Books and Manuscripts

Stanley, Henry M.
In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. In two volumes. First American edition, limited Demy Quarto de Luxe issue, #224/250 copies signed by Stanley. Thick 4to. Half-title in each volume; title-pages printed in black and in red. Illustrated with two engraved frontispiece portraits, four maps (3 folding with two on linen, as issued), six etchings by M.G. Montbard signed in pencil, 40 plates, numerous in-text illustrations, and one leaf of autograph facsimile; each plate with tissue guard. Publisher's three-quarter brown morocco over vellum-covered boards, beveled edges, stamped in gilt, joints, spine, and extremities rubbed and lightly worn, light wear to vellum; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; prelims in first volume starting; scattered light soiling to text; offsetting from laid in paper on pp. xiv-xv in second volume.

First American and limited deluxe edition of Henry Morton Stanley's harrowing expedition through Africa, intended as a rescue mission to save Emin Pasha, governor of Equatoria in the Southern Sudan.