NMLP P-035971 · True-first precedence · 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 London edition (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) is the true first, preceding the Harper & Brothers edition published in New York; the Harper edition is bound in pictorial green cloth rather than brown and carries a different plate count.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-035971 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-035971, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).