Books

Two vols. Thick 8vo. xiv, 522; ix, [3], 566 pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Woodcut engraved frontisp. both vols., numerous colour maps (2 large folding, repaired and laid-in), woodcut engraved text illustrations & plates throughout. Pictorial forest-green publisher's cloth, wraparound cover art, gilt lettering front covers & spines (inner hinges expertly repaired, slight repairs to rear map pockets, closed tears at creases of large folding maps nearly repaired), still a VG- set. First American edition of Stanley's famous explorations through Africa, from Egypt down through Kenya and over to West Africa, as he explored the great lakes of Central Africa, surveying their size and position, hunted for the sources of the Nile, and followed the Congo River from the depths of the continent to the Atlantic Ocean.

A detailed narrative of Stanley's expedition through Africa from the eastern to the western coast, shedding light on the uncharted interior of the continent.