The River Congo from its Mouth to Bolobo. With a general history of the natural history and anthropology of its western basin (1895)

Bookplate of James G L Penderel-Brodhurst, Count de Boscobel, author and book-collector, on the front paste-down, and another owner signature on the title-page.

Revised from the first edition of 1884 and with the author's more than seventy original drawings, numbered with the text.

The red cloth-boards, gilt lettered to the spine, include the words "Travel and Adventure", as the author, who dedicated the book to Henry Moreland Stanley "in memory of great kindness shown to its author", preferred to describe his work not as fresh exploration but as a guide-book. xv + 300 pp of illustrated text + a 32 pp list from one of the leading publishers of the time. The covers are lightly rubbed, the canvas between sections P and Q is visible, the binding is tight, the top edge is gilt, the endpapers and first and last leaves are foxed and some other pages are sunned towards the edges.