegg and Son. Good with no dustjacket. 1838. Second Edition. Hardcover. Internally fine, Vol. 1 the binding is good, Vol. 2 backstrip is detatched. .

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1843. 2 vols., 384 + 337, [1] pp., frontispieces and plates in each volume, folding map in the first; rebound in modern black cloth with endpapers added, occasional light foxing, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We… Read more about this item