COOMASSIE: The Story of The Campaign In Africa 1878-4

1 volume. First edition 1896. A very scarce copy.

Illustrations from drawings by Melton Prior

special artist in Ashantee of the illustrated London News

Publishers burgundy cloth cover with blind-stamped borders.

Gilt title to spine.

6 full-page plates.

11 in-text illustrations.

1 full-page map.

Faint library stamps.

Some notations on front endpapers.

COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA is the story

of the great British campaigns in East and West Africa.

Here COOMASSIE is published for the first time in one volume

of its own, a complete account of the British Campaign with

some superb illustrations. Stanley wrote his description while

a Special Correspondent of the New York Herald.

"Coomassie was a town insulated by a deadly swamp. A thick jungly

forest - so dense that the sun seldom pierced the foliage;  so sickly

that the strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished  - surrounded

it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east, as many

more west, and 100 miles north. Through this forest and swamp,

unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty landscape, the

British army had to march." [Henry Stanley, from his preface]. 

Recorded shipping weight 1000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.