Lot 28
Henry M. Stanley, Emin Pasha, & the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
Collection of original accounts, 19th-20th century
Auction: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 1 to 30
Description
Casati, Gaetano. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891. First English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original gilt pictorial brown cloth with imitation crocodile scale texture, with 4 folding colour maps in end pockets of both volumes, plates, some coloured or tinted, numerous illustrations, ownership labels removed from pastedowns of both volumes;
Troup, J. Rose. With Stanley's Rear Column. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. First edition, 8vo, original gilt green cloth, frontispiece, folding colour map, plates, publisher's advertisements at end, spine cracking but firm, spotting on the fore-edge, binding worn and lightly stained;
Mounteney-Jephson, A.J. Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First edition, 8vo, original rust cloth, lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in black and gilt on the spine and upper board, plates and folding facsimile and map, illustrations, spotting on the fore-edge, occasional staining and spotting in text block, ownership label removed from pastedown;
Parke, Thomas Heazle. My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1891. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated, frontispiece, folding colour map in end pocket, plates, publisher's advertisements at end, with book label of bibliographer A.J.A. Symons, author of a work on Emin Pasha, on front pastedown, binding scuffed at edges;
Jameson, James S. Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. London: R.H. Porter, 1890. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt, frontispiece, 1 folding map at end, illustrations;
and 13 others (20)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman