Stanley Henry, Signed (53 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Signed by author on half title page. Writing inside.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed Card by Albert Henry Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, TD, PC 1874 - 1948, born Albert Henry Knattriess, was a British-American businessman who was managing director, then chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) from 1910 to 1933 and chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) from 1933 to 1947. Size 115x90mm Condition is very good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16120. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xii, 130 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, 1982. Fine In Near Fine Dj With A Little Rubbing To Background Red Color. Personally Inscribed By The Author Ad Dated In January 1983. Inscribed by Author(s).

Henry Holt: NY (1957). Illus, 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, 334 w/index, vg in edge- chipped dw. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Complete Set of Signed Papers,10 Downing Street Letters and Bookplates of British Prime Ministers from the 20th Century including Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Lord Salisbury) , Arthur James Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, James Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain, Clement Attlee, Sir Winston Churchill (Printed 1945 Letter) , Sir Anthony Eden (Avon), Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Sir Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Sir John Major and Tony Blair. Various sizes and dates. The Churchill letter is an original printed House of Commons letter sent out by Churchill in 1945. Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 19350/19352/19353/19444/19311/19312/19250/19251/. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890, "Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe", no. 220 of 250 copies signed by Stanley; three-quarter dark brown morocco with vellum boards, illustrated with engraved frontispieces, 38 mounted plates on India paper, six additional full-page etchings (each signed by the artist), three color folding maps (two backed in cloth), a folding table of comparative vocabularies, and numerous mounted, in-text India-prints. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red boards and spines lettered and decorated in gilt and black; significant lean to both spines; slightest bubbling to rear (plane) panel of Vol 1 with a slight 2 cm x 3 mm scuff. Only mild foxing to two fore edges. Interrnally VOL 1: end papers foxed and mild intermittent foxing throughout (more severe in index section0; book plate on reverse of ffep; photo frontis with tissue guard; eight pages of 'Contents' uncut. 13 cm horizontal tear across one panel of folding map. Pp [iii], (iv-xv), map, 529, [1]. Vol 2l: less foxed; similar book plate on reverse of ffep; portrait frontis, with guard, signed and dated by author; similar tear to folding map but this one professionally repaired. Pp frontis, [iii], (iv-xv0, map, 472, [2 ads]. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Third Party Hand Written Signed Letter from Orientalist Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley. Dated 1860. A letter of acknowledgment. Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley 1827-1903, was a British historian who translated The first voyage round the world by Magellan and other works from the Age of Discovery. A convert to Islam, in 1869 Lord Stanley became the first Muslim member of the House of Lords. Size is 115mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Age toning/foxing. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17708. Signed by Author(s).

Erste Ausgabe. 17 x 24,5 cm. o. J. Erste Auflage, 216 S. Farbig illustrierte OLwd, Farbschnitt. 6 Illusrationen von Martin Ränicke. Bestoßen und mit Lagerungsspuren, stärker gebräunt. Signatur des Verfassers.

Original wrappers. Ink name stamp and signature of I. L. Chaikoff, with his ink notes, on front wrapper. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 749. Inscribed: "With the authors' compliments.".

