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Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Rebound with new endpapers with original front and back panels laid down. Panels discol. and rubbed. [ix] + 566pp. + 31pp. catalogue. Frontis, and all full page illus. present apart from that to face p. 480. The 2 maps and 2 charts are missing. The very early leaves are chipped and rubbed at the edges. A couple of leaves and plates are detached and these are rubbed at the outer edge. No markings and no discol. Heavy volume.
Seller: Snookerybooks, Philippolis, South Africa
Henry M. Stanley. Through the Dark Continent Vol II. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878.
Price: US$133.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sampson Low UK 1878. Hard Cover original Leather. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket; as Issued. First UK Edition. Volume two only. Bright unfaded embossed covers, virtually no edge wear . Faint library stamp (Ballaarat-East Public Library) to inside page, but otherwise in remarkable condition. Postage may be extra.
Seller: Morshead Books, Beaumaris, VIC, Australia
Stanley, Henry M.. Through the Dark Contitent. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes, brown cloth, with two large fold out maps. Maps are in good shape, very nice on the whole with some tears along the folds on both. Volume one has bumping and wear (fraying to one) to corners, modest wear to top and bottom of spine, modest toning to spine, bookplate. otherwise in nice shape, clean and attractive, with a solid binding and clean pages. Volume two has loose hinges attached by webbing (still pretty strong), modest wear to corners and top and bottom of spine, very light rubbing. otherwise clean and attractive (without the toning of the first volume). Overseas shipping would be much more.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$346.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is a rare first edition of Henry M. Stanley's "Through the Dark Continent" published in 1878. Between 1874 and 1877, Henry Morton Stanley led an Anglo-American expedition into Central Africa, embarking on a journey of exploration and discovery. While the identification of the Congo River's course stands out as a significant achievement, it was just one of the numerous geographical puzzles unraveled during this remarkable venture.The expedition, beginning its odyssey from Bagamoyo in Tanzania on November 17, 1874, formed a colossal procession stretching over half a mile. Over the next two and a half years, the expedition encountered formidable challenges. They contended with extreme temperatures, navigated diplomatic complexities with Emperor Mtesa of Uganda and Wanyoro chief Mirambo, negotiated safe passage through the rainforest with the notorious Arab trader Tippu-Tib, and engaged in over thirty skirmishes and battles against hostile tribes on land and water.Stanley's geographical accomplishments during this expedition were unparalleled. He spent almost two months circumnavigating Lake Victoria, confirming its sole outlet at Ripon Falls and thereby establishing, as he believed, the definitive source of the Nile. The expedition reached the Atlantic Ocean on August 9, 1877, after covering a distance of over seven thousand miles. Includes all illustrations and illustrated plates and includes all maps, except for eastern equatorial Africa Map. In good condition. Half-bound in black leather with blue cloth-covered boards and gilt titles to the spine. Marble endpapers. The binding is firm, and pages are clean with occasional foxing. Exlibris plate of Christ Church Oxford on both volumes' front pastedown. A large pull-out map located halfway through volume 2 has a tear approximately 8 cm along the first fold but does not affect the map. Boards have moderate edge-wear with some notable scuffs to the leather.
Seller: Hewett's Books, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Stanley, Henry M. Through the Dark Continent. Sampson Low, Marston, 1878.
Price: US$464.36 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean - in two volumes. Volume one: 522 pages with illustrations. Volume two 566 pages with illustrations and maps. Volume 1: green boards with minor bumping to corners and top edge - bumps to spine - page edges untrimmed and age discoloured - front hinge exposed - slight foxing on early pages - large brown patch on back endpaper - maps page torn out at back - owner's stamp on front endpaper. - Volume 2: green boards with minor corner bumping and to spine - page edges untrimmed and age discoloured - front and back hinges exposed - large brown patch on back endpaper - very slight foxing on early pages -fold-out map complete in back - owner's stamp on front endpaper.
Seller: Neville Wade, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo. xv, 522pp and ix, 566pp + xxxii publisher's advertisements (dated April 1878). Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt- and black lettered at the spine and upper boards with a double rule and brown and gilt stamped topographical design. With a different portrait frontispiece to each volume, 34 plates, 115 illustrations, and 10 maps including two large folding examples in pockets to the rear boards (one of which is a facsimile, and the other exhibiting some careful taped repair to some of the natural folds). Some bruising to the backstrip ends. Edges spotted and with a little discolouration to the rear board of the first volume. The protective frontispiece tissue absent from both volumes, resulting in some off-set browning from the plates to the adjacent title pages, and some spotting to the preliminary leaves and to very occasional leaves throughout. The outer rear hinge of the second volume slightly split (a result of the facsimile map being on slightly thicker paperstock). Some unsightly creasing to the final page of the publisher's catalogue. A nice sound set of Stanley's account of his 1874-77 Central African expedition: a 7,000 mile trek exploring Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, and the Lualaba and Congo rivers, and ultimately determining the source of the Nile.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Henry M. Stanley. Through the Dark Continent. , 1878.
