A Journey to Ashango-Land: and further Penetration into Equatorial Africa
DU CHAILLU, Paul B.
'DISCOVERER OF THE GORILLA'
Published: John Murray, 1867
Stock code: 19693
Price: £345.00
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 21 engraved plates and large folding map at end, map mildly age-stained; dark red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, chocolate endpapers, uncut, neatly rebacked to style, a very good, bright, clean copy.
With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The author's second book is a vividly-written account of his second [1863-1865] expedition around the delta of the Ogooue in what is now Gabon. Here he is able to confirm his 'discovery' (perhaps more accurately 'rediscovery') of the Gorilla, a species previously unseen by outsiders since Biblical times, and the actual discovery of the Giant Otter Shrew (Potamagale velox); both species are illustrated. SCARCE. Hosken, p.63.