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 [...].

2 vol., 8vo: xiv-[10]-522, ix-[2]-566 pp.; 193 pl. (damp stains to first and last ff. in vol. I, lge tear p. 1 vol. II repaired with tape).

Half shagreen, boards, gilt orn. spines with 5 raised bands, endpapers and edges marbled (sl. rubbed).

First ed. 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.). - BnF (id.). - Opac KBR.