Lot 643

Stanley, Henry M.






Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
£750
Description
How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa. London: Sampson Low [&c.], 1872. First edition, 8vo, mounted albumen portrait frontispiece, 5 maps (4 folding) & 28 plates, illustrations, with an Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Joyce loosely inserted, asking Joyce not to mention that he has given him unspecified particulars "or it will be said I am courting popularity or in this age that it is simply impossible", original brown pictorial cloth gilt, a few spots, upper hinge slightly weak





