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Author: Stanley, Henry M.
Title: In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1890
Description: 2 volumes. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings & plates; steel-engraved frontispiece portraits; 3 folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. (8vo) original gilt pictorial cloth with inset silhouette of Africa. First American Trade Edition.Stanley's celebrated account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886-89 which traversed "Darkest Africa" up the Congo River through the Ituri Forest to the beleaguered province of Equatoria to rescue the reluctant governor Emin Pasha from the Mahdist revolt that had already succeeded in overwhelming Gordon at Khartoum. Rubber stamps of H.A. Crosby, institutional plates.
Author: Stanley, Henry M.
Title: In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1890
Description: 2 volumes. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings & plates; steel-engraved frontispiece portraits; 3 folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. (8vo) original gilt pictorial cloth with inset silhouette of Africa. First American Trade Edition.Stanley's celebrated account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886-89 which traversed "Darkest Africa" up the Congo River through the Ituri Forest to the beleaguered province of Equatoria to rescue the reluctant governor Emin Pasha from the Mahdist revolt that had already succeeded in overwhelming Gordon at Khartoum. Rubber stamps of H.A. Crosby, institutional plates.
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Light rubbing to cloth; some repaired hinges; very good.
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Stanley's In Darkest Africa 1890
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