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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, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean.

Stock Code
96030
London:John Murray, 1857
£1,250

The book covers the first of Livingstone's three major expeditions 'in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east … During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before' (PMM).

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Description

First edition, 8vo, Original terracotta sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers. Folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, and 22 other plates including lithograph opposite page 225, illustrations to the text, 3 folding maps, one of them in pocket at end. A fine copy.

Bibliography

Abbey (Travel), 347; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p.908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.

Stock ID:96030

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