(AFRICA TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION) STARR FREDERICK Narrative o

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(AFRICA--TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION.) STARR, FREDERICK. Narrative of the Expedition dispatched to Musahdu [sic] by the Liberian Government under Benjamin J.K. Anderson Sr. Esq. in 1874. 43 pages. 8vo, later 1/4 black morocco and marbled paper-covered boards; a couple of small ex-institutional marks on the title-page and at the foot of the Introduction. Monrovia: College of West Africa Press, 1912

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first and only edition, one of 500 copies printed. There were two notable expeditions into the interior of Liberia in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The account of the first expedition of 1868, led by Benjamin Anderson, was published in New York in 1870 (see previous lot). Frederick Starr, the editor of the present account, notes that the account of the second expedition also led by Anderson was meant to be published in 1874, but only appeared serially in "The Observer," a magazine printed in Monrovia. The present booklet is the first published account of Anderson's second expedition. The editor (Frederick Starr) was a Liberian citizen, as were all concerned with the printing of this work.