With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals.
First edition. Folding frontispiece and map, with 72 other illustrations. 8vo. Original decorated brown cloth, top and base of spine worn, otherwise a very good copy. xviii, 479pp. London, 1861.
The first work to document the existence of the gorilla. ‘A noted if somewhat controversial travel-writer in his day … He was among the first white men to trek into gorilla territory, and some of his remarks and sketches were viewed as being fictional by “experts” of that era’ (Czech).Czech, p53; Hoskin p63.
