4to (265 x 209 mm). Lithographic hand-colored frontispiece, 18 lithographic plates (2 hand-colored, 6 folding, 4 in-text woodcut illustrations. (Some spotting or minor creasing.) Contemporary calf gilt, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt, blind and gilt decoration to sides, edges marbled, marbled endsheets (sympathetically rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: Rev. Dr. Bellamy (presentation inscription).

 

FIRST EDITION, A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR, inscribed to Rev. Dr. Bellamy by Bowditch’s wife. Bowdich’s text was completed and edited posthumously by his wife, Sarah, who contributed 3 additional sections: “A narrative of the Continuance of the Voyage to its Completion,” “A Description of the English Settlements on the River Gambia,” and the “Appendix.” Abbey Travel  190; Colas 418.