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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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About This Item
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..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. Vol. I-II
- Author
- Stanley, Henry Morton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- B5936; Exploration of Africa; Henry Stanley; PBFA
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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