Price: US$826.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1878. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. London. 2 volumes. In-8ｺ 522+566+32 p疊inas. Capa dura. 1ｪ edi鈬o. Ilustrado no texto e em separado. Com 10 mapas, dos quais 2 de grande dimens縊 em bolsa prria na contra guarda de cada volume. Com 32 p疊inas da publicidade dos editores no 伃timo volume, com data de abril de 1878. Encaderna鋏es editoriais. Assinaturas de posse. Indica鈬o do local de compra e respetivo pre輟. Bom estado.
Seller: AdLib[[er]], Lisboa, Portugal
Price: US$1003.81 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes: 522 pp, 566 pp followed by publisher's catalogue, tinted end-papers, b&w plates and illustrations, folding maps bound in and in rear pockets, lacks front end-papers, else fine set in black and gold blocked, illustrated, brown, cloth boards.
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1770.91 + shipping
Description: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. Two volumes, 8vo. Original dark brown cloth, blocked in black, with an elaborate pattern, showing the continent of Africa in black, with the course of the Nile crossing it in gilt, surmounting a narrative scene, also in black, of natives rowing through a rocky landscape; all of this surmounted by the title in gilt and black; pp. xiv, [2], 522; ix, 566 (with 32-page publisher's booklist, dated April 1878, bound in at rear), with 2 lithographed portrait frontispieces, retaining tissue guards, 32 full-page wood-engraved plates, 10 maps, several folding and coloured in outline, and including 2 in pockets at rear, numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout; cloth with expert repairs, inner hinges strengthened, spotted in places only, alittle offsetting from frontispieces, still a good set of a pivotal work. First edition. A classic account of the search for the sources of the Nile. Stanley's expedition, sponsored by the London Daily Telegraph and the New York Herald, completed the work of Burton, Speke and Livingstone. The epic journey, lasting for over two and a half years. 'The procession that departed from Bagamoyo (Tanzania) on 17 November 1874 stretched for more than half a mile and included dozens of men carrying sections of the Lady Alice, the boat named for his seventeen-year-old fiancà e, with which Stanley intended to explore Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and Livingstone's Lualaba River. During the next two and a half years, the expedition would struggle in temperatures reaching as high as 138 degrees; the powerful Emperor Mtesa of Uganda and the Wanyoro chief Mirambo would consume a great deal of Stanley's time and test his diplomatic skills; he would have to negotiate with a notorious Arab ivory and slave trader named Tippu-Tib for safe passage of his men through the great rain forest; and he and his men would fight more than thirty skirmishes and battles on land and water against hostile tribes. The geographic prizes Stanley achieved on this expedition were unparalleled. He spent almost two months circumnavigating Lake Victoria, confirming that the only outlet was at Ripon Falls and hence establishing for good, he thought, the source of the Nile. He scouted Lake Albert, then moved south and west to Lake Tanganyika, which he also circumnavigated, proving it had no connection with Lake Albert. Stanley then solved the remaining geographical puzzle, determining that the Lualaba was not part of the Niger or Nile rivers but ultimately flowed into the Congo. He reached the Atlantic Ocean on 9 August 1877, after a journey of more than seven thousand miles, in utter exhaustion. Back in London, he learned that Alice had not waited for him' (Delaney, Princeton Visual Materials, online). The two large-scale maps in the rear pockets are amongs the best of the 19th century charting Central Africa. Mansell IV p. 379; Hilmy, II, p.258; Mendelssohn (1979) IV, p.379.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1774.33 + shipping
Description: - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London 1878, 14,5x23cm, 2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur. - Edition originale. Reliures de l'éditeur en pleine percaline marron, dos lisses illustrés en noir de paysages africains, mentions dorées de l'éditeur en queues des dos, premiers plats décorés d'illustrations en noir représentant des paysages africains et frappés en leurs centres d'une carte de l'Afrique traversée par le fleuve Livingstone doré encadré des deux lacs Victoria et Tanganika dorés, gardes et contreplats de papier jaune, coins légèrement émoussés. Ouvrage orné de 2 portraits en frontispice, de 8 cartes, de 2 grandes cartes dépliantes contenues dans une pochette en chaque fin de volume, ainsi que de 33 planches hors-texte et de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte. Deux petites taches noires sur le second plat du premier volume. Agréable exemplaire. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France