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.