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SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY (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. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 2 volumes, 8° (223 x 145mm.). 2pp. publisher's advertisements at back of vol.II., wood-engraved portrait frontispieces, 32 plates and numerous illustrations, 10 maps printed in two or more colours, 3 folding, 2 in pockets at the end of each vol. [one with route marked by hand], one double-page. (Repaired tears to large folding maps in pockets, some overall light browning, stitching slightly loose.) Original green pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt (extremities lightly scuffed). Provenance: John W. Thomson (Pittsfield, Mass., bookplates). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Thomas Heazle Parke My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha relief expedition. London: William Clowes & Sons, Ltd. for Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1891. 8° (220 x 140mm.). 32pp. publisher's advertisements at back. Wood-engraved title vignette, portrait frontispiece and 17 plates, 1 folding coloured map in pocket at rear. (Small tear to fold of map.) Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and black (spine lightly soiled, extremities bumped). FIRST EDITION.
And three other works in five volumes all FIRST EDITIONS: H. M. Stanley's In Darkest Africa (London, 1890, 2 vols.), H. M. Stanley's My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia (London, 1895, 2 vols.) and David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (London, 1857), all FIRST EDITIONS in original cloth. (8)
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. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. 2 volumes, 8° (223 x 145mm.). 2pp. publisher's advertisements at back of vol.II., wood-engraved portrait frontispieces, 32 plates and numerous illustrations, 10 maps printed in two or more colours, 3 folding, 2 in pockets at the end of each vol. [one with route marked by hand], one double-page. (Repaired tears to large folding maps in pockets, some overall light browning, stitching slightly loose.) Original green pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt (extremities lightly scuffed). Provenance: John W. Thomson (Pittsfield, Mass., bookplates). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Thomas Heazle Parke My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha relief expedition. London: William Clowes & Sons, Ltd. for Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1891. 8° (220 x 140mm.). 32pp. publisher's advertisements at back. Wood-engraved title vignette, portrait frontispiece and 17 plates, 1 folding coloured map in pocket at rear. (Small tear to fold of map.) Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and black (spine lightly soiled, extremities bumped). FIRST EDITION.
And three other works in five volumes all FIRST EDITIONS: H. M. Stanley's In Darkest Africa (London, 1890, 2 vols.), H. M. Stanley's My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia (London, 1895, 2 vols.) and David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (London, 1857), all FIRST EDITIONS in original cloth. (8)
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