Lot 217
  • 217

Stanley, Henry Morton.

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • In Darkest Africa. Or the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890
limited edition, number 33 of 250 copies signed by the author, 2 volumes, 4to (290 x 225mm.), plates and illustrations, folding map, original half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, joints rubbed

Catalogue Note

the deluxe edition. The book is Stanley’s narrative of his expedition to the Egyptian Equatorial province begun in 1887, where the Madhist revolt in the Sudan had isolated the governor there.