- Mungo Park (1771–1806) — Senegal, Mali (1795–1797), Senegal, Mali, Niger,
Nigeria (1805–1806) - Henry Salt (1780–1827) — coastline, Mozambique to Somalia (1809)
- Gaspard Théodore Mollien, comte de mollien (1796–1872) — Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau (1818–1819)
- Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826) — Sierra Leone (1822)
- René Caillié (1799–1838) — Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Algeria, Morocco
- Hugh Clapperton (1788–1827) (1824–1828)
and Richard Lander (1804–1834) — Nigeria (1825–1827) - Richard Lander (1804–1834) and John Lander (1807–1839) — Nigeria (1830)
- David Livingstone (1813–1873) — Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia (1866–1873)
- Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925) — Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (1868–1871)
- Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) — Tanzania (1871–1872), Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (1874–1877), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania (1887–1889)
- Keith Johnston (1844–1879) and Joseph Thomson (1858–1895) — Tanzania (1878–1880)
- Joseph Thomson (1858–1895) — Kenya (1883–1884)
Front cover and spine of Volume 1 of Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent; or, The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa, and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean (New York, 1878). Gift of Mrs. Barton Currie. [Rare Books Division]