Coomassie and Magdala:

£1,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Scarce to find such a nice copy in the original cloth. Stanley's lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874. It also details the British Campaign in Abyssinia. Lord Wolesley was struck by Stanley's courage and considered him 'amongst the bravest of my brave comrades'. First edition; 8vo (22.5 x 15.5 cm); 17 full-page wood-engraved plates including 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 12 illustrations in text; original green pictorial cloth gilt, a very good copy; xiv, 510 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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