Ventes live - Lot 657
Five Years with the Congo Cannibals.
New York, Robert Bonner's Sons, 1890
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Description du lot
Lge 8vo: [8]-308 pp.; 83 pl. (bookblock loosening).
Publ. ill. cloth, top edge gilt (rubbed).
First ed. (Brit. & Am. ed. simultaneous) of this travelogue by Ward, a member of the Emin Pasha relief expedition led by Stanley. He was a sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer. While in the Congo Free State he became a close friend of Roger Casement. Ill. with 82 pl. in-text (27 full-page) and 1 map of the African continent and the course of the Congo
Ref. BnF. (Brit. ed.) - Czech 170. - Opac KBR (Brit. ed.).