Southern Africa
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First edition. 8vo., xliiii, 383pp., portrait frontispiece, four folding maps, 6 chromolithograph plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text, natural history appendix with ten plates (9 hand-coloured) after Keulemanns (2) and others, original grey pictorial cloth gilt, neatly rebacked preserving spine, a very good copy.
£1,650 -
First edition. Two volumes, 8vo., xxx, 377; vii, 388 pp., 32 pages ads at end vol. i, dated January 1881, 9 maps (including large folding map in pocket), 3 facsimiles, and 131 wood-engravings, some full-page, contemporary calf gilt by Relfe Brothers, dark morocco labels, gilt school stamp to upper covers, a very good set.
£950 -
First English edition. 8vo., xv, 462 pp., frontispiece, 4 chromolithograph plates, 11 wood-engraved plates, folding map, near contemporary burgundy half calf, morocco label, lightly rubbed, light soiling to half-title, a very good copy.
£1,250 -
First editions, 5 vols including Blaikie's Life, 8vo, uniform half calf gilt by Henry Young of Liverpool, tan and black labels, a fine set. 'Missionary Travels' - folding tinted lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, engraved portrait, folding table, 2 folding engraved maps at end with routes supplied in red, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 1857; 'Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi...', folding wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, illustrations, folding engraved map with route in red, 1858; 'The Last Journals...' 2 vols, wood-engraved portrait, 20 plates, mostly wood-engraved, one double-page, folding map with routes in red (second larger map loose in pocket at end of Blaikie's Life, short tear to fold), illustrations, 1874; BLAIKIE (W.G.) 'The Personal Life of David Livingstone', engraved portrait, folding hand-coloured map, with map from Last Journals loose in pocket at end, 1880, together 4 works in 5, first editions, with loosely-inserted advertisement for Lett's Extract Book inscribed in ink at head 'Presented to Dr. Livingstone with the Publisher's best wishes'.
£5,000 -
First edition. 8vo. xii, 493 pp., 2 pages of ads at end, 2 maps, 8 plates, illustrations in text, original green blindstamped cloth gilt, gilt roundel to upper cover, upper inner hinge split, a very good copy.
£400 -
First edition, 8vo, xxvi, 293 pp., frontispiece portrait, additional wood-engraved title, coloured folding map, wood-engravings in text, original red blind-stamped cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignettes to upper cover and spine, a fine copy.
£850 -
First edition. Small folio, illustrations, original cloth, dust-wrapper, minor wear but internally fine.
£32 -
First edition. 8vo, xxvi, 293 pp., frontispiece portrait, additional wood-engraved title, coloured folding map, wood-engravings in text, original red blind-stamped cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignettes to upper cover and spine, a fine copy.
£750 -
First edition. 8vo., iv, 412 pp., hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 25 lithographed plates (1 hand-coloured), 2 folding maps, some light spotting and toning, modern blue half morocco gilt, a very good copy.
£400 -
First edition. 8vo., xii, 297 pp., 3 pages of ads at end, frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, original light blue cloth gilt, spine faded, an excellent copy.
£180