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187461959London: John Murray 1874. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Two volumes in purple cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine; brown coated endpapers; xvi3606pp;viii34620pp; 6pp publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. I 20pp catalogue in vol. II; frontispieces 3 lithographic facsimiles of leaves from Livingstone's journal 17 full-page wood-engraved plates 24 in-text wood engravings color folding map in vol. II large color folding map in pocket at rear of vol. I. Ex-library with marks of spine labels circulation slips to rear endpapers and perforated stamps to title pages. Lightly rubbed spines sunned but boards bright vol. I hinges cracked one leaf of ads in vol. II detached: Good or better. <br /> <br /> Famed explorer David Livingstone 1813-1873 embarked on his final African expedition in 1866 in an attempt to suppress the local slave trade and trace the source of the White Nile. During this journey he lost contact with Britain for six years leading to Henry Stanley's mission to locate him and their famous encounter at Lake Tanganyika in 1871. Livingstone died of malaria and dysentry at Chitambo in modern Zambia in 1873. After his death his popularity in Britain surged. HOWGEGO L36. MENDELSSOHN I p.912-3. John Murray unknown
1959971959 Paris Librairie de L Hachette et Cie 1959 Un foty volume grand in°8 plein maroquin rouge dos à nerfs, titres et décors dorés sur le dos et les plats. 759 pp Avec 2 gravures dépliantes, 24 gravures hors-texte et 2 cartes dépliantes in-fine. Première édition française Petite déchirure sur les cartes sans manque de papier. Bords des cartes usés
37472San Francisco: Arion Press 2007. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 297 of 300 numbered copies of this deluxe edition of Eliot's seminal poem. There were also 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. This is the 79th publication from the acclaimed Arion Press. In the prospectus the book is described as the first illustrated edition of Thomas Stearns Eliot's most important work. This is a complex and elegant presentation of Eliot's literary masterpiece that he wrote in the aftermath of the carnage and violence of the first world war and the devastation of a global pandemic. The book is in sections described by the publisher as partitions. There first is an essay on the poem by noted poetry scholar Helen Vendler. The poem is interspersed with in detail and entire the painting "If Not Not" by R.B. Kitaj. Kitaj 1932 - 2007 was an American artist who spent much of his life in England. He had a significant influence on British pop art with his figurative paintings featuring areas of bright color economic use of line and overlapping planes which made them resemble collages but eschewing most abstraction and modernism. Allusions to political history art literature and Jewish identity often recur in his work mixed together on one canvas to produce a collage effect. Wikipedia In an essay by Marco Livingstone describing the poem written by Kitaj in 1975-76 as an ambitious mysterious and haunting work that occupies a key position in his history as The Waste Land does in Eliot's. Kitaj in fact took inspiration from Eliot's poem and stated that his picture bears a certain allegiance to it.<br /> <br /> The Waste Land was edited designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem at his Arion Press. The types are handset 18 point Bauer Bodoni for the poem with larger sizes for display and 12 point Bodoni Book for subsidiary text. Printed on Somerset Book for the text with Mohawk Superfine for the pictorial pages printed by color offset lithography. Bound in gray cloth with the title in brown on the front cover and the title author and artist on the spine. The binding and the text and pictorial pages are all in fine condition. Accompanied by the prospectus. Measures 12 x 12.5 inches. 68 pages. PRI/092024. Arion Press hardcover
1885FD16-142London, Christian Knowledge Society, 1885. original cloth binding?, 8?, xii. 396 pages, a good copy 1st Edition 1st Printing
6334The Hague, Dr. W. Jung B.V., 1976. In-8, reliure toilée, photographies, figures et plans, jaquette.
201209151Monaco, Editons du rocher, 1985 ; in-8, 207 pp., br.
201209149Monaco, Editons du rocher, 1990 ; in-8, 234 pp., br.
201209152Monaco, Editons du rocher, 1987 ; in-8, 236 pp., br.
201314463Monaco, Editons du rocher, 1989 ; in-8, 223 pp., br.
