Search Results: in darkest africa or the quest by henry m 1841 1904

New York : Charles Scribner's So, 1890-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. . Hardcover. Volume 1 only. Missing the spine, cover shows wear, tear, rubbing, and edgewear. Marbled edges and endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

New York : Charles Scribner's So, 1890-01-01. Paperback. Good. . Normal like shelf wear.

London : Sampson Low, 1891. 5th edition. Hardcover. Poor set in the original gilt-blocked and period decorated cloth. Spines worn; spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Pasha Expedition. Sudan. Henry Morton Stanley. Equatorial Province, Central Africa.

London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington, 1890. First Edition. Publisher's Original Cloth. Good. Small 4to (26cm). Pictorial cloth, with gilt blocked lettering to covers and spines. Two volumes, in six divisions. The subscribers' edition. Black endpapers. To front of Vol I, "This leaf not to be bound with the Volume", stating the book, "is not obtainable from the ordinary Booksellers" and is prepared for subscription only at a price of 9s for each volume. Tissue guarded frontis portrait in Vol I of Stanley. 165 woodcuts and maps, including 3 fold-out maps. Fold out coloured map to Vol I has 4cm tear to centre fold adjacent to spine, otherwise in bright condition. Vol II has a large fold out newspaper obituary mounted to flyleaf, from The Standard, of Wednesday, May 11, 1904, the day after Stanley's death, with some closed tears. Rear gutter cracking. Vol IV has fold out map to rear, intact. VI contains the other fold out map, attached to rear, with tears and a chip, approx a square inch or so,… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Illustrated by b/w tissue ports, text engravings and maps . First Edition Maps, Second US edition. c.1890. 2 volumes. Original decorated green buckram, brown eps. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 547. Appendix; xvi, 540. Appendices, Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear to cleaned covers. Hinges and all three 1890 maps in rear pockets have been archivally repaired and reinforced in-house by our binder KTB resulting in a handsome functioning working copy from books to maps, each of which is inserted in plastic in respective volume rear pockets. (Oversize: 6.25lb/2.83kg before packaging)..

London St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, E.C.: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivinton Limited, 1890. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. STANLEY Henry M. HARDY P. SCHONBERG. FORESTER. MONTBARD. HALL. OXENHAM. CARRERAS. etc. Ink signed & dated by Stanley, with one hundred and fifty illustrations and maps. Two volumes in the publishers printed red cloth, gilt titles & black ink illustrations, corners bumped slightly. Spines gilt titles, edges bumped. Map end papers to both volumes. Vol 1, 1890, group portrait frontis (with guard), [3], (iv-xv), [1], [1], 2-529 pp, [1], large folding map (coloured), with stamp (WH)? to verso, loose at fpd, 15 full page illustrations, 59 illustrations within text, ink owners stamp to tp (HW?), 2 small brass fittings supporting the elastic map holder to front board, almost invisible cloth edge repair at spine, ink owners name to verso frontis (Clive Christie, Cambridge). Vol 2, 1890, portrait frontis with… Read More