2 works in 3 vol.

1. Cinq années au Congo 1879-1884 [...]. Ouvrage illustré de 120 gravures sur bois et de 4 cartes en couleur, dont une carte murale dressée par H.M. Stanley. Brussels, Institut national de géographie, [1885]. Large 8vo. Publ. ill. cloth, flag of the Congo Free State on front cover (sm. traces of use). 1st French ed. (?), an edition was published the same year in Paris by Dreyfous. Illustrated with 2 portraits, 38 full-page pl., 4 maps (incl. the wall map in fine in 3 parts) and ill. in text. - 2. A travers le continent mystérieux. Découverte des sources méridionales du Nil, circumnavigation du lac Victoria et du lac Tanganika, descente du fleuve Livingstone ou Congo jusqu'à l'Atlantique [...]. Paris, Hachette, 1879. 2 vol. 8vo. Half green shagreen (rubbed). 1st ed. of Stanley's Anglo-American expedition to Central Africa between 1874 and 1877. Illustrated with 2 portraits of Stanley, 78 full-page pl., 10 maps (2 in fine) and ill. in text.