88. [Stanley, Henry Morton.] Royal Geographical Society. Stanley Reception Meeting Albert Hall, May, 5th, 1890. Sketch Map of the Route of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition from the Mouth of the Aruwimi to Bagamoyo. London: Edward Stanford, 1890. £175 A printed partly coloured map, approx. 27 x 19 cm., folding as issued into self-wrappers with title printed to one panel of verso, minor soiling else in very good condition. The official reception to Stanley on his return from the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha in Equatoria was hosted by the Royal Geographical Society at the Albert Hall. For the occasion, the present map was printed and handed out to members of the audience. The expedition travelled up the Congo river and followed the Aruwimi river to the Albert Nyanza, where Stanley met Emin. The map shows Stanley’s route from the Upper Congo, via the lakes, to the east coast. Copies of the map are uncommon.
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89. Stuhlmann, Franz. Mit Emin Pacha ins Herz Afrika. Ein Reisebericht mit Beiträgen von Dr. Emin Pascha, in seinem Auftrage geschildert. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1894. £1,500 First edition. 4to. 2 parts in one. pp. [i], xxii, [1, part title], 901; 32 plates inc. one folding and one coloured, illusts. to text, two folding maps in pocket at rear; minor occasional foxing, else near-fine in the original decorated cloth, t.e.g., in the original d.-w. With loosely inserted an accompanying letter from Emin to Frère Oscar, dated Bukoba, Victoria Nyassa, 1 Februar 1891. Stuhlmann (1863-1928) was a German naturalist who in 1888 arrived in East Africa to commence a collecting expedition on behalf of the Berlin Royal Academy of Science. In 1890 he joined Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer) on an expedition to secure territory between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert for the German government. The large expedition left Bagamoyo and reached Bukoba on the western shore of Lake Victoria (Victoria Nyassa), but in July they received news of the Heligoland Treaty, by which Germany ceded Uganda to Britain, thus rendering futile their expedition. The two men received letters calling for their return, but both ignored them, and continued their explorations to Lakes Albert and Edward, and the Ruwenzori range (where Stuhlmann made an ascent to 4036 m). An outbreak of smallpox among the party resulted in Stuhlmann returning to Bukoba with the healthy men, while Emin continued on towards Stanley Falls and the Congo. Emin’s party were attacked and killed by Arab traders, and Stuhlmann eventually returned to Bagamoyo in July 1892. Stuhlmann’s Mit Emin Pascha - “acclaimed by some to be the finest scientific work on Africa ever published” (Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration IV.S81) - contains an overview of the expedition, and much information on the peoples, fauna, and geology of the areas through which they passed. An exceptional copy with the extremely rare original dust-wrapper, this also contains an original letter by Emin sent from the expedition’s base at Bukoba.