STANLEY, Henry Morton, Sir (1841-1904). How I Found Livingstone. London, 1872. FIRST EDITION.
8vo (220 x 139 mm). 8pp. publisher's advertisements. Photographic frontispiece portrait mounted, 5 maps (4 folding) (one map reinforced on verso at gutter), 28 engraved plates. (Frontispiece and preliminaries dampstained at gutter.) Publisher's pictorial brown cloth blocked in gilt and black (recased with new endpapers).FIRST EDITION, "ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BOOKS IN THE BROAD SPECTRUM OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION" (Czech). In 1869, Stanley set out to find Livingstone at the urging of James Gordon Bennett, Jr., publisher of the New York Herald, who had sponsored his first trip to Africa in 1867. He located the Scottish explorer at Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in November 1871. Czech p.152; Mendelssohn IV:379.
