Missionary Travels and Researches In South Africa

John Murray, London, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". x + 688pp + 8 ads. Hinges cracking. Chips to spine ends with some loss to top. Endpapers browned slightly, text block clean. Edges browned. Occasional creasing to page corners. Corners bumped. All plates present except for folding map in pouch at… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, Murray, 1857. . First edition. 8vo., ix, 687pp., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end), 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text, original brown blindstamped cloth gilt, rear inner hinge repaired, front inner hinge just starting but firm, a very good bright copy. "Perhaps the most famous… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, John Murray, 1857.Contempoary calf, spine gilt (sl. rubbed; one hinge sl. dam. but holding). With folding wood-engraved frontispiece depicting the Victoria Falls by Whymper, engraved portrait (margins foxed), a folding cross section, 2 folding maps by John Arrowsmith and 42 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. X,687pp.This first edition appeared in various issues the same year. - An account of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1857. Mild stains to frontispiece (perhaps due to paper type); otherwise a really fine copy.. Large octavo, engraved portrait and 23 plates (including folding frontispiece view), two folding maps by Arrowsmith at the end of the book, and numerous wood engraved illustrations through the text; in a fine contemporary binding of half black morocco and… Saber más sobre este artículo

John Murray : London, 1857 First edition, ix + 687 pp, rare state with three page eights. In the first two issues, the frontispiece and two other plates are tinted lithographs- Livingstone was dissatisfied and had them re-engraved on wood for the rest of the edition in a third state. Folding frontispiece, engraved portrait by William Holl after Henry Phillips,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murrary, 1857. First edition, Bradlow's Variant No. 2. Folding engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps (one in rear pocket), 23 plates, 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. [x], 688, [8 ads (dated November 1, 1857] pp. 8vo. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt, label of binder Edmonds & Remnant on back pastedown. Hinges cracked. First… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, Murray, 1857. . First edition. 8vo., ix, 687pp., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end), 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text, light foxing to plates, contemporary calf gilt, covers ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, rebacked preserving spine, an attractive example. … Saber más sobre este artículo

IX, [1], 687, [1], 8 pp.First edition of the famous account of the first mission and expedition through southern Africa undertaken by the Scottish physician, missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873). The account narrates chronologically his travels and experiences, including numerous descriptions of African tribes and chiefs, deserts, rivers, lakes, forests, cities, diseases, animals, trees, etc. Livingstone arrived in… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray,, 1857. It surpasses in interest the most exciting narratives of modern travel and adventure First edition. Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1857. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. ix, 687. Thick 8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbleds boards. With folding lithographed frontispiece of Victoria Falls (signed in the plate by Whymper), a steel engraving of the author facing page 1, (untinted) full-page engravings and line drawings in the text, and two folding maps tabbed-in at the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray,, 1857. It surpasses in interest the most exciting narratives of modern travel and adventure First edition. Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1858. First American Edition. Full leather. Near fine. First American edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone, handsomely bound in a full leather binding.. Thick octavo, xxiv, [1]-732pp, [4pp ads]. Full brown morocco, double gilt-ruled border. Title in gilt on red morocco label affixed to spine, five… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-687, [1] pp. Bound without the publisher's advertisements. Half contemporary green calf over textured cloth boards, spine in six compartments with a brown morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a fold-out chromolithograph frontispiece, with… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1857. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Various. A rebound first edition copy of David Livingstone's travelogue through South Africa, with a folding frontispiece, illustrations, and a folding map. First edition, rebound in blue cloth. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece, twenty-four black-and-white plates, one folding plate, in-text illustrations, and a folding map of… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. First American edition. Hardcover. Good condition. First American Edition of one of the most important nineteenth century accounts of African exploration with 2 Arrowsmith maps in very good condition. Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition, the Trans-Africa… Saber más sobre este artículo

25th edition. Ex-library bookplate on front pastedown, wear spot on rear pastedown, likely from library card pocket. Book is in Fair condition, with splitting hinges and weak joints. Cover is worn, corners bumped and rubbed, areas on spine are missing (see photos), discoloration on cover. Pages are age-tanned, with occasional light foxing, but otherwise clean and intact. Map in rear of… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858, 1858. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American Edition. 8vo. xxiv, 732 pp., w/ fold-out chart and two fold-out maps at rear, (4). b/w illustrations throughout. Brown cloth boards decorated in blind. Fold-out map of Africa at rear torn down the middle, light scattered foxing to inside pages, tearing to cloth at board… Saber más sobre este artículo

1857 AFRICA 1st ed David Livingstone Missionary Travels Illustrated Map Angola "If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all." ― David Livingstone An incredibly rare first edition of David Livingstone's "Missionary Travels." In this book Livingstone describes… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray,, 1857. The foundation of the Livingstone legend First edition, probably from the library of the Irish explorer John King (1838-1872), with a gift inscription on the front flyleaf, "To John King with the sincere respects & best wishes of a New Zealand friend. Christmas 1861", from an unknown New Zealand giver. King was a member of… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing (first published 1858). Large 8vo, publisher's dark sea-blue cloth gilt, very good crisp copy with minor wear and soil. 755 pp, ads, numerous illustrations and plates, two folding maps at rear and folding sectional plate at p. 610.