[STANLEY, HENRY M.]. Through the Dark Continent; or, the Sourcres of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. London: George Newnes, 1899.
Revised edition with a new preface by the author especially written for this edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Cloth-bound. Octavo (260 x 180 mm.), pp. xxxii, 400; xi, [1], 419, [1]. Half-titles, frontispiece portraits (after Walery in the first volume) and dedication leaf to the first volume. With a new preface by the author, written for this edition. First volume illustrated with 16 full-page plates out of the text, 42 smaller illustrations in the text, and 7 plates out of the text with full-page maps, one of which is a large folding map showing Stanley s route outlined in red. Second volume illustrated with 17 full-page plates out of the text and 73 smaller illustrations in the text. Original publisher's illustrated burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped figures, beveled board edges. All edges gilt. Coated endpapers. Printed by William Clowes and Sons. Prize plate to the front of each volume. Condition: FINE. An exquisite set and almost without fault. Covers and contents remarkably fresh and clean. Tiny tear to folding map. Scarce thus.
