Title: The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B...
Author: Stanley, Henry Morton
Description: xvii, [1], 551 + [1] ad pp. With 16 photogravure plates, tissue guards; folding facsimile; folding color map. 9¼x6, blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.The life of the great explorer of Africa, from his humble beginnings as an orphan in a Welsh workhouse to his meeting with Livingstone, and beyond.
Heading: zziPlace Published: London
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd.
Date Published: 1909
Author: Stanley, Henry Morton
Description: xvii, [1], 551 + [1] ad pp. With 16 photogravure plates, tissue guards; folding facsimile; folding color map. 9¼x6, blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.The life of the great explorer of Africa, from his humble beginnings as an orphan in a Welsh workhouse to his meeting with Livingstone, and beyond.
Heading: zziPlace Published: London
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd.
Date Published: 1909
Condition report
Some rubbing to joints and extremities; foxing to fore-edges and endpapers, map ill-creased, ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1909, else very good.
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Americana - Travel & Exploration
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