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HENRY MORTON STANLEY (1841-1904)
Through the Dark Continent, London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. 8° (185 x 125mm.). Wood-engraved frontispiece and 11 plates, 2 folding maps at end. (A few light spots.) Original publisher's cloth, partly unopened.
With 28 other books by and on Stanley, all later editions, including How I found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa (London, 1895), Comassie and Magdala. The Story of two British Campaigns in Africa (London, 1891), Magdala (London, 1896), and The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (edited by Dorothy Stanley, Boston & New York, 1909). (29)
Through the Dark Continent, London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. 8° (185 x 125mm.). Wood-engraved frontispiece and 11 plates, 2 folding maps at end. (A few light spots.) Original publisher's cloth, partly unopened.
With 28 other books by and on Stanley, all later editions, including How I found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa (London, 1895), Comassie and Magdala. The Story of two British Campaigns in Africa (London, 1891), Magdala (London, 1896), and The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (edited by Dorothy Stanley, Boston & New York, 1909). (29)
Provenance
Lady Stanley, and thence by descent to the present owner
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