Lot 151: [STANLEY, Henry Morton, his copy]. -- BURTON, Richard Francis. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. London: Sampson Low. Marston, Low, and Searle, 1876.

[STANLEY, Henry Morton, his copy]. -- BURTON, Richard Francis. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. London: Sampson Low. Marston, Low, and Searle, 1876.

2 volumes, 8υo (221 x 138 mm). 4 wood-engraved plates, 2 folding lithographic maps printed in blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations. (Occasional thumb-soiling.) Original green cloth blocked in black with gilt vignettes on upper cover and spine, gilt spine lettering, dark brown endpapers (covers slightly soiled, one corner bumped). Provenance: M.C. Carter Blake (ownership label on front pastedowns); H.M. Stanley (sold by his descendants, Christie's London, 24 September 2002, lot 153).

FIRST EDITION. With 2 pages of pencil notes in an unidentified hand, possibly Carter Blake's, loosely inserted between pp. 154-155 of vol. II. The notes are evidently by someone familiar with the region, referring to the geography of the Gaboon river, the Western Ghats, "the Ghats E & W," the Ogobe, and "the lofty Fernando Po (9350 ft.)." Also to diet and the necessity for alcohol as a medicine, ending with approval of Burton's "Grand general view of the African Continent vol. II: 154." Hosken p. 34; Penzer p. 94. (2)

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