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 [...].

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887

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8vo: xx-658-32 pp.; 12 pl., part. uncut (occ. foxing mainly to last pp.).

Publ. binding.

Sixth ed. of this travelogue of an 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 12 full-page pl. out of text, 3 large fold. maps (one loose) and numerous pl. in-text.
Prov. Herman Mahler (library label). - Thomas Brear (bookseller's label).