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First edition of Stanley's lively account of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874.
First edition of Stanley's lively account of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874.
First edition of Stanley's lively account of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874.
First edition of Stanley's lively account of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874.

STANLEY, Henry Morton.

Coomassie and Magdala: The story of two British campaigns in Africa.

London, Marston Low, Sampson, Low & Searle, 1874.

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

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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 near-fine copy; xiv, 510 pp.

Stock code 112047

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First edition of Stanley's lively account of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874.

Coomassie and Magdala:

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

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