The Expiring Continent: A Narrative of Travel in Senegambia, with Observations on Native Character, the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Africa and Colonisation

Original brown pictorial cloth boards. Dark brown end papers. viii prelims, 469 pages, 15 of the 16 black and white plates - no frontis, the fold out map at the rear is present. CONDITION DETAILS: The front end paper, the half title page and the frontis piece are missing. Although these are fatal flaws, what remains of the book is in decent condition. The binding has some wear at the top of the spine and appears to have had minor repairs. The hinges are cracked.