The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo. Based on the Observations Made and Material Collected Curing the Harvard African Expedition 1926-1927 [Inscribed Presentation Copy]

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper of first volume: "Mr. Malcolm B. Stone / with much appreciation of his interest in the work in tropical medicine / from Richard P. Strong," dated in year of publication. First printings. Two large octavo volumes (27cm); publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; xxvi,[1]-568; ix,569-1064pp; illus. Mild lean to text block of second volume, else a tight, Near Fine set, lacking the dustwrappers. A major work in the history of public medicine. Strong (1872-1948) was the first professor of Tropical Medicine at Harvard, and the foremost American authority on the subject. This important two-year expedition to Liberia and the Congo, led by Strong in the company of seven fellow Harvard scientists, was the first full-scale attempt to document the etiology of a variety of tropical diseases as well as documenting existing sanitary conditions in Liberia and colonial West Africa. The mission also collected a wealth of zoological and anthropological data that would inform various fields of Africa Studies for decades.