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Lot 339
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
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STANLEY, Henry Morton, Sir (1841-1904). Through the Dark Continent, or The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa, and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. London: Sampson Low, Marston, et al, 1878.
2 volumes, 8vo (207 x 129 mm). 2 lithographed frontispiece portraits, 10 lithographed maps (4 folding) (some tears to folding maps, one with small loss mostly to margin); 32 wood-engraved plates, numerous illustrations. Contemporary half green calf gilt (joints starting, spines browned). Provenance: Katherine M. Shrift (signatures).
FIRST EDITION. Stanley embarked between 1874-1877 to continue Livingstone's researches on the Congo and Nile River systems, and to examine the findings of Speke, Burton, and Baker. He crossed the continent from east to west along the course of the Congo River, establishing its navigability. Mendelssohn IV:379. [With:] STANLEY, Henry Morton, Sir. The Autobiography. Boston and New York: Riverside Press, 1909. Original red cloth gilt.