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In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. Vol. I-II

by Stanley, Henry Morton

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Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Published In : New York
Illustrations : 2 portrait frontispieces, 52 engraved plates (1 col), 3 folding maps (in rear pockets), text figs

Description:

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.

Condition

2vols, 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.