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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° (215 x 144mm). 2 author portrait frontispieces, 32 full-page plates, 10 maps printed in two or three colours (4 folding, of which 2 are in pockets at end), and numerous text illustrations. (Small tears at folds of large maps.) Modern half maroon morocco reusing original marbled boards, gilt spines, gilt edges (board edges lightly rubbed). Provenance: Major J.B. Pond, presented from the author, inscription on each title dated 1890, bookplate.
PRESENTATION COPY of the first American edition, from Stanley to his friend and American agent, Major James B. Pond. When in 1886 Pond was contemplating approaching Stanley for a lecture tour in the USA, he was encouraged by Henry Ward Beecher, who told Pond: 'Get Stanley if you can. He is one of the greatest men we have. I have been reading Through the Dark Continent; it is a great book' (Pond, Eccentricities of Genius, p.263). (2)
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° (215 x 144mm). 2 author portrait frontispieces, 32 full-page plates, 10 maps printed in two or three colours (4 folding, of which 2 are in pockets at end), and numerous text illustrations. (Small tears at folds of large maps.) Modern half maroon morocco reusing original marbled boards, gilt spines, gilt edges (board edges lightly rubbed). Provenance: Major J.B. Pond, presented from the author, inscription on each title dated 1890, bookplate.
PRESENTATION COPY of the first American edition, from Stanley to his friend and American agent, Major James B. Pond. When in 1886 Pond was contemplating approaching Stanley for a lecture tour in the USA, he was encouraged by Henry Ward Beecher, who told Pond: 'Get Stanley if you can. He is one of the greatest men we have. I have been reading Through the Dark Continent; it is a great book' (Pond, Eccentricities of Genius, p.263). (2)
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