Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841?1904) In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1890. 2 volumes, 8vo. Steel?engraved portrait frontispieces, numerous plates and wood?engravings in text, 3 large folding maps in rear endpaper pockets. Original publisher?s green pictorial cloth gilt with inset silhouette of Africa, brown coated endpapers (light edge wear at extremities, else fine). Provenance: contemporary bookseller?s ticket at rear in Vol. I. FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION, of Stanley?s account of one of his most famous expeditions to rescue Emin Pasha.