Up The Niger. Narrative Of Major Claude Macdonald's Mission To The Niger And Benue Rivers, West Africa. To Which Is Added A Chapter On Native Musical Instruments By Captain C. R. Day. MOCKLER-FERRYMAN, Augustus Ferryman.

First edition, from the library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, with his pencilled initials to the front free endpaper. This copy is in remarkably bright condition, as characteristic of books from the Brooke-Hitching library. This scarce work is detailed account of the expedition led by Major Macdonald in 1889 to investigates complaints about the Royal Niger Company, with a short treatise on "Native Musical Instruments". Octavo. Original black cloth over bevelled boards, titles to spine and front board in silver, front board decorated with Arabic prayer in silver and medallion in brown, black coated endpapers. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase. With a folding map and 13 platea, 10 of which photographic. Minor rubbing to board edges, cloth and gilt bright and crisp, sporadic faint spotting to contents, inner hinges just starting at endpapers, book block remaining firm; an excellent copy.