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1891233015London : Religious Tract Society 1891. 1st edition. Hardcover. Scattered minor marginal foxing. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth over beveled boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Subjects; Geography - Syria Lebanon Israel Jordan. Copiously illustrated; tissue-guarded frontis. London : Religious Tract Society hardcover
188033051London: John Murray 1880. Two Volumes with Portrait Maps And Illustrations. Foldout map at rear pcoket of Volume One present. Pocket frayed at lip. Lacking foldout map at end of Volume 2. Gilt at spine olive green cloth boards. Boards show modeate wear. a bit of fraying along top. Hinges tender slightly cracked but holdong nicely. Tops of pages dusted. Very occasional very light foxing. Page 315/316 has bottom 5/8" evenly removed during cutting and binding process not affecting the text. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. John Murray Hardcover
18753147Hartford Conn: Columbian Book Co 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Thick Octavo. Title Cont. A narrative of the life travels adventures experiences and achievements of Dr. David Livingstone including his discovery by Henry M. Stanley and the subsequent wanderings and death of the renowned traveler. Together with a comprehensive history of African explorations the Livingstone relief expeditions and recent events. The whole abounding in picturesque descriptions of the country and people their traits customs and superstitions. Illustrated with over 100 engravings & maps 831pp. 1pp. ad at rear bound in green cloth upper board titled in gilt within decorative blindstamped border pictorial gilt spine; internally clean and fresh. A handsome copy of a very scarce work by the author who wrote Livingstone Lost and Found in 1873 the year of Livingstone's death. A near fine copy. <br/><br/> Columbian Book Co hardcover
1875001523Columbian Book Company Cincinnati OH 1875. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 831 pp. Pages are yellowed but are tight and clean. Spine is cracked but fully intact and tight. Moderate water damage to text covers unaffected. Heavy general shelfwear to cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Exploration; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001523. . Additional shipping charges may apply. Columbian Book Company hardcover
1874mon0001525703Caernarfon 1874T. unknown_binding. Good. . Cloth boards with leather spine and corners. Lavish colour illustrations throughout. Title page portrait detached but with book. Welsh language edition. Undated but with bookplate dated 1882. Caernarfon unknown
1899011704Boston: Brown and Company 1899. First edition 1899. Very well-kept copy of this hard-to-find collection of student poetry most notable by the inclusion of a very early work by noted American poet Wallace Stevens 1879-1955. This copy belonged to R. B. Dixon Professor of Anthropology at Harvard with his name neatly written at the head of the half-title. Maroon cloth lettered and with a pictorial design in gilt top edge gilt other edges uncut frontis illustration 153 pages including index of authors. Very light shelfwear mainly a bit of rubbing to the spine ends spine slightly faded very light surface soil. Good hinges sound text block very clean pages free from other names or markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown and Company Hardcover
183924741839. Tinted lithograph. 220mm by 135mm sheet. From 'Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions Of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales' by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. Published by T and W Boone 1839. unknown
185720960London: John Murray 1857. Hardcover. Good overall. Annual volume of the RGS journal with content including Africa and Vancouver Island. 8vo cxcviii 398pp maps. Folding maps of David Livingstone in Africa Burma Vancouver Island Rewa River exploration in Fiji. Many plates on "strategic Movements between Tegea Caryae and Sparta." Original half brown calf & marbled board front board detached. Library slip on inside cover no other lib marks. Very good condition internally. John Murray hardcover
186115581London: John Murray 1861. First edition. Paperback. Important volume of the RGS journal with much Australian & British Columbian content & many folding maps in original blue paper wrappers. It contains John M'Douall Stuart's account of his last unsuccessful attempts to cross the continent; Stuart attempted 11 times to break through either to the Gulf of Carpentaria or to the Victoria River headwaters' Feeken Feeken and Spate. "The Discovery and Exploration of Australia". Other content includes Franklin in the Arctic Kashmir Peru the Andes. Articles include: M'Clintock Narrative of the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin; 4 articles on British Columbia by Mayne Palmer Begbie & Downie on British Columbia; Purdon On the Trigonometrical Survey of the Valley of Kashmir; Austen Notes on the Valley of Kashmir; Clerk Notes in Persia Khorassan and Afghanistan; John M'Douall Stuart Journal of Australian Exploration: 2nd 3rd & Last Expedition; Randell Voyage up the Darling and Barwon; Wheelwright Proposed Railway Route across the Andes; Spruce On the Mountains of Llanganati; Jameson; Journey from Quito to Cayambe; Markham The Province of Caravaya in Southern Peru. Orig. pale blue printed wrappers spine very lightly tanned with a couple of sml. ruffles front inner hinge strengthened o/w fine unopened condition. 8vo 12pp advertiserclxxxvi 386pp 16pp ads 12 folding partialy color maps and a folding facsimilie document of the Eribus and Terror. UNCUT and UNOPENED. John Murray paperback
18485001112London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1848. Octavo frontispiece 11 lithograph plates and seven maps four folding a very good copy complete with 24 pp. publisher's advertisements neatly recased in the original red cloth spine gilt the cloth in bright condition. <p><p>First edition of Mitchell's account of his last expedition. In late 1845 with Edmund Kennedy as his second-in-command Mitchell set out from Sydney in search of an overland route to the Port Essington settlement. Although he did not find the hoped-for route over the next year he explored a vast area of unknown country in tropical Queensland returning to Sydney in December 1846. As with his earlier expeditions Mitchell showed contempt for official orders preferring instead to follow his instincts. In this instance he seemed more interested in discovering the fabled Kindur River one of his more enduring but erroneous beliefs. To justify his decision he here represented his discovery of the Victoria River which was in fact the Barcoo as the legendary great north-flowing source. Although Mitchell did not succeed in finding a northward route and - if anything - further confused the riddle of the inland rivers upon his return the expedition charted a vast area of previously unknown country without significant mishap or the loss of a single man.</p> <p>The fine tinted lithograph views in the books are all after Mitchell's own drawings. His work as a topographical artist has gained increasing respect in recent years and can be appreciated in the plates prepared for this book. It is characterised by a fine attention to detail and an accomplished use of tone and shading.</p> <p>An attractive copy in its original cloth binding.</p> </p> . Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans unknown
