Through the dark continent :. or, the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, 3180912

Through the dark continent :. or, the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean,

Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904).

Date

1878

Materials

Place of origin

London

Collection

Greenway, Devon

NT 3180912

Summary

Bibliographic description

2 v., frontis., plates :. ill., maps, ports., tables ;. 23 cm. First edition? Provenance: Inscription in ink on flyleaf of vol. 1: `F.A. Miller' [i.e. Agatha Christie’s father]. Price in pencil on verso of flyleaves: `2 Vols. 42/-‘. On inside rear cover of vol. 1 is pasted ticket: `Bound by Leighton, Son and Hodge'. Binding: Casing covered in pictorial dark brown cloth, with gold and black lettering and illustrations on front and spine. Fragments from bindings loose at fronts. Some damage from damp. Melinex dustwrappers.

Makers and roles

Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904).

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