Description

• First Edition [Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, 1891]; xxviii, 526, [2 blank], 32 Publisher ads pages; green cloth gilt illustration to front board, titling on spine, lightly marked on front board, rubbed & slightly bumped at extremities, three spot stains on block base, an excellent copy
• Folded route map in rear pocket [excellent condition, fine but for toning on verso of the two panels forming the exterior once fully folded]
• Complete with 17 plates [collated – list on xxvii has plates out of sequence but correctly paginated]
• Contains Parke’s journal, modified only slightly for publication & is offered “…as supplementary, in some measure, to Mr Stanley’s volumes” [being Darkest Africa, published in 1890]
• The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition [1887-89] was the last of the large-scale British explorations of Africa. Headed by Henry Morton Stanley, it consisted of 700 men, many of whom lost their lives traversing the continent.
• Includes Parke’s celebrated treatment of William Stairs, sucking poison from an arrow wound [the arrowhead broke off inside Stairs’ chest & wasn’t removed until 15 months later]!