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LIVINGSTONE, DAVID
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description
- Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857.
- cloth, ink
8vo (221 x 145 mm). Folding frontispiece, 24 plates, 3 folding maps (one housed in rear end-paper pocket), and numerous wood-engravings in text. Publisher's cloth. Some wear to head and foot of spine, hinges cracked.
Provenance
Mr. White (presentation inscription) — James Davison (ownership inscriptions)
Literature
Abbey, Travel I, 347; Czech (Africa) Mendelssohn I, p. 908; PMM 341
Catalogue Note
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by livingstone on front fly-leaf ("Mr. White | with | the best wishes of | David Livingstone | 1st Dec 1857.") The account of Livingstone's three great expeditions in Africa. "The Geographical results of his journeys were of supreme importance, and made it possible to fill in great stretches of the maps of Central Africa, which hitherto had been blank" (PMM).