The History of a Slave (1889)

Hardcover, red pictorial cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine. pp. (2) + xii + 168. 47 Engraved plates. Foxing on end papers, small tears at spine ends,  light wear to boards, otherwise very good+. " ... an attempt to give a realistic sketch of life in the Western Sudan. It is the outcome of some considerable experience of the Dark Continent, but is especially based on what I have seen and heard while travelling in North Africa, in the Niger Delta, and on the Cross River".