Erste Ausgabe. 17 x 24,5 cm. Erste Auflage, VII, 308 S. Silberngeprägte illustrierte OLwd, Farbkopfschnitt. Sprache: Englisch, Zahlreiche Illustrationen, Karte in Lasche. Leicht bestoßen, leichte Lagerungsspuren, minimal berieben, innen leicht fingerfleckig, insgesamt noch gut. Widmung Dominiks auf dem Vorsatz Berlin, Oktober 1907. Hinweis: Versandkosten müssen bei Auslandsversand evtl. angehoben werden. Signatur des Verfassers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. illustrated with black and white photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tight binding, solid green boards with bright gilt lettering and exotic illustration to front, bright gilt lettering to spine strip with gently ruffled ends, signed bookplate from author "Presented to the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution." affixed to front paste down, presentation note from author to the librarian tipped in between early blank pages, frontispiece is a fold-out map of The East Africa Protectorate and Uganda in near fine condition, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, no library markings, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED, WARMLY INSCRIBED TO FELLOW AUTHOR ERLE STANLEY GARDNER AND DATED BY HENRY JOSEPH JACKSON ON FEP. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. xx, 346 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp. [116]., various pagination. Illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth with decorative border blocked in black lettered gilt on upper cover. Presentation copy written in pencil [to Stanley]: 'Kind Regards of the author Solon Doggett Quincy Mass.' Handwritten letter from Sarah H. Doggett to Henry Morton Stanley at the Hotel Brunswick written on headed notepaper from The Brunswick, Barnes & Dunklee, Boston P. O. Address, "Back Bay, Boston", undated and consisting of about 150 words in which she says she realises meeting Stanley would be impossible due to his busy schedule. She presents the book on behalf of her husband, having travelled to Boston specifically for the purpose. Her husband, who saw Stanley's first book and then wrote 'Tanganika', has become consumptive and asks to be excused for taking the liberty of dedicating the poem to Stanley. 'Will you please accept it and read the poem?' As an afterthought she adds that Doggett is the son and grandson of ministers. Solon Doggett (1845-1933) artist and poet. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) the famous explorer of Central Africa who searched for Dr.Livingstone. Very good indeed. Very good indeed. Signedes.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Edward Henry STANLEY, homme d'Etat Britannique. Lettre autographe signee, adressee a Jacques-Henri WUSTENBERG, jointe de son enveloppe, 19 Novembre 1865. Lettre d'Edward Henry STANLEY, homme d'Etat Britannique, celle ci est adressee a Jacques-Henri WUSTENBERG apres le deces de son pere. "the deep regret with wich I learn from your letter of the death of your respected and venerable father". Il espere que celui ci a toujours pour projet de venir visiter l'Angleterre malgre cette perte. Etat: Voir photos pour plus de details. Dimensions : Lettre : 18,1 x 11,5 cm . 3 pages. Signed by author or artist.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good+. Quarto. No. 51 of 100 proof copies on heavy Dutch hand-made paper. SIGNED BY DEDICATEE, HENRY M. STANLEY, TRANSLATOR, M. FRENCH SHELDON, INTRODUCTORY AUTHOR, EDWARD KING AND THE PUBLISHER SAXON & CO. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco paneled in gilt, raised bands with compartments stamped in gilt, lavish inner gilt dentelles over marbled paper, top edge gilt. A very handsome copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 4th Edition. The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B Edited by His Wife, Dorothy Stanley. With Sixteen Illustrations, Map and One Facsimile Letter. Fourth Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., n.d., c. 1915. INSCRIBED BY DOROTHY STANLEY. 551 p + 1 publisher s adverts. Complete plates + 1 map in rear. Dark red cloth binding measures 9 x 6 , 8vo. In fair condition. Boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed; gilt lettering dulled & soiled, but legible. Inscription, in ink, found on front end-page: The Right Honorable Thomas Burt Esq. M.P. P.C./ from his/ Affectionate friend/ Dorothy Stanley - 1915 . Off-setting on front end-page. Frontispiece exhibits two small tears near center of leaf. Pages 17-48 attached via one piece of cording only & scuffed at fore-edges. Toning in margins with some finger-soiling on fore-edges. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 1841 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of the Belgians that enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1897, and served in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist member for Lambeth North from 1895 to 1900. Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley (1855 1926) was an English painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism. In 1890, she married Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography, reportedly removing any references to other women in Stanley's life. After Sir Henry Morton Stanley's death, his widow remarried, in 1907, to Henry Jones Curtis (died 19 February 1944), a pathologist, surgeon and writer. Thomas Burt PC (1837 1922) was a British trade unionist and one of the first working-class Members of Parliament. Fourth Edition, Inscribed by Dorothy Stanley. RAREB1915DPQM 06/25 - HK2524. Inscribed by Author(s).

2 vols. Frontispiece portrait in each volume, folding maps; plates and numerous text illustrations. Demy Quarto, publisher's three quarter morocco and vellum, t.e.g. First American edition deluxe; No. 226 of 250 copies signed by Henry M. Stanley. Old ink signatures in each volume; marginal areas of most of the inserted etched plates stained/foxed; contents otherwise clean. The bindings are tight and sound; covers slightly bowed; and the vellum is discolored and starting to shrink at some of the areas where it joins the leather. Additional postage applicable for these large, heavy volumes.

