Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £30 |
STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872. Large 8vo (220 x 140mm). Half title, mounted photographed frontispiece portrait, 5 maps, 4 of which folding and printed in colours, one plan in the text, 28 wood-engraved plates, 8-pages of publisher's advertisements dated October 1872 at the end (portrait spotted, one folding map torn and repaired with adhesive tape, some spotting and staining). Original pictorial cloth gilt (shaken, extremities rubbed, faded). FIRST EDITION. Czech p.152: "One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration"; Mendelssohn IV, 379. With David & Charles Livingstone's Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries (London, 1865, large 8vo, lacking the folding map at the end, original pictorial cloth gilt, re-cased in modern cloth, FIRST EDITION). (2)