Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition

Published by John C. Nimmo, London, 1890. 17+378+2 pages, 33 portraits & illustrations, folding map. 1st edition. Near fine illustrated brown cloth gilt covers. Gilt ferry boat design to front board. Internally fine - not read. Paper uncut in parts. Some foxing the page edges and to the folding map. Excellent copy.

First edition of this account of the attempt to rescue Emin Pasha, after destruction of General Gordon and his army at Khartoum in 1885. Actually, the relief army organized and influenced by the famed explorer missed the mark, and had to be rescued itself by the Emin Pasha. In 1892, Emin Pasha was eventually killed by slave traders, which served to fuel the sales of Stanley's memoir, In Darkest Africa.