STANLEY (Henri Morton). À travers le continent mystérieux, découverte des sources méridionales du Nil, circumnavigation du Lac Victoria et du lac Tanganika, descente du fleuve Livingstone du Congo jusqu'à l'Atlantique. Paris, Hachette, 1879. 2 large volumes in-8, first edition of the French translation illustrated with 2 frontispiece portraits, 9 colored maps including 2 large folded and canvas-backed at the end of each volume, and 150 in-text and out-of-text engravings. Bound in green half-chagrin, spine with 4 raised bands, signed Lamé. (spine faded, some foxing). Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio