Lot 102
  • 102

STANLEY, HENRY MORTON

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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
  • ink,paper
2 volumes, 4to (288 x 225 mm) 4 coloured maps (3 folding, with the 2 largest on linen as issued), photogravure frontispieces, 6 etchings by M.G. Montbard, and 36 plates, one leaf of autograph facsimile, text illustrations. Original half morocco and vellum, gilt; top edges gilt, others uncut. Some spotting to vellum as well as edges of text.

Catalogue Note

limited edition de luxe, no 116 of 250 copies signed by the author. Stanley's expedition to rescue the Ottoman-German naturalist and one-time governor of Equatoria Emin Pasha set out in January 1887. Following a particularly treacherous and difficult route which included a five month journey through the Ituri rain forest and having lost two-thirds of the party, Stanley eventually convinced Emin Pasha to leave Equatoria in 1889.

The six etchings by M.G. Montbard were specially prepared for this edition-de-luxe, and each is signed in pencil by the artist.

Stanley's more celebrated African quest was in search of the explorer and missionary David Livingstone (see lot 93).