African Flora
ELLIOT, George Francis Scott.
A naturalist in mid-Africa. Being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika. London, A.D. Innes & Co., 1896.
8vo, pp. xvi, 413, [3]; with numerous illustations (some full-page) and four maps, three folding (with some repairs to tears to versos); very good in original pictorial brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt vignette to upper cover, dark blue endpapers; some wear to extremities and covers; bookplates of Charles P. Groves and I. & F.W. Hosken.
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A naturalist in mid-Africa. Being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika.
First edition. ‘The idea of going to Africa again suddenly occurred to me after a long conversation on African Floras. I came to the conclusion that if I entered the continent by the Zambesi and went up via Tanganyika to Ruwenzori and thence by Uganda to Mombasa, I should be able to solve the question of botanical areas which on this side of Africa had often puzzled me. I sent in my application to the Royal Society, and to my great surprise it was granted. The accompanying proviso, that I should start from Mombasa, put me in a great difficulty, since it involved engaging Suahilis for the whole journey, and thereby at least doubling my expenses; but as the Committee were very kind in giving me the money (a grant of £700), without any limit of time, I determined to go’ (p. 1). Most of the illustrations are after photographs taken by the author.
Alpine Club Library Catalogue, p. 102; Hosken p. 66; Wood, An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology, p. 332.