xxxvi, 268pp, black and white photographic frontispiece, 4 maps (2 folding). Signed and inscribed by author on free endpaper. Cyan cloth-covered boards, red titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine ends, lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Free endpapers starting to fox and tan. Otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded and foxing, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Preface by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes.Â
Leopard II (1835 – 1909), the second King of the sate of Belgium also established the Congo Free State, of which he was the sole owner.Â
