Description

First Edition in separate form. With numerous illustrations from drawings by Melton Prior (special artist in Ashantee of the illustrated London news) and other artists, and a map. Small 8vo, original maroon textured cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with triple blind rules on the covers. vii, map, 212 pp. A very attractive copy, with only a touch of mellowing to the spine panel. Internally bright and clean, with occasional partial stamping to four of the page edges.

Edizione: a very scarce title a very scarce title in the stanley oeuvre. marvelous illustrations throughout with vivid scenes of native life, costume, landscape, and culture. <br> coomassie and magdala is the story of the great british campaigns in east and west africa. here coomassie is published for the first time in one volume of its own, a complete account of the british campaign with some superb illustrations. stanley wrote his description while a special correspondent of the new york herald.<br> “coomassie was a town insulated by a deadly swamp. a thick jungly forest - so dense that the sun seldom pierced the foliage; so sickly that the strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished - surrounded it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east, as many more west, and 100 miles north. through this forest and swamp, unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty landscape, the british army had to march.” henry stanley, from his preface.