First edition; 2 volumes, 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); signed letter loosely inserted to vol. I, 2 frontispiece portraits, 10 maps including 2 large folding maps in pockets at rear, 33 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text, discreet W.H. Smith blindstamps to endpaper of vol 1; publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth with Africa shown in relief with route across in gilt, spines lettered in gilt, a little rubbed, hinges of vol. 1 cracked but firm, a very good set; xiv, [1], 522; ix, 566 pp. With signed letter from Stanley arranging a meeting with Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 'at 6 pm Saturday next week'. Dated 3 January 1887, this letter was written in the three weeks that Stanley was back in London from the Congo hastily preparing the Emin-Pasha expedition. The meeting would never take place: Northcote died on the 12th of January, the Wednesday before the Saturday suggested, meaning Stanley presumably had to meet with his successor the Marquess of Salisbury instead. The story of the Anglo-American expedition to Central Africa, commanded by Stanley and undertaken between 1874 and 1877. The discovery of the course of the Congo, though the greatest, was but one of the many geographical problems solved during this memorable expedition. Vast in size, "the procession that departed from Bagamoyo (Tanzania) on 17 November 1874 stretched for more than half a mile and included dozens of men carrying sections of the Lady Alice, with which Stanley intended to explore Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and Livingstone's Lualaba River. During the next two and a half years, the expedition would struggle in temperatures reaching as high as 138 degrees; the powerful Emperor Mtesa of Uganda and the Wanyoro chief Mirambo would consume a great deal of Stanley's time and test his diplomatic skills; he would have to negotiate with a notorious Arab ivory and slave trader named Tippu-Tib for safe passage of his men through the great rain forest; and he and his men would fight more than thirty skirmishes and battles on land and water against hostile tribes. The geographic prizes Stanley achieved on this expedition were unparalleled. He spent almost two months circumnavigating Lake Victoria, confirming that the only outlet was at Ripon Falls and hence establishing for good, he thought, the source of the Nile. He scouted Lake Albert, then moved south and west to Lake Tanganyika, which he also circumnavigated, proving it had no connection with Lake Albert. Stanley then solved the remaining geographical puzzle, determining that the Lualaba was not part of the Niger or Nile rivers but ultimately flowed into the Congo. He reached the Atlantic Ocean on 9 August 1877, after a journey of more than seven thousand miles, in utter exhaustion." (Delaney). Mendelssohn II, p.380.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. One of 250 copies signed by Stanley, Sir William Mackinnon, and Sir F. de Winton. "With Six Etchings and One Hundred And Fifty Woodcut Illustrations And Maps." Bound in publisher's original half black morocco with vellum boards, spines and covers stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Text blocks are fine except for previous owner's bookplate on front free endpapers. Large, color, fold-out maps in both volumes are in fine condition. Wear to three corners through leather. 9 x 11 1/2 inches. 1,001 combined pages plus maps and plates. A beautiful pair of books. Images available upon request. Signed.

First edition; the copy belonging to Paul Du Chaillu, signed by him, by Stanley and his officers, and other dignitaries in attendance; 12 printed leaves, on green or blue paper, mounted on thick white card. With photographic portraits of Stanley, W.G. Stairs, Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert Henry Nelson, and A.J. Mounteney-Jephson by Henry van de Weyde, London, mounted on 5 leaves, with two further photographic prints showing the Stanley Testimonial Shield and medallions designed by Henry Wellcome, both mounted on one page. Original calf, upper cover embossed with the shield of the United States emblazoned with the name 'Stanley,' and with the American eagle above, white-and-gold patterned endpapers, gilt edges, neatly rebacked. Paul du Chaillu's copy of the special autograph edition of Stanley's American testimonial banquet. An exceptionally interesting copy of this scarce desideratum, signed twice by Du Chaillu, as well as by Stanley and all his officers, as well as Vernon Lovatt Cameron, J.A. Grant, M. Grant Duff and other dignitaries. W. G. Stairs, Stanley's Lieutenant, has written a eulogium on the final leaf in pencil to Paul Du Chaillu, under the heading of 'Africa for Ever.' Following the printed title, the text consists of a list of the Committee and honorary Stewards, including Henry Wellcome as Honorary Secretary, eulogies on Stanley and the four other expedition members, a description of the Stanley Memorial shield, the menu, toast list and programme of music, and finally a list of those 'present at the banquet.' This is one of very few copies with actual autographs. In his letter to Denzil Stanley, Moore states: 'In 1890 a complimentary Dinner was given in London to Sir Henry Morton Stanley after his return from the Emin Pasha Relief Expediiton. Sir Henry Wellcome was honorary Secretary of the Committee which organised the Dinner. 'We have a few leather-bound Souvenirs of the Dinner which are specially interesting because amongst other things they contain photographic prints of Sir Henry Stanley and of the principal members of the expedition, each with autographed signatures.'.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). G. Montbard (illustrator). Limited. Mounted photogravure portrait frontispieces of Stanley on India paper; 6 etchings printed in sepia, signed in pencil by G. Montbard; 150 woodcut illustrations, protected with tissue; 3 color folding maps, 2 of which are large linen-backed area maps; 103 in-text illustrations. 2 volumes. [2], xvi, 529; [2], xvi, 472 pages. Short thick 4tos, rebound in older 3/4 dark brown calf over plain drab boards; simple gilt-lettered spines with raised bands; uncut edges top edges gilt. New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Limited deluxe large-paper edition -- number 116 of 250 copies, signed by Stanley. Leather is rubbed and with some flaking at joints, still a very good(+) sturdy copy, very clean but for ownership bookplates in each volume. Account of Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha. The expedition "accomplished great things; it had made notable additions to African geography and ethnology. Stanley called for the highest qualities of leadership" (--DNB). This immensely popular account was published simultaneously in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.

