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LIVINGSTONE, David : Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa. With Portrait and Full-Page Illustrations

nd [c1900]

Ward, Lock & Co., London. circa 1900. Red cloth, gilt type and period decoration to spine and upper board. 617 pages. Index. Cloth sl. rubbed and marked with sl. crumpling to spine ends. Inner hinge visible, one photographic plate detached but present.

Livingstone, David : MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast: Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean

John Murray, London, 1857

Hinges professionally repaired. ; Livingstone's travel descriptions is the primary work of Africana. Original brown boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt spine lettering. Numerous b&w illustrations and fold out color illustration in front (lightly foxed). Steel engraved tissue guarded frontispiece with a reproduction of Livingsone's signature. ; 8vo; 687, 8 pages, Very Good

First Edition

LIVINGSTONE, David : Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi,....

John Murray, London, 1857

The rare issue with three pp.8. Folding wood-engraved frontis. A fine copy in sontemprary full vellum, gilt ruled panels to spine alternating elaborate fleurons and titles, the boards woth a rich elaborate gilt border frame, the central blank panels having a lyre-fleuron in each corner, richly gilt dentelles, royal blue moire silk endpapers, all edges gilt.

First Edition

LIVINGSTONE, David : Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: including a Sketch of sixteen Year's Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the

John Murray, London, 1857

A very good copy of the first state (With Tinted lithograph as folding frontispiece) in contemporary full brown calf, lacking title label on spine, hinges and extremities rubbed, the text block clean and tight.

First Edition

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