Africa.- Cameron (Verney Lovett) Across Africa, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces and 27 plates, 4 plates of facsimiles (3 folding), folding colour map in pocket at end (slightly browned), numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 4pp. & 8pp. publisher's catalogues at ends, Humphrey Winterton's copy with his book-label, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, a good copy, 8vo, 1877.

⁂ Fascinating account of a journey across Africa, originally in search of Livingstone but on learning of his death continued as exploration. Cameron describes the manners and customs of the indigenous peoples encountered, and comments on the slave trade and its consequences; he was the first European to cross Equatorial Africa from east to west.