LIVINGSTONE'S 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 t
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J. W. Bradley, Philadelphia: 1859., 1859 440p. + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page and text engravings. Book label of Ira Lowery. Lacks first and last fly leaves. 8vo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, embossed in blind. Gilt lettered spine. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Extremities worn with slight loss. Hardbound. AFRICA2 BOX 6. Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- LIVINGSTONE'S 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 t
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- J. W. Bradley, Philadelphia: 1859.
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- AFRICA; DAVID LIVINGSTONE; AFRICAN HISTORY; BLACK STUDIES; TRAVEL; SOUTH JO URNEY; 1859; CULTURE; GAME; HUNTING; VICTORIAN; ILLUSTRATIONS
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