Hardcover. Limited Edition, Author's Special Copy. Quarto, 2 volumes; VG-; bound in publisher's three quarter brown morocco and gilt-stamped vellum, paneled spine with gilt lettering; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; both volumes with some shelfwear and rubbing, cracking to hinges, rubbing and bumping to corners; volume two with vellum curling and peeling up along spine edge, small closed tear to front board vellum, two spots of damage holes to center of front board, large scratch to morocco on front board; volume one with two clusters of pinprick holes to the front board; Signed by Stanley on leaf at front noting this the "Author's Special Copy," where the limitation page usually is placed. with photogravure frontispieces on mounted India paper, three folding maps, two backed with linen and of a larger size, 6 original etched plates, each signed in pencil by artist G. Montbard, and a multitude of wood engravings on tissue paper; EH Consignment; shelved case 9. 'Author's Special Copy' which matches the limited edition of 250 copies of the Quarto Edition de Luxe. One of a small number of copies for presentation; 1363928. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed.

To Sir Walter: "I hope you will kindly excuse me from coming tonight as I see no immediate end to my work - unless I put in a few hours extra. I hope to be free by about noon tomorrow .". The Anglo-Irish diplomat and colonial administrator Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson (1849-1913) served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal and Zululand (1893 to 1901) and as Governor of the Cape Colony (1901 ff.).Reverse with traces of mounting. Signed autograph letter from the African explorer Henry Morton Stanley to the governor of Natal and Zululand Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, written on paper with an embossed address. Pages: 1, [1 blank] pp.

