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A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. Wood-engraved frontispieces. Half-title in first volume, lacking in the second. 2 volumes. 8vo, original purple cloth, spines faded, tops damaged, Volume 1 hinges cracked; Volume 1 opening leaves foxed, library shelf stamp on half-title and on back of Volume 2 frontispiece. London, 1864
first edition. "Possibly the best of Burton's West African books. It describes his attempt to dissuade the notorious African King Gelele from the custom of human sacrifice and the practice of slave-trading" (DLB). Casada 47; Penzer, pages 72-73.
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