- Lot 341

Henry M. STANLEY - Five years in the Congo 1879-1884. Travels - Explorations - Foundation of the Congo Free State. Translated from the English by Gérard Harry. Illustrated with 100 woodcuts and 4 colored maps including a wall map by H. M. Stanley. Brussels, Institut national de Géographie, s.d. [1885?]. Large in-8, 290 x 210 mm, red half-chagrin with corners, gilt-stamped boards, five-ribbed flowered spine extending cold on the boards, gilt title, gilt head, cover preserved, in a slipcase (Doomst) (spine uniformly faded, jaws rubbed, corners dull, slipcase torn). xviii, 696 pp. Figures in the text and on full page. Copy complete with the large wall map (here cloth-backed) which is often missing (2 missing along the middle fold). Some foxing passim.