A Voice From the Congo
Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, And Descriptive Notes
Scribners, 1910.
First American edition. 8vo. Original dark green cloth, ruled and with vignette in blind, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Sixty black and white plates after sketches, photographs and bronzes by the author. A very good copy indeed, the cloth clean and bright, with a small bump to the fore-edge, affecting the edges of a few pages. Contemporary ownership inscription to the front endpaper.
A memoir of travel in the Congo by a notable explorer and man of action, member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, and one of the foremost artists of Central African life of the late-nineteenth century.
Stock ID: 38298
£95.00
