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Henry M. Stanley

The Congo and the Founding of its Free State

Harper & Brothers

1885

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First edition finely bound two-volume set of the book The Congo and the Founding of its Free State by the explorer Henry M. Stanley.

  • Sold as a set of 2.
  • Henry M. Stanley (Welsh-American).
  • The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration.
  • New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
  • Full-page pictorial frontispieces with tissue guards; black-and-white plates and in-text illustrations throughout.
  • Each volume with foldout map in pocket to rear.
  • Original green pictorial cloth bindings with gilt lettering and brown endpapers

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Gift and owner inscriptions to both volumes.

Bindings with some edgewear, bumping to corners and spine ends.

Mild sunning and cracks to spine.

Scattered foxing.

Feature(s)

First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Travel, topography and voyages, Fine bindings, History

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