199740595New York: Bulfinch / Little Brown 1997. First Edition. Quarto 29cm. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 224pp; illus. Tight Near Fine copy in crisp unclipped dustwrapper with a trace of rubbing to extremities still easily Near Fine. Bulfinch / Little, Brown unknown
190364182Chicago IL: Madison Book Co. 1903. 8vo. 249 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 7 photo plates. Red & black pictorial publisher’s cloth wonderful Art Nouveau cover art by Gene Carr initials partially obscured lettering & decoration in white & black front cover & spine red dyed fore-edges slight shelfwear very slight rubbing still VG bright copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock and fundraiser for Theodore Roosevelt memorial laid-in. First edition of this remarkably uncommon Progressive Era manual on etiquette issued during President Theodore Roosevelt’s first term with Edith Kermit Roosevelt 1861-1948 as frontispiece and also featuring interior shots of the Roosevelt White House entertaining areas and photos of Caroline Scott Harrison who died while First Lady and Ida Saxton McKinley first lady until death of President McKinley in 1901. This work touches on different rules of New York Philadelphia and Boston Society and how they were negotiated at the White House while also included sections on debutantes chaperons luncheons funerals mourning customs and more. Madison Book Co., hardcover
187761960London: John Murray 1877. Reprint. Octavo 23cm. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind; brown endpapers; xvi60820pp; 20-page publisher's catalogue at rear; folding frontispiece folding map at rear with routes traced in red black and white illustrations. Rubbed lightly sunned at spine front hinge cracked through: Good only. <br /> <br /> An account of the Livingstone brothers' exploration of the Zambesi river based heavily on Charles' journals. The expedition was highly expensive resulted in multiple deaths yielded relatively little new geographical or scientific information and David Livingstone's "plans to check the slave trade had come to nothing" ODNB. Livingstone's activism after his journey did result in the creation of the UMCA. <br /> <br /> Despite the 1865 date on the title page this copy is clearly a much later issue from the original publisher as demonstrated by the 1877 publisher's catalogue and the presence of blind- rather than gilt stamping on the front board first edition copies were stamped in gilt. HOWGEGO IV L34. MENDELSSOHN p.915-6. John Murray unknown
1002X0ZCW52Hardcover. George A. Lawrence. Good. unknown
96778London By arrangement from the British Banner Routledge 1857. . First edition. 16mo 16.2 x 10 cm. 64 pp. wood-engraved folding map by E. Whymper; original red printed pictorial wrappers some small loss to spine else a very good copy.<br /> Rare. The first appearance in book form of any account of Livingstone's travels in Africa the preface is dated January 1857 and his Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa did not appear until November of that year.<br /><br />The preface states that 'in giving to the world the first authentic narrative of the important explorations of the Rev. Dr. Livingstone the publishers have to acknowledge their obligations to the spirited conductors of the British Banner in whose columns in detached portions this remarkable history first appeared. The interest awakened by the return of the Missionary wanderer to his native land after an absence of fifteen years is scarcely second to the anxiety manifested to obtain information as to the actual discoveries which have been made.' It claims the map was revised by Livingstone himself despite the Kalahari being described as the Lahari and the explorer's name is spelt incorrectly throughout.<br /> Mendelssohn 1957 I p.908 and Mendelssohn 1979 III p.430. London, By arrangement from the British Banner, Routledge, 1857. unknown
40236discussing the details of a lease on some farmland he says "Mr Spencer says there was no mention in Messrs Cambbell Martin & Boswell's Letter.of the 'very extraordinary clause' in Mr Tusk's lease and so far as he knows there was no mention made of the clause in the papers & extracts which accompanied that letter. In any case he says the lease was arranged before. Mr Tusk has paid his Rent but my Father thinks he should be told to cultivate his farm according to his lease as of course it makes a great difference to the shootings as to Partridges etc." 2 sides 8vo. Rock Park Castle Douglas 7th December Mary Livingstone 1821-1862 was the wife of David Livingstone. Her father Robert Moffat was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary who worked among the Bechuana people at Kuruman. He had 10 children so this letter must have been written by one of Mary's brothers. Presumably this refers to some land left by Livingstone and administered by the family. unknown
1868A50548London: Printed for Private Distribution Only 1868. iii 282 title vignette. . HB. 8vo finely bound in cont. full morocco double-ruled blind-stamped border to both boards gt vignette to front board raised bands to spine aeg gilt decorative roll to edges of boards and gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers. A little light scuffing rubbed to extremities headcap chipped. Title page clipped 2.5cm from top blank margin to remove previous owner's name. First edition. Privately published and rare. Provides an account of British species arranged alphabetically by common name. 'The Compiler of the following work having devoted a considerable portion of his leisure hours to the study of Ornithology has collected a variety of facts relating to several interesting specimens of the feathered tribe the publication of which he trusts may be useful and entertaining to those who like himself take pleasure in this branch of natural history. The present collection lays no claim to originality but the information it contains is derived from a variety of sources not always perhaps accessible to the majority of readers .' - PrefaceFreeman 2298; Mullens & Swann p. 21. Printed for Private Distribution Only hardcover
104974London Houlston & Wright n.d. circa 1869-1872. . First edition; 8vo 19.5 x 13.5 cm; 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; xxvi 293 pp.<br /> The scarce first edition. Although undated the publisher was only active for three years and subsequent editions were published by Blackwood. A contemporary account showing the high esteem in which Dr. Livingstone was held.<br /> Mendelssohn I. p15. London, Houlston & Wright, n.d. circa 1869-1872. hardcover
