Henry Morton Stanley - In Darkest Africa - 1890
Nr. 90299067
FIRST EDITION - 1890. In two volumes, cloth-bound, hardcover, thick octavo (23cm x 14cm), pp. xv, 529; xi, 472, [2] advertisements. English text with maps and 150 illustrations throughout. Bound in publisher's ORIGINAL decorative cloth gilt, illustrated endpapers, 38 full-page plates, 3 folding maps (2 in colour), 1 sketch profile, numerous in the text illustrations, tables and charts, printed footnotes, rear appendices and indexes.
Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Covers well-preserved with some fraying to the top and bottom of spine. Interiors with some light scattered foxing. No holes or tears in the pages. Volume 1: The large map has 1 small tear on the right bottom and side. Page 273 is loose. Volume 2: The large map has 3 small tears, 2 on the bottom and 1 on the right side (see pictures). A handsome set for its age.
This is a narrative of Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the embattled German governor of Equatoria (southern Sudan), via an unexplored and perilous route up the Congo. The expedition took two years, traversed 3000 miles (crossing the continent from west to east), and resulted in the death of more than 300 men from starvation, disease, or encounters with the natives. By the time they reached Emin Pasha, it was Stanley and his men who required rescue, rather than the other way around. After a period of recuperation, Stanley and Emin set out for Zanzibar by way of Uganda-in the process tracing the course of the Semliki River and establishing it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. Despite controversy surrounding the motives and conduct of the expedition, his account became a bestseller, and remains one of the great classics of African exploration.
FIRST EDITION - 1890. In two volumes, cloth-bound, hardcover, thick octavo (23cm x 14cm), pp. xv, 529; xi, 472, [2] advertisements. English text with maps and 150 illustrations throughout. Bound in publisher's ORIGINAL decorative cloth gilt, illustrated endpapers, 38 full-page plates, 3 folding maps (2 in colour), 1 sketch profile, numerous in the text illustrations, tables and charts, printed footnotes, rear appendices and indexes.
Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Covers well-preserved with some fraying to the top and bottom of spine. Interiors with some light scattered foxing. No holes or tears in the pages. Volume 1: The large map has 1 small tear on the right bottom and side. Page 273 is loose. Volume 2: The large map has 3 small tears, 2 on the bottom and 1 on the right side (see pictures). A handsome set for its age.
This is a narrative of Stanley's expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the embattled German governor of Equatoria (southern Sudan), via an unexplored and perilous route up the Congo. The expedition took two years, traversed 3000 miles (crossing the continent from west to east), and resulted in the death of more than 300 men from starvation, disease, or encounters with the natives. By the time they reached Emin Pasha, it was Stanley and his men who required rescue, rather than the other way around. After a period of recuperation, Stanley and Emin set out for Zanzibar by way of Uganda-in the process tracing the course of the Semliki River and establishing it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. Despite controversy surrounding the motives and conduct of the expedition, his account became a bestseller, and remains one of the great classics of African exploration.