8vo. (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). xvii, 551, [1]pp. Frontispiece portrait plus 15 photogravure plates, 1 folding map, and 2 folding facsimile letters. Publisher's green crushed morocco gilt, upper cover with gilt device of Africa and lettered Bula-Matari, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Green cloth box, with morocco label titled in gilt. Deluxe issue. Number 9 of 250 copies signed by Dorothy Stanley in a fine publisher's morocco binding. Henry Morton Stanley was born in 1841 in Wales illegitimately as John Rowlands, abandoned as an infant by his mother, passed around to various relatives and eventually sent to the St. Asaph Union Workhouse for the Poor after his family members threw him out. As a child, Rowlands suffered years of abuse by his family and in the workhouse. In 1859, at the age of eighteen, he emigrated to America and began the process of reinventing himself, pretending to be an American and taking the name of Henry Hope Stanley, a successful cotton merchant he claimed he had met in New Orleans who informally adopted him and became a father figure to the young Stanley. In his autobiography, Stanley looks back on this time as being heavily affected by the abuse he endured and the stigma of illegitimacy. During the Civil War, Stanley became one of the few people to serve in the Confederate Army, Union Army, and the U.S. Navy, and after the war, he became a newspaper correspondent for the St. Louis "Missouri Democrat" covering General Hancock's army in the Indian campaigns. Stanley elaborates on his adventures during the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars in the first half of the book. In 1868, Stanley began covering the war in Abyssinia for the "New York Herald," which sent him to Africa to find David Livingstone a year later, a feat that garnered him his first taste of international renown. Stanley then spent the following twenty years exploring and charting the African interior, authoring several best-selling books, and working as a colonial administrator for the Congo Free State of Belgian King Leopold II. In this latter endeavor, Stanley helped to establish one of the most controversial and violent colonial projects in the history of European imperialism. During this time, he worked on his autobiography, "as he indicates, out of a desire to make his nature and character comprehensible to the world which knew him in the day of his fame" (DAB). However, Stanley died in 1904 before he could finish it, and his wife, Dorothy, whom he married in 1890, stepped in to edit and prepare it for publication, completing the work from Stanley's notes and drafts. It was then published in London and Boston in 1909. In that same year, however, his wife found additional materials in their country house and a new deluxe limited edition of the "Autobiography" was issued in 250 copies. The new edition included a facsimile letter Dorothy found which had been sent by the young Stanley in 1858 when he was still known as John Rowlands, presented as proof that he was born and raised in North Wales. Copies of this deluxe limited edition were mostly given out to Stanley's close friends. Half the work is dedicated to the early years of Stanley's life in Wales and America, revealing the troubled origin story of the figure who would become the most accomplished and celebrated 19th-century African explorer. It also contains a detailed folding map of central Africa, with Stanley's routes outlined in color. DAB XVII, pp.509-13. Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost ; Howgego IV, 560.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. 12 pages, including pages with mounted photographs. Bound in full leather stamped "Stanley" with shield and eagle decoration on the front cover, with wear to the extremities. The spine has been expertly rebacked in full leather to match the original. The hinge of the page containing the Stanley photograph has been repaired almost invisibly, not affecting the photograph or the text. There is minor to moderate foxing scattered throughout. With the exception of the list of persons present, which is affixed to the inside front cover, each page is mounted on thick card stock. There are five photographic portraits of the officers of the Advance Command of the Expedition, each of which is signed by the officer in the top margin above the photograph. The book is additionally signed on the front and rear endpaper by 23 attendees of the banquet event. The text includes the menu of nine courses served on May 30th, 1890 including "Babas a la Stanley" for entrements. It was a lavish event, held in the Portman Rooms, with the Band of the Grenadier Guards played 10 songs. At this event, Stanley was presented with a massive testimonial shield and medallions wrought in fine silver by Elkington & Co. The shield was designed by Henry Solomon Wellcome, who apparently organized this banquet event. Wellcome's new tabloid medicines in the form of "nine beautiful chests replete with every medicament necessary to combat the endemic diseases peculiar to Africa" accompanied the expedition, and there were several pharmaceutical colleagues in attendance at the event. Signed by 1) Max O'Rell pen name of M. Paul Blouet (1848-1903) French author 2) Howard Bronson (1842-1908) American Dramatist 3) Moncure D. Conway (1832-1907) Abolitionist Minister 4) William Holman Hunt(1827-1910) English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 5) J. McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) American artist 6) Frederick Kill Harford (1832-1906) English clergyman, musician, poet and pioneering music therapist 7) Gen. P.D. Roddey (1826-1897) Alabama Confederate 8) Dr. G. W. Holman American patent medicine 9) A.R. Shaw 10) Hon. J.C. New Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury 11) Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) pharmaceutical entrepreneur 12) Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff (1829-1906) Scottish politician 13) W. Everett? 14) Charles Williams 15) Maj. Henry Van Der Weyde (1838-1924) Dutch born English painter and photographer 16) Brent Good (1837-1915) Carter Medicine Co.; shocked in London Zeppelin Raid 17) J.N. Aronson electrical patentee 18) Eli Lemon Sheldon (1846-1892) close Stanley family friend whose wife Mary French Sheldon traveled to Mombasa and Kilimanjaro 19) Stanley on portrait 20) Stairs on portrait 21) Parke on portrait 22) Nelson on portrait 23) Mounteney-Jephson on portrait 24) G.G. Macpherson 25) M.P. McCoy London Agent Cottrell Presses 26) D. Dalziel of Dalziel's Cable News Agency 27) Townsend Percy 28) Edward H. Allen (1830-1895) G.A.R. The book measures just over 10 inches in height. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Autograph.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine & gilt vignette on front board; map + woodcut illustrations (all present). An interesting association copy, being inscribed by Stanley on frontis verso to Mounteney Jephson who features regularly in the book as an expedition member. Stanley writes: "To my dear Mounteney Jephson the last survivor of the gallant band of officers who made the expedition a success" Signed Henry H Stanley. A postscript dated June 22nd 1897 Jubilee Day reads 'This volume is one of the first five issued of this edition'. Bookplate on front pastedown, with associated browning on front free end paper; damage to back hinge; tissue guard to frontis lightly foxed. Bottom corner of front board a little bruised. Red cloth slightly discoloured on spine, with pale marks on boards (1 on front board, several on back board). Folding map at rear undamaged. Used - Good. SIGNED association copy Good hardback in red cloth. Inscribed by Author(s).

