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(AFRICA—TRAVEL
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EXPLORATION.)
STARR,
FREDERICK.
Narrative of the
Expedition dispatched to Musahdu
[sic] by the Liberian Government
under Benjamin J.K. Anderson Sr.
Esq. in 1874.
43 pages. 8vo, later
1
/
4
black
morocco and marbled paper-covered
boards; a couple of small ex-institutional
marks on the title-page and at the foot of
the Introduction.
Monrovia: College of West Africa Press,
1912
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
,
ONE OF
500
COPIES PRINTED
.
There were two notable
expeditions into the interior of Liberia in the
latter half of the nineteenth century.The account
of the first expedition of 1868, led by Benjamin
Anderson, was published in NewYork in 1870
(see previous lot). Frederick Starr, the editor of
the present account, notes that the account of the
second expedition also led by Anderson was
meant to be published in 1874, but only
appeared serially in “The Observer,” a
magazine printed in Monrovia. The present
booklet is the first published account of
Anderson’s second expedition. The editor
(Frederick Starr) was a Liberian citizen, as were
all concerned with the printing of this work.
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