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

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2 vol., 8vo; 42 pl. (tear in 1 map).

Ill. publ. cloth (joints sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped).

First edition of Stanley's Anglo-American expedition to Central-Africa between 1874 and 1877. The discovery of the Congo was one of the many geographical problems solved during this expedition. Ill. with 2 front. portraits of Stanley (before and after the journey), 10 maps (2 large folding), 32 full-page pl. and many ill. in-text.
Ref. BL (London ed.).