or the quest rescue and retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890.
First edition, trade issue. 8vo. 2 vols. Original pictorial cloth blocked in black & gilt.
An attractive first edition account of Stanley's last major African venture, an attempt to extract Emin Pasha, a European doctor serving as governor of a remote Sudanese province that had been cut off by a religious uprising. Between 1887 and 1889 his expedition forced a path through the Congo basin and dense, unmapped rainforest, reached the Great Lakes, and eventually made for the Indian Ocean with Emin in tow. The journey was catastrophic in human cost but geographically significant, bringing the first detailed reports of Lake Edward and the glaciated Ruwenzori mountains, long rumoured in classical sources.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.
Second edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, edges gilt.
The uncommon cloth-bound second edition, the work having been published the previous year, but here furnished with new and revised illustrations. A collection of fantasy stories set in a magical land called the Land Under the Sunset, which is located beyond the horizon.