Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £240 |
STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. 2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 138mm). 4 maps, 2 of which folding, half tone plates and illustrations (short tear to fone folding map without loss, some staining). Original russet pictorial cloth gilt (some light dampstaining). FIRST EDITION. Hosken p.189; Howgego Encyclopaedia of Exploration 1850-1940 IV, S60. With 5 other books of related interest, namely the same author's How I Found Livingstone (London, 1872), David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (London, 1857), John Hanning Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Edinburgh and London, 1863), W. H. G. Kingston's In the Wilds of Africa (London, 1871) and A. Henry Savage Landor's Tibet and Nepal (London, 1905), all FIRST EDITIONS in original cloth (variously worn and stained). (7)