Expedition to the River Niger 1848

Title: A Narrative of the Expedition Sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River Niger, in 1841. Under the Command of Captain H.D. Trotter
Author: Allen, William and T[homas] R[ichard] H[eywood] Thomson
Description: 2 volumes bound in one. xviii, 509, [1]; viii, 511, [1] pp. Illustrated with two frontispieces (one a portrait), two folding maps, 17 plates (one folding), and wood-engravings in text. 8¼x5, period morocco prize binding, spine gilt in five compartments and red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. First Edition.Recounts the mission of the "Wilberforce" in suppression of the slave trade. "A thirst for discovery, and the spirit of commercial enterprise, had stimulated all these attempts to penetrate into the interior of Africa. But a new and better motive now arose to produce a far greater effort...the suppression of the Slave Trade" (p.22). The maps are a "Sketch of the West Coast of Africa" and "The Lower Course of the River Niger".
Heading: zzcPlace Published: London
Publisher: R. Bentley
Date Published: 1848

Rebacked with original spine laid down (minor loss around ends and joints), corners worn, first frontispiece and about three plates with some mild spotting, folding plate with a marginal stub tear; else very good.