Live auction - Lot 1073
[Africa]
In darkest Africa [...].
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons; Ibid, J. J. Little & Co., 1890
Hammer price: €
120
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: xiv-547, xvi-540 pp. (joints and bookblock loosening of vol. I).
Publ. ill. green cloth, flat spine gilt titled (corners bumped, sl. rubbed spine).
First ed. of Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to the land of The Nile. Simultaneously published in New York, London and Berlin (German). With 2 (of 3) coloured fold. maps, 3 pl. out of text and numerous ill. in-text (many full-page).
Ref. Chadenat 1752 (French trsl.). - Hosken 189. - Opac KBR.