Stanley (Henry M.) The Congo
£650
and the founding of the free state: a story of work and exploration
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885.
First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, lettered in red to upper covers and gilt to spines.
Considered by the author to be his most important work, developing on his belief in the ‘gospel of enterprise’. James Edge Partington was a British anthropologist, acknowledged as an authority on Pacific ethnology.
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Minor softening to heads of spines, very slight rubbing, but really a very good set.
Frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 5 folding maps.
Provenance: James Edge Partington (bookplate), anthropologist.
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