Africa.- [Burton (Sir Richard Francis)] "F. R. G. S." Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, portrait frontispiece, lightly spotted, folding engraved map, new endpapers, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrips, scarce early variant with "F. R. G. S." to spine in gilt, [Penzer pp.71-72], 8vo, 1863.

⁂ "It apparently was Burton's original idea to entirely suppress his name from the above work and in his own copy ... there is no clue given to the author, for "By a F. R. G. S.", appears in the back of the book. In all other copies which I have seen, with the exception of that in the British Museum, Burton's name is given in full on the cover ..." (Penzer)

In 1861 Burton took up the post of British consul on the Spanish island of Fernando Po (Bioko, off Cameroon in West Africa) . The work includes descriptions of the gold-mining prospects in both Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Burton was in dispute with Speke over the source of the Nile and was infuriated by the Royal Geographical Society for choosing Speke to lead a second expedition to establish his claim. It was this dispute that lead Burton to issuing this work anonymously.