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Coomassie and Magdala: by Henry Morton STANLEY

Creator: Morton STANLEY
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

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STANLEY, Henry Morton.

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Coomassie and Magdala:
The story of two British campaigns in Africa.

Stock Code 112047
London, Marston Low, Sampson, Low & Searle, 1874

Current price$1,905.00
Stanley's lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874. It also details the British Campaign in Abyssinia. Lord Wolesley was struck by Stanley's courage and considered him 'amongst the bravest of my brave comrades'.

First edition, 8vo, xiv, 510 pp., 17 full-page wood-engraved plates including 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 12 illustrations in text, original green pictorial cloth gilt, a very good copy.

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Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	19th Century
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern
Dealer Reference #:	112047
Incollect Reference #:	718639

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