1890 First Edition.
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Estate item. Selling as found. Maps are in poor condition but thankful they are still with the books. Please see pictures for details and condition. All items sold as found and as is.
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Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings is in poor shape and very loose and a few pages are partially detached. An African classic! A portion of this sale goes to the Second Harvest Food Bank in Northwest North Carolina in honor of my father-in-law who was a director of a food bank.
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Vol I has 15 full page plates, 59 other in-text illustrations and a fold-out colour map of the Emin Relief Expedition. One repair to the first map. Bound in dark red hardboards with gilt and black illustrations to both front boards and spines.
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It was sensational news. Emin was safe, although the expedition to relieve him had cost the lives of at least 700 people. Contains original large fold-out map the Congo/Great Forest Region showing the Emin Pasha relief expedition.
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Original red/brown cloth with decorative gold gilt lettering and gold gilt illustrations on the front cover and the spine. Full title: "In Darkest Africa or the Quest and Rescue of Emin, Governor of Equatoria".
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First Edition. Salesman's sample copy, preceding the limited and trade editions. Good in the green publisher's cloth matching the trade edition, rubbed and faded at the surface and edges. Samples of the cloth binding and full morocco spines glued inside the front board.
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