May 11 Rare Autograph & Book Auction
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Nice signature matted with pape photo. Welsh-born author, explorer, and special correspondent for the New York Herald (1841–1904). He entered the annals of popular quotation with his famous inquiry, ‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?,’ upon finding David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary and fellow explorer who had become lost in the wilds of Zanzibar.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB ( 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of the Belgians which enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.
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