188034762London: Dean & Son Limited ca. 1880. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page plates from cuts on wood. 8vo publisher's original Victorian red cloth beveled edges pictorially decorated and lettered in black and green on the upper cover the spine decorated in black with author and title on two gilt background labels. xxii 335 1 ads. pp. A very good copy bright and clean with light evidence of age. FIRST EDITION. The quest to recover David Livingstone is one of the most famous travel adventures and manhunts in history. By 1870 Livingstone had been missing for long enough that it was generally accepted that he had died somewhere in Central Africa. However James Gordon Bennett proprietor of the “New York Herald†was convinced that Livingstone was still alive and dispatched a richly laden H.M. Stanley to find him. Stanley embarked on his quest on March 12 1871 and after overcoming “innumerable difficulties†he found a discouraged and disheartened Livingstone at Ujiji on November 10. Stanley then uttered the oft-quoted line “Dr. Livingstone I presume†This it is said helped to renew the good doctor’s hope. The two soon set off on an exploration of the north end of Lake Tanganyika and eventually discovered that the Rusizi runs into it and not out of it. Stanley left Livingstone well-provisioned and spiritually inspired on March 15 1872 and came back to England and shortly published this “picturesque narrative†of his experiences helping to secure his reputation as a “leader of men and an explorer of great promise.†<br> Stanley’s travels on this first expedition not only made his literary reputation but also laid the geographical groundwork for his subsequent journey narrated in “Through the Dark Continent†and gave him the tremendous practical experience in African travel that made his third expedition to rescue Emin Pasha narrated in “In Darkest Africa†such a success. Dean & Son, Limited hardcover
188073006AB1880. New and Enlarged Edition. London Dean & Son No date c.1880. 13 cm x 18.5 cm. 332 Pages with several illustrations Original clothbound hardcover with embossed gilt decorations and gilt edges. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Covers detached from binding. hardcover
25925showing him head and shoulders in an oval in profile 4" x 2½" no place no date unknown
187540945<p><strong>1875 AFRICA David Livingstone 1ed Last Journals Voyages African Exploration MAP</strong></p><p><em>"I will go anywhere provided it be forward." </em></p><p><em>― </em>David Livingstone</p><p>David Livingstone was a Scottish medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in Africa. In this book Livingstone describes his travel and work as a missionary to the indigenous people in Central and South Africa. Through the mid-19th-century South Africa was completely unknown to Europeans so Livingstone's mission brought light to more than just spreading the gospel. The work deals with customs languages animal and plant biology geology topography and mineralogy which he kept until his death.</p><p>This first American edition of Livingstone's "<em>Last Journals</em>" is illustrated with 20 full-page engravings 25 in-text illustrations and an <strong><u>enormous 72cm x 82cm folding map of Central Africa</u></strong>!</p><p>Item number: #40945</p><p>Price: $550</p><p>LIVINGSTONE David; WALLER Horace</p><p><strong><em>The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa. From Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Five to His Death. Continued by a Narrative of His Last Moments and Sufferings Obtained from His Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi with Portrait Maps and Illustrations.</em></strong></p><p>New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers 1875. First American edition.</p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->2 541 1 4</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->48 illustrations</p><p><!--endif-->Frontispiece engraving</p><p><!--endif-->20 woodcut plates</p><p><!--endif-->25 in-text woodcuts</p><p><!--endif-->Double-page map</p><p><!--endif--><strong>Large folding map 29in x 32.75in</strong></p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Bookplate – Elijah T. Fletcher</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Red cloth</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~ 9.5in X 6in 23.5cm x 15cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>40945</p><p>Photos available upon request.</p> Harper and Brothers, Publishers hardcover
1875151484London and Newcastle: The Tyne Publishing Company Limited c. 1875. First edition of this magnificently illustrated and bound compendium of David Livingstone’s life and explorations. Folio bound in full black morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands gilt titles and elaborate pictorial gilt decorations to the front and rear panels engraved brass-mounted edges and double clasps to the front and rear panels chromolithographic vignette title page illustrated with 19 tinted lithograph plates including frontispiece of the meeting of Stanley and Livingstone map of Central and South Africa. Tyne Publishing Company issue issued from the same stereotype plates as the Adam & Co. and John G. Murdoch editions and bound uniformly. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Scottish physician Congregationalist and pioneer Christian missionary and explorer of Africa David Livingstone was one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa. At the same time his missionary travels "disappearance" and eventual death in Africa†‌led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa." The Tyne Publishing Company, Limited hardcover
188044505London:: Walter Scott n.d. ca. 1880. publisher's decorated red cloth a.e.g. 1892 Sunday School prize label on pastedown recipient's name scratched out. Some light use to cloth; very attractive. Folio. Color frontispiece and added color lithographed title page and plates. . Walter Scott, hardcover
22735Paris, Club des Libraires de France, 1959. In-8°, 478p. Reliure pleine toile d'éditeur ornée de 2 vignettes contrecollées.
1999LFA-126739955N° 163 (Février 1999): 66 pages, format 220 x 295 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, bon état
