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    THE QUENTIN KEYNES COLLECTION

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    7 - 8 April 2004

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    Lot 465 A

    STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). 'The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: Mr. H.M. Stanley's march through the Great Forest Region of Central Africa from the Congo to the Nile Lakes,' The Illustrated London News, London: 3 March 1890. 2° (416 x 230mm). Double-page plate ['second supplement'], illustrations throughout, many full-page. (Some marginal soiling and short tears.) Original pictorial wrappers.

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    GBP 956

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    GBP 800 - GBP 1,200

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    STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904). 'The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: Mr. H.M. Stanley's march through the Great Forest Region of Central Africa from the Congo to the Nile Lakes,' The Illustrated London News, London: 3 March 1890. 2° (416 x 230mm). Double-page plate ['second supplement'], illustrations throughout, many full-page. (Some marginal soiling and short tears.) Original pictorial wrappers.

    STANLEY, H.M. '"The Graphic" Stanley Number,' The Graphic, London: 30 April 1890. 2° (406 x 308mm). Plates and illustrations, some coloured. Original coloured pictorial wrappers; together with 5 issues of The New York Times, the earliest 9 March 1867 containing an obituary of David Livingstone (1813-1873), others of 26 July, 28 November and 5 December 1872 reporting on Stanley's relief expedition, the final issue, 30 March 1874, recording the 'last hours of the great explorer'; and Boston Post, no. 91, 15 October 1869; Evening Bulletin, no. 34, San Francisco: 31 August 1872; Harper's Weekly, 4 issues, 19 January 1878-11 July 1885, all with articles on Livingstone and/or Stanley; with:

    A collection of printed ephemera, comprising: Stanley's First Opinions Portugal and the Slave Trade. Lisbon: Chistovão Rodrigues, for the Geographical Society of Lisbon, 1883; Address of Mr. H.M. Stanley on England and the Congo and Manchester Trade, and the work and aims of the International Association, given at Manchester Chamber of Commerce, 21 October 1884. Manchester: A. Ireland and Co., 1884, later paper wrappers; Corporation of London. Conversazione and Reception at Guildhall to welcome Mr. H.M. Stanley, on his return from "Darkest Africa," On the 13th of MAY, 1890', programme, one leaf, folio, and programme of music, one leaf, 4°; Authorized souvenir programme of the Henry M. Stanley Lecture Tour through the United States and Canada ... Season of 1890 and 1891 (wrappers worn). (17)

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