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Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904) Through the Dark Continent and Two Other Titles. First American trade edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878, in two quarto volumes, illustrated, folded maps in pockets; bound in half gold-tooled contemporary morocco with marbled paper boards and edges; [together with] The American Testimonial Banquet to Henry M. Stanley, in recognition of his Heroic Achievements in the cause of Humanity, Science and Civilization, London: [no printer], 1890, octavo, engraved title, five photographic portraits of participants in the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: Stanley, W.G. Stairs, Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert Henry Nelson, and A.J. Mounteney-Jephson; each leaf mounted to heavy card, with the program for the evening, menu, and photographs of the Stanley shield and medallions designed and copyrighted by Henry S. Wellcome, business partner of Silas Burroughs, signed by Burroughs and eleven others on ffep, including Parke, Nelson, James Burton Pond (1838-1903), Brent Good (1837-1915), Moncure D. Conway (1832-1907), M.G. Grant Duff (1829-1906), and others, 12 pages, bound in full calf with ornate Stanley embossed shield on front board in blind (spine detached, contents good); [and] The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, ed. Dorothy Stanley, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909, full red cloth. (4)
