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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa.

Book Description

First edition. Folding wood-eng. frontispiece, steel- engraved portrait of the author, numerous full page wood-engraved plates and illustrations to text, one folding geological section, two folding maps including one in pocket at rear.

Dealer Notes

Livingstone’s classic account of his travels alerted Victorian England to the extent of the slave trade in Central and Eastern Africa.

Author Livingstone, David.

Date 1857

Binding Original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt

Publisher London: John Murray

Condition Minor dust-soiling, discolouration to endpapers, else very good in the original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt, unevenly discoloured, expertly restored to head and tail of spine.

Pages 8vo. pp. x, 687, 8 (ads., dated November 1, 1857).

Price: £275.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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