Stanley (Henry Morton). The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, 1st edition, 1885

Stanley (Henry Morton). The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. A Story of Work and Exploration, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885, frontispieces, 42 engraved plates, 5 maps (2 in rear pockets), numerous in-text illustrations, bookplates & bookseller's tickets to front pastedowns, ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers & titles, volume 2 frontispiece with marginal restoration (not affecting text or image), some spotting to preliminary leaves, hinges repaired, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, backstrips toned, extremities rubbed, joints rubbed, boards marked, 8vo, together with:
Through the Dark Continent, or the Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: Sampson Low, 1878, frontispieces, 10 maps (2 in rear pockets), 33 wood-engraved plates, numerous in-text illustrations, publisher's ads to rear of volume 2, occasional dust-soiling, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine laid on, backstrips rubbed to extremities, boards faintly marked, 8vo

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