SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY (1841-1904)
SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY (1841-1904) How I Found Livingstone, travels, adventures and discoveries in Central Africa . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 8° (211 x 140mm). Frontispiece, 29 full-page steel-engraved illustrations, and 5 maps (4 folding). (One folding map neatly detached at a fold.) Modern maroon half morocco reusing original marbled boards, gilt spine, gilt edges (board edges lightly rubbed). Provenance : Major James B. Pond, presented from the author in 1890 (title-page inscription; bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY of the work that launched Stanley to fame, from the author to his friend and American lecture agent, Major Pond.
SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY (1841-1904)
SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY (1841-1904) How I Found Livingstone, travels, adventures and discoveries in Central Africa . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 8° (211 x 140mm). Frontispiece, 29 full-page steel-engraved illustrations, and 5 maps (4 folding). (One folding map neatly detached at a fold.) Modern maroon half morocco reusing original marbled boards, gilt spine, gilt edges (board edges lightly rubbed). Provenance : Major James B. Pond, presented from the author in 1890 (title-page inscription; bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY of the work that launched Stanley to fame, from the author to his friend and American lecture agent, Major Pond.
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