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ex-lib.first edition rebound 2 VOLUMES .529/472pp ills.[b/w w.2 [of 3] fold-out maps;1 plate and 1 map missing from vol.2] VG- (rebound in black half-cloth w.green cloth boards,original leather spines laid down but with gilt libr.stamps,sl.soiling to leather,new eps,prelims.of vol.1 detached but present,contents mod.foxed,linen-backed fold-out map in vol.1 bound in at rear,tight)

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1890. Hardcover Cloth. 8vo., 547, 540 pp., covers rubbed, edges frayed, hinges cracked and weak, Great Forest map tearing and chipping at folds .

Two large octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's pictorial green cloth-covered boards; xvi,[1]-547; xvi,[1]-540; engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume and 43 inserted leaves of plates; text illustrations; large folding map ("Map of the Great Forest Region, showing the routes of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition") in rear pocket of v.1; two smaller folding maps ("Map of the Route of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition" and "Map of the Emin Pasha's Province" in rear pocket of v.2. Usual splits at folds to the maps, which are otherwise in fresh, clean condition; both volumes clean, straight, and tight, with hinges unstressed and contents fresh and free of foxing; a Near Fine set. Bookseller's ticket of the "Protective Association Publishers & Booksellers" to rear free endpaper of first volume. Stanley's account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1888-1890, a mission undertaken in the service of King Leopold of Belgium - nominally to rescue Emin Pasha, governor of Equatoria, who by the mid-1880s had found himself isolated and under attack by Mahdist forcest; but with the tacit intent of annexing further territories in the ever-expanding Belgian colony of Congo. Long considered a classic, the work is depressing to read today, a document so rich in colonial self-regard that one is not surprised that the mission's less savory aspects, especially its indulgent attitude toward the Zanzibarian slaver Tippu Tip and the cruel treatment of native people by European members of Stanley's crew, go essentially unremarked. Still a key work of imperialist literature, handsomely produced, infrequently found in such nice condition.

London, Sampson low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. Small 4to. 6 original pictorial full cloth. Gilt lettering to spines and upper covers. Light wear to spine-end. Part 6 lacking ca. 1 cm. of cloth at upper capital. Corners bumped. XXXI, 160 161-336 337-512 513-529, (1), XV, 144 145-320 321-472, XV + 62 plates, 3 folding coloured maps, with a coloured section, 105 illustrations in the text. 2 of the folded maps with tear repair. Internally clean and fine. First appearance of this subscriber?s edition, here in the rare 6 original pictoral cloth bindings. The first volume of this set contains an introduction by J. Scott Keltie on Mr. Stanley's African career with 5 full-page and 1 small illustration not called for in the list of plates. Stanley's expedition through the heart of East Africa to the land of the Nile originally intended as a rescue mission for Emin Pasha although failing in its primary objective Stanley discovered the snowcapped range of Ruwenzori the mountains of the moon. A new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza etc.