Henry Morton STANLEY

First edition.
Publisher's full brown cloth binding, smooth spines illustrated in black with African landscapes, gilt publisher's imprints at foot of spines, front boards decorated with black illustrations depicting African landscapes and stamped at their centers with a map of Africa crossed by the gilt Livingstone river framed by the two gilt lakes Victoria and Tanganika, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped.
Work illustrated with 2 frontispiece portraits, 8 maps, 2 large folding maps contained in a pocket at the end of each volume, as well as 33 plates and numerous illustrations in the text.
Two small black stains on the rear board of the first...

New edition of the French translation illustrated with 16 vignettes on wood and 1 folding map at the end of the volume.
Binding in half morocco green morocco, smooth back beautifully adorned with gold cartridges decorated with floral and typographic golden patterns, marbled paper plates with small scratches without gravity, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, three light snags on the cuts, Contemporary binding.
Our copy is enriched with a signed autograph dedication of Henry Morton Stanley pasted at the head of a guard and comes from another copy , the end of the signature seems to have been scraped.