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London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1872. The second state of the first edition and an early issue, formatted as the first edition and probably just a continued issuance of the first with a new type slug on the title-page, stating “second edition”. With 28 full page illustrations, 26 illustrations in the text, 6 maps and plans (including one large folding map). Thick, large 8vo, publisher’s original brick-red cloth elaborately and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the cover and spine. xxiii, 736, 8 pp ads. A very pleasing, handsome and solid copy of this handsome book, unusually sturdy, the cloth bright and clean, the gilt and black decorations in fine order, unusually clean and fresh, the rear inner hinge sometime mended, light wear to the tips. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK AND THE LANDMARK WORK THAT SECURED STANLEY’S REPUTATION. The text of the first edition of this formidable book was often reprinted and remains to this day…

An account by Henry Morton Stanley about his expedition to find the missing missionary and explorer Dr. David Livingstone in Africa.