[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904) In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890.
2 volumes, 8vo. Steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, numerous plates and wood-engravings in text, 3 large folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. (Title-pages toned from tissue guards.) Original gilt-letter green pictorial cloth gilt with inset silhouette of Africa, brown coated endpapers (light edge wear at extremities, front hinge starting after title in vol.2). Provenance: William Kilpatrick (early ownership signature on pastedown).
FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION, of Stanley’s account of one of his most famous expeditions to rescue Emin Pasha.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
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