Henry M Stanely (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first US trade edition of Henry Stanley's account of his exploration of Africa and the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, bound in pictorial cloth and illustrated throughout. The first US trade edition of Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley's account of his nineteent…h century explorations of Africa and the Congo. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.The expedition started in 1886 and ended in 1889, and was the last major European expedition in the deepest parts of Africa in the nineteenth century. It became infamous due to the number of deaths of the crew and the violence used, which made it the last expedition of its kind: the following expeditions would be government-led and in pursuit of political, military, or scientific goals.Collated, illustrated a portrait frontispiece to each volume, and with one-hundred and fifty full page and vignette illustrations. With two folding maps to the rear of volume II, lacking one folding maps to the rear of volume I.An impressively detailed study of this important expedition. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front joint of volume I strained, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with only the odd light spot or handling mark. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
