Live auction - Lot 891
Dans les ténèbres de l'Afrique [...]. Troisième édition.
Paris, Hachette & Cie, 1890
Hammer price: €
90
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: [6]-518-[2], [8]-482-[6] pp.; 145 pl. (foxing).
Mod. half red shagreen, marbled paper boards, gilt orn. spines with 5 raised bands. Good copy.
Third French ed. of "In darkest Africa" relating to the expedition led by Stanley in the Congo to save Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the Upper Nile. This last great private expedition into the interior of Africa caused the death of nearly two-thirds of the expedition. Ill. with 142 pl. in-text (39 full-page), 3 coloured folding maps and a printed vocabulary table in vol. II.
Ref. BL. - BnF. - Opac KBR.