Henry M. Stanley. THE CONGO AND THE FOUNDING OF ITS FREE STATE: A STORY OF WORK AND EXPLORATION. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 2 volumes. First American edition. Hardcover with green cloth illustrated boards and gilt lettering. 8vo; xxvii, 528pp.; x, 483pp. with index, 12 pp. of advertisements. Both with frontispiece, large folded map in rear pocket, and numerous full-page and smaller illustrations.

Each 6 1/4 x 9 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Edgewear and marks to boards, spines browned with lettering lightly faded but still clear, mildly cocked; loss, marks, and ownership stamps to endpapers with Vol. I missing a free endpaper, some cracking to hinges, pages toned as expected with minimal scattered foxing, otherwise clean; maps with usual tears at folds; overall a good set.