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Title: Journal of a Second Expedition Into the Interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benim to Soccatoo. To Which is Added the Journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the Sea-coast, Partly by a More Eastern Route. Author: Clapperton, Hugh [Captain] Place: London Publisher: John Murray Date: 1829 Description: 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and scuffing to calf, boards detached but present along with folding map and some blank pages at front and rear; some foxing and light dampstaining to frontispiece, not affecting actual portrait, dampstaining area to pages at front and rear, some dampstaining to map, mostly to margins, scattered pencil underlining; overall about good. Item number: 285523