Africa

First edition. Landscape 4to (21.5 x 31.5 cm) , 20 chromolithographs after Lloyd, including title-page vignette, extra-illustrated with the complete set of 20 original watercolour drawings by lloyd, handsomely bound by Riviere in full crushed red levant morocco, gilt extra, broad gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, slipcase, joints lightly rubbed, a unique item in fine condition.

Third, second & second editions, 3 works in 1 volume, 12mo, xiv, 213, [23]; 106; 96pp., engraved title, five folding maps by Kaerius and an engraved plate in first work; 3 portraits added as frontispieces, 3 blanks before each work, contemporary ink-lettered vellum, a fine copy.

First edition. Landscape folio (27 x 38 cm), vi, [7]-18 pp., hand-coloured lithograph map and 10 hand-coloured lithographs (including one folding panorama and some with two or more images), 2pp. list of subscribers at end, original printed wrappers, spine renewed, well preserved in modern morocco-backed green cloth box, a fine copy.

First edition, 8vo., xi, xiii, 305, [1], 86, [4], 23, [1] pp., large folding map of the River Gambia (splits to folds), 11 engraved plates and plans (1 folding), contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt fillets to covers, raised bands ruled in gilt, upper joint cracked but firm, head of spine worn, internally clean and fresh.

35 items bound in three volumes, folio, contemporary red half morocco gilt, original wrappers not present, a very handsome collection.

3 pages, 8vo, autograph letter, signed, browned at edges, together with a photograph of Livingstone, short split to fold.

Three-page autograph letter, signed, to an unnamed correspondent. Together with a photograph of Baker, framed and glazed.

First edition. 8vo, with a tipped-in photograph and an autograph letter by Stanley, 12 printed leaves, on green or blue paper, mounted on thick white card. With photographic portraits of Stanley, W.G. Stairs, Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert Henry Nelson, and A.J. Mounteney-Jephson by Henry van de Weyde, London, mounted on 5 leaves, with two further photographic prints showing the Stanley Testimonial Shield and medallions designed by Henry Wellcome, both mounted on one page. Original calf, upper cover embossed with the shield of the United States emblazoned with the name 'Stanley', and with the American eagle above, white-and-gold patterned endpapers, gilt edges, neatly rebacked, a very good copy.

First U.S. edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, inscribed presentation copy. xv, 529; xv, 472 pp., 2 pages ads at end, 2 frontispieces, 3 folding maps (2 large with tears to folds), 37 plates, numerous text illustrations, modern brown half morocco gilt over old marbled boards.

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, viii, 447; viii, 588 pp., 2 portrait frontispieces, numerous wood-engraved plates, 2 maps (1 large folding), original green cloth gilt, light wear to extremities, a fine example.