Description
The first American edition of Through The Dark Continent by Henry M. Stanley, published in New York in 1878.
Octavo, [two volumes], xiv, [10pp maps], 522pp, [4]; ix, [2], 566pp, [2pp ads], [2]. Publisher’s decorative green cloth, title in gilt, embossed in red and black. Slight bow to covers of both volumes. Hinges of Volume I starting, dampstain through rear endpapers of Volume I.
Both volumes are complete with frontispiece portraits, 34 engraved plates, 10 color maps (two large fold-out) and hundreds of in-text woodcut engravings. Light foxing to plates in Volume I, both large foldout maps with splits to the hinges, some foxing to verso, housed in rear compartment of both volumes.
(Hosken, 189)
