NMLP P-035968 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
Through the Dark Continent: or, The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean
Henry M. Stanley · Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington (London) · 1878
The true first edition, printed by William Clowes and Sons, collates in two octavo volumes: volume I xiv, [1], 522 pages, volume II ix, 566 pages, bound in original brown pictorial cloth, the front boards decorated in black with African landscape scenes and centered with a gilt map of Africa crossed by the Livingstone River and framed by Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035968 for "Through the Dark Continent: or, The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean" by Henry M. Stanley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035968, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).