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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. [2], xv, [1], 529, [1]; [2], xv, [1], 472 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings on tissue paper, mounted on plates or in the text; photogravure frontispieces on mounted India paper; 6 original etched plates, each signed in pencil by artist G. Montbard; 3 folding maps, 2 of them large & backed with linen. (4to) 29.5x23 cm (11½x9"), three-quarter brown morocco and vellum, lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. No. 166 of 250 copies of the Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe. First American Edition.

Signed by Stanley at the limitation statement in Volume 1. Elegantly printed on large paper, with striking engravings on tissue. The book is Stanley's narrative of his expedition to the Egyptian Equatorial province begun in 1887, where the Madhist revolt in the Sudan has isolated the governor there.

Some soiling and rubbing to covers, some loss to extremities; front hinge of vol. 1 cracked and separating; some page toning and soiling; overall veyr good.