Fine Books & Manuscripts

STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841–1904). In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890. 2 volumes, 8vo. Steel engraved portrait frontispieces, numerous woodcuts and plates, 3 folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. Publisher’s textured green cloth gilt with inset silhouettes of Africa, brown coated endpapers (Volume I joints starting, a bit of fraying at extreme ends of spine, else a clean set). FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION of the author’s own account of his expedition through the African continent. –– [TOGETHER WITH:] In Darkest Africa… London: Sampson Law, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. 2 volumes, 8vo. Numerous plates and vignettes, 3 color folding maps, folding table. Early half calf over marbled boards, 2 morocco spine labels gilt, raised bands, elegant gilt scrollwork and centerpieces in compartments, all edges marbled, stamp–signed by Mudie (light rubbing to corners and along joints). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. –– [ALSO WITH:] The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Edited Dorothy Stanley. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. 8vo. 16 photogravures, color folding map. Original red cloth stamped in gilt (few spots of fraying along spine, joints cracked and starting, remnants of bookplate removal to pastedowns). FIRST EDITION. –– Together, 3 works in 5 volumes, all 8vo, all first editions, condition generally good to very good.