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Deluxe edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Deluxe Limited Edition (Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe), this being #92 of 250 numbered copies. 2 volume set, complete. A Very Good set. 4to., [Vol.1] 529; [Vol.2] 472 pp., illustrated with frontispieces, 44 plates (6 of them etchings signed by the artist), text drawings, and 5 maps (1 of which is a large, folding map). Bound in half brown morocco and vellum, with title, flag design and author's signature in gilt on the front boards. Top edge gilt. SIGNED by Stanley on the limitation page. Some edge wear on the leather. The vellum boards are soiled. Matching book plates of F. W. Sykes, Esq. Dust soiling to the text block's fore edge. Some light, monor foxing to the frontispieces and some maps. Very Good. *** Expedited and international shipping only, will require additional postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Deluxe Limited Edition. Two volumes. Demy quarto edition de luxe. Copy #53 of 250 signed by Henry Stanley. A near fine set with lightly rubbed morocco and vellum, slight lifting to Vol. I's front vellum; internally clean and bright. The finest edition of a classic of exploration literature, luxuriously bound in vellum and dark rich morocco, containing 44 plates (six of them etchings signed by the artist), four maps, one table, and over a hundred illustrations.

2 volumes. Edition de Luxe. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by Stanley on the reverse of the half-title. With 6 etchings and 150 woodcut illustrations and 3 folding maps. Each of the etchings are signed in pencil by the artist. Large 4to, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and with vellum covered sides, gilt lettered on the spines, gilt lettered and with gilt flag vignette on the upper covers, t.e.g. and all edges untrimmed. xv, 529; xi, 472 pp. Index in each volume. A lovely example of this rare set, the bindings unusually fresh with the morocco and vellum in an especially good state of preservation, extremely fresh and clean internally. Only a light bit of aging to the vellum, quite unusual in this condition. VERY SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE WRITINGS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPLORERS OF THE DARK CONTINENT. "By 1885 Stanley had become deeply interested in the schemes of Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Mackinnon, chairman of the British India Steam Navigation Company, for establishing a British protectorate in East Equatorial Africa, and it was believed that this object could be furthered at the same time that relief was afforded to Emin Pasha, governor of the the Equatorial Province of Egypt, who had been isolated by the Mahdist rising of 1881-1885.Instead of choosing the direct route Stanley decided to go by way of the Congo, as thereby he would be able to render services to the infant Congo State, then encountering great difficulties with the Zanzibar Arabs established on the Upper Congo" (EB). Stanley and Tippoo Tib, the chief of the Congo Arabs, entered into an agreement for the latter to assume governorship of the Stanley Falls station and supply carriers for the Emin relief expedition, and then travelled up the Congo to Bangala together. They parted ways at Stanley Falls and Stanley started his trip toward Albert Nyanza, leaving a rear-guard at Yambuya on the lower Aruwimi under the command of Major E.M. Barttelot. Stanley's journey to Albert Nyanza became a hazardous 160-day march through "nothing but miles and miles, endless miles of forest" that claimed the lives of over half of Stanley's men from starvation, disease, and hostility of the natives. Finally upon the arrival at Albert Nyanza, Stanley achieved communication with Emin but was troubled by the non-arrival of his rear-guard. He retraced his steps back to Yambuya to find that Tippoo Tib had broken faith, Barttelot had been murdered, and the camp was in disarray and only one European was left. Stanley again set out for Albert Nyanza, where Stanley, Emin Pasha, and the survivors of the rear-guard began the return journey to Zanzibar by way of Uganda, a trip during which he discovered the Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori), traced the course of the Semliki River, discovered Albert Edward Nyanza and the great southwestern gulf of Victorian Nyanza. Of Stanley's original 646 men, only 246 survived. This account of his adventures was wildly popular and published in six languages. This particular edition is extremely scarce in such excellent condition.