[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. BURTON, Richard F. (1821–1890). A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. With Notices of…the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro’s Place in Nature. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864.
2 volumes, 8vo. Half–titles, wood–engraved frontispieces (spotting to frontispieces). Early half brown morocco gilt, marbled sides, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt–lettering in two compartments, completely gilt in remainder, top edge gilt, stamp–signed by Root & Son.
SECOND EDITION, with the corrected page number on p. 181. An account of Burton’s last major expedition in West Africa in an attempt to establish trade relations with the Kingdom of Dahome and to protest the Kingdom’s involvement in the slave trade and to investigate charges that King Gelele participated in ritual human sacrifice. Penzer, p. 73.