Henry Stanely (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First American edition. 8vo. [5], vi-xvii, [4], 4-551, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering and a gold decoration on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a map in the rear and with sixteen photogravure plates. Edited by his wife Dorothy Stanley. With the bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge, the statesman and politician. The bookplate made by Tiffany & Co. Stanley's story in his own words, from childhood to his travels in Equatorial Africa. Stanley led a mercenary sort of life: he was born out of wedlock as John Rowlands, and was sent to a workhouse to be educated. He escaped and then fled to the docks and worked for a merchant whose name he assumed as his own. He immigrated to the U.S. and served in the Civil War, including at the Battle of Shiloh, but then deserted the U.S. Navy in 1864, shortly after joining. He worked mostly as a journalist until he was asked to assist in finding and rescuing David Livingstone. He would be commissioned by Leopold to chart and found the Congo State, which would become one of the most brutal examples of imperialism the world would see. Stanley concluded his travels by rescuing Emin Pasha, traversing Equatorial Africa to do it, and would tour Canada and the United States after the fact. A pleasing association copy of the explorer's story. A small separation between the backstrip and the textblock and a subtle dampspot to the first few leaves, the edge of the map is rather brittle.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). 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 nineteenth 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. book.