xiv, 547; xvi, 540 pp., 2 portrait frontispieces, 52 engraved plates (1 col), 3 folding maps (in rear pockets), text figs, 2vols, 8vo, cont. half leather, re-backed, remnants of the orginal spines laid down; marbled boards, endpapers and edges, rubbed, scuffed and worn at edges. One folding map with some tears to folds. First US edition (published the same year as the first UK edition). Stanley's famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (1840-1892), original name Eduard Schnitzer, the governor of the Equatorial province of Egyptian Sudan. [10748]