1890 In Darkest Africa, or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first US trade edition of Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley's account of his nineteenth century explorations of Africa and the Congo. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.

The expedition started in 1886 and ended in 1889, and was the last major European expedition in the deepest parts of Africa in the nineteenth century. It became infamous due to the number of deaths of the crew and the violence used, which made it the last expedition of its kind: the following expeditions would be government-led and in pursuit of political, military, or scientific goals. 

Collated, illustrated a portrait frontispiece to each volume, and with one-hundred and fifty full page and vignette illustrations. With two folding maps to the rear of volume II, lacking one folding maps to the rear of volume I.

An impressively detailed study of this important expedition.