STANLEY, HENRY MORTON.
In Darkest Africa or The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.
London, William Clowes and Sons, Limited for Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1890.
8vo. Two volumes, both in the original pictoral cloth-binding, decorated in gilt and black and gilt lettering to spine and front board. Light wear to extremities, mainly to lower and upper part of spine. Very light occassional brownspotting. Otherwise a fine copy. pp. xv, 529; xv, 472, [2, publisher's advertisement]; 1 wood-engraved frontispiece and 1 in photogravure, 37 wood-engraved plates, 3 folding, colour-printed lithographic maps, 1 colour-printed lithographic geological profile, 1 folding letterpress table, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations.
First edition of the famous account of Stanley's 1887-1889 expedition to Lake Albert to rescue the German-born Emin Pasha. This expedition opened up parts of East Africa to British control. Stanley's expedition through the heart of East Africa to the land of the Nile originally intended as a rescue mission for Emin Pasha although failing in its primary objective Stanley discovered the snowcapped range of Ruwenzori the mountains of the moon. A new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza etc.
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DKK 4.500,00