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New York : Charles Scribner's So, 1890-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. . Hardcover. Volume 1 only. Missing the spine, cover shows wear, tear, rubbing, and edgewear. Marbled edges and endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Adamant Media Corporation, 2000-12-04. Paperback. Used:Good.

Adamant Media Corporation, 2000-12-04. Paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York : Charles Scribner's So, 1890-01-01. Paperback. Good. . Normal like shelf wear.

Paperback / softback. New.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria:Vol. I.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. xiv, 547; xvi, 540, 2 portrait frontispieces, 52 engraved plates (1 col), 3 folding maps (in rear pockets), text figs. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo, cont. half leather, re-backed, remnants of the orginal spines laid down; marbled boards, endpapers and edges, rubbed, scuffed and worn at edges. One folding map with some tears to folds.. First US edition (published the same year as the first UK edition). Stanley's famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (1840-1892), original name Eduard Schnitzer, the governor of the Equatorial province of Egyptian Sudan..

London : Sampson Low, 1891. 5th edition. Hardcover. Poor set in the original gilt-blocked and period decorated cloth. Spines worn; spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Pasha Expedition. Sudan. Henry Morton Stanley. Equatorial Province, Central Africa.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons / J.J. Little & Co, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 128x144x48. First edition. All three fold-out maps included in rear pockets. Boards rubbed, corners slightly exposed, first gathering of volume 1 loose but included, owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1890 Hard Cover. Complete in two hardcover volumes. xiv, 547; xvi, 540 pp. The complete account of one of the most famous (and infamous) African voyages of the nineteenth century. "The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equatoria, threatened by Mahdist forces. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, the expedition came to be both celebrated, for its ambition in crossing "darkest Africa", and notorious, for the bloodshed and death left in its wake.

London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington, 1890. First Edition. Publisher's Original Cloth. Good. Small 4to (26cm). Pictorial cloth, with gilt blocked lettering to covers and spines. Two volumes, in six divisions. The subscribers' edition. Black endpapers. To front of Vol I, "This leaf not to be bound with the Volume", stating the book, "is not obtainable from the ordinary Booksellers" and is prepared for subscription only at a price of 9s for each volume. Tissue guarded frontis portrait in Vol I of Stanley. 165 woodcuts and maps, including 3 fold-out maps. Fold out coloured map to Vol I has 4cm tear to centre fold adjacent to spine, otherwise in bright condition. Vol II has a large fold out newspaper obituary mounted to flyleaf, from The Standard, of Wednesday, May 11, 1904, the day after Stanley's death, with some closed tears. Rear gutter cracking. Vol IV has fold out map to rear, intact. VI contains the other fold out map, attached to rear, with tears and a chip, approx a square inch or so,… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Illustrated by b/w tissue ports, text engravings and maps . First Edition Maps, Second US edition. c.1890. 2 volumes. Original decorated green buckram, brown eps. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 547. Appendix; xvi, 540. Appendices, Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear to cleaned covers. Hinges and all three 1890 maps in rear pockets have been archivally repaired and reinforced in-house by our binder KTB resulting in a handsome functioning working copy from books to maps, each of which is inserted in plastic in respective volume rear pockets. (Oversize: 6.25lb/2.83kg before packaging)..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. Two large octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's pictorial green cloth-covered boards; xvi,[1]-547; xvi,[1]-540; engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume and 43 inserted leaves of plates; text illustrations; large folding map ("Map of the Great Forest Region, showing the routes of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition") in rear pocket of v.1; two smaller folding maps ("Map of the Route of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition" and "Map of the Emin Pasha's Province" in rear pocket of v.2. Usual splits at folds to the maps, which are otherwise in fresh, clean condition; both volumes clean, straight, and tight, with hinges unstressed and contents fresh and free of foxing; a Near Fine set. Bookseller's ticket of the "Protective Association Publishers & Booksellers" to rear free endpaper of first volume. Stanley's account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1888-1890, a mission undertaken in the service of King Leopold of Belgium - nominally to… Read More

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.2 volumes. Original green pictoral cloth (vol. I stained). With 2 steelengraved frontispiece portraits, 3 folding maps and 150 wood-engravings. XIV,547; XVI,540 pp.First American edition. - Account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley's (1841-1904) last African expedition (1887-1889) with 700 members. He ascended the Congo River and then marched across central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha, the German-born governor of southern Sudan's Equatoria province, who had been cut off from Anglo-Egyptian forces to the north since the outbreak of a Muslim revolt six years earlier. Together they explored the Semliki River and established it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. While in the region, Stanley made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range (the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon') and arrived in Zanzibar in late 1889. He was the second European to cross Central Africa from west to east. Stanley had… Read More

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1891.2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth. With 4 (3 folding) coloured maps, 38 plates and numerous wood-engravings. XV,529; XV,472;(2) pp.First published in 1890. - Account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley's (1841-1904) last African expedition (1887-1889) with 700 members. He ascended the Congo River and then marched across central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha, the German-born governor of southern Sudan's Equatoria province, who had been cut off from Anglo-Egyptian forces to the north since the outbreak of a Muslim revolt six years earlier. Together they explored the Semliki River and established it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. While in the region, Stanley made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range (the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon') and arrived in Zanzibar in late 1889. He was the second European to cross Central Africa from west to east. Stanley had concluded treaties… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xiv, [1], 2-547, [3]; [3], iv-xvi, 540 [2] pp. Bound in original green cloth with outline of Africa embossed on the front boards in dark green and black with gilt lettering and facsimile of Stanley's signature stamped in gold, bust of Stanley in gilt and gilt lettering on each of the spines, dark brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by a steel-engraved frontispiece in volume 1 with 17 full-page illustrations, numerous smaller illustrations, large folding color map in the rear pocket, and a large folding facsimile of the Mahdi's letter demanding the surrender of Emin Pasha (with a few splits along the folds) also in rear pocket (not called for in the List of Illustrations). Volume two illustrated by a steel-engraved frontispiece with 26 additional full-page illustrations (one in color), numerous smaller illustrations, and a large color folding map and a small color folding map in the rear… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. [African Exploration] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 529; [1]; pp.xvi; 472; [2]. With 150 woodcut illustrations and maps, including three folding. Also with a copy of John Speke's map of eastern equatorial Africa loose to preliminaries of volume II. Publisher's brown cloth with titles and illustrations in black and gilt to spines and upper boards. Endpapers lightly decorated in green. Small red bookseller's stamps to preliminaries; ownerships to blank recto of frontispieces in blue ink and purple pencil. Light occasional spotting. Large tears to hinges of folding maps. Slightly shaken; rear hinges starting. Cloth rubbed to edges and joints; spines a little worn. Very good. Stanley's account of the Emin Pasha relief mission. Initiated in 1886 and directed along the Congo river into southern Sudan by Stanley's employer, Leopold II of Belgium, the mission became infamous as a result of the vicious behaviour of some… Read More

1890. 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… Read More