Henry M. Stanley. How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa (with laid in signatures of David Livingstone and Henry Stanley). Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1872.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Description: Laid in are clipped signatures of both David Livingstone and Henry Stanley. David Livingstone's is SIGNED without inscrition and Stanley's is inscribed "Yours Faithfully" and SIGNED in full "Henry M. Stanley; it is mounted to a heavier grade paper backing. Both are in very good condition with light toning. The gilt stamped pictorial cloth is edge rubbed with spine ends and joints frayed and corners exposed. The gilt is lightly dulled, page edges sporadically spotted. The front hinge is starting, the rear hinge is fine. There are four folding maps present; the second and third are in excellent condition, the "frontis" has two 3/4" closed tears, one at each end close to the gutter attachment and the one facing pg. 474 also has folding tears near the gutter. There is a small matching abrasion on the front pastedown and endpaper. The text is quite clean with only occasional soiling. All in all, a very good copy.

Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.