Stanley - HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE

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Stanley - HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE

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Henry M Stanley

HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE IN CENTRAL AFRICA INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF FOUR MONTHS’ RESIDENCE WITH DR LIVINGSTONE

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1872

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 8vo, xxiii + 736 + [iv] pub cat pp, 28 plates + 5 maps of which 4 folding, rebound with original green buckram and gilt laid down, wear to boards, title page with foxing and heavier on protective tissue, hinge at eps cracked, some plates with offsetting; first map with age toning and two 4cm tears from hinge, map detached from first column of panels, tears along folds and intersections of folds; another map with one panel loose and some tears from edge the longest 5cm

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