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Stanley, Henry Morton
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800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
- Stanley, Henry Morton
- 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. London: Sampson Low, Marston [&c.], 1878
- Paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 135mm.), (vol.1) xiv, [ii], 522pp.; (vol.2) x, 566pp., 32pp. adverts dated April 1878, 10 maps [2 folding in the rear cover pockets], 34 plates, illustrations, original pictorial fine pebble-grained brown cloth, slipcase, some offsetting to title page
Literature
Hilmy, II, p.258; Mendelssohn (1979) IV, p.379
Catalogue Note
"STANLEY'S NAVIGATION OF THE CONGO WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST JOURNEYS OF ALL TIME" (Jeal, Life of Stanley, p.202).