18485000630London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1848. Octavo frontispiece 11 lithograph plates and seven maps four folding; a fine copy unusually clean bound without the advertisements in later half blue morocco gilt top edges gilt. <p><p>An elegantly bound copy of the first edition.</p> <p>In late 1845 with Edmund Kennedy as his second-in-command Mitchell set out from Sydney in search of an overland route to the Port Essington settlement. Although he did not find the hoped-for route over the next year he explored a vast area of unknown country in tropical Queensland returning to Sydney in December 1846. As with his earlier expeditions Mitchell showed contempt for official orders preferring instead to follow his instincts. In this instance he seemed more interested in discovering the fabled Kindur River one of his more enduring but erroneous beliefs. To justify his decision he here represented his discovery of the Victoria River which was in fact the Barcoo as the legendary great north-flowing source. Although Mitchell did not succeed in finding a northward route and - if anything - further confused the riddle of the inland rivers upon his return the expedition charted a vast area of previously unknown country without significant mishap or the loss of a single man.</p> <p>The fine tinted lithograph views in the books are all after Mitchell's own drawings. His work as a topographical artist has gained increasing respect in recent years and can be appreciated in the plates prepared for this book. It is characterised by a fine attention to detail and an accomplished use of tone and shading.</p> </p> . Provenance: G.R. Nicolaus with pictorial bookoplate. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans unknown
184810244London: John Murray 1848<br>. First edition. Frontispiece 10 tinted lithographs & 7 maps 4 folding. Pp. xiv 438 2pp publisher’s advertisements. 8vo. original red cloth blindstamped border gilt vignette to spine. Joints a little worn some rubbing and soiling to cloth.Booksellers label from Melbourne. <br>With a presentation inscription from Mitchell’s sister: ‘From the Author’s sister to Miss Hall with warmest wishes for her welfare’.<br>Between 1831 and 1848 Mitchell made four major expeditions into the Australian interior. Mitchell's final year long expedition sought to solve once and for all the question of the drainage of North-Eastern Australia. He set out in December 1845 with Edmund Kennedy as second in command and proceeded north into tropical Queensland. He had hoped the Barcoo River what he called the Victoria would lead all the way to the Gulf of Carpentaria and thereby provide an overland route between Sydney and Port Essington on the Gulf of Carpentaria. A very good copy with a lovely association.Ferguson 4828 Association copy belonging to the author’s sister and inscribed by her John Murray hardcover
1838173536London: T. & W. Boone 1838. The deep tracks of his boat carriage quickly became their ribbon to follow to the south-west First edition of this illustrated account by the explorer who opened up the lush pastures of western Victoria to colonial settlement. His three daring expeditions added extensively to knowledge of Australia's inland waterways. This copy is from the collection of Jonathan Wantrup a leading bibliographer of Australiana with his book label on the front pastedowns. Appointed deputy surveyor-general of New South Wales in 1827 Mitchell 1792-1855 arrived in Sydney in September and began a six-year effort to produce a topographical map of the colony. His "Map of the Colony of New South Wales 1834 otherwise known as the 'map of the nineteen counties' has scarcely been equalled anywhere. It was perhaps Mitchell's greatest achievement. He determined too to extend his surveys outside the nineteen counties and though there are other reasons for his exploratory expeditions this was a major factor" ODNB. Mitchell's first expedition begun in late 1831 while his map was still in progress "explored between the Nammoi and the Gwydir and crossed the latter to strike the Barwon but there was no north-west river; all streams were clearly tributaries of the Darling. The murder by Aborigines of two of his party as they were bringing up provisions made a return to the settled colony imperative" ODNB and his party reached Sydney in February 1832. His second expedition undertaken three years later charted the course of the Darling to the point where it turned south establishing the likely region where it met the Murray. "Mitchell's third and most significant journey was undertaken ostensibly to connect the Murray with the Darling but also to explore the Murray and perhaps the country south of it. The expedition left Sydney in March 1836 and moved down the Lachlan. It was impossible to cross to the Darling so Mitchell proceeded to the Murrumbidgee and into the Murray following it down to what was thought to be the Darling junction. He traced the Darling upstream only sufficiently far to satisfy himself that it was in fact that river. Some 30 miles below the Goulburn river junction he turned off south-west. The region he then opened up he named Australia Felix now the western district of Victoria which certainly forms one of the richest tracts in Australia. At the Murray he found the country on the eve of being taken up by graziers and the deep tracks of his boat carriage quickly became their ribbon to follow to the south-west. This journey which lasted over seven months thus added greatly to the knowledge of a very fertile region of Australia" ODNB. Copies in the original cloth are nearly always found either rebacked or recased and this is a better example than most. 2 vols octavo. Frontispieces Vol. I hand-coloured 44 plates 3 hand-coloured 1 folding 5 maps and plans 3 hand-coloured 2 folding large folding map at rear with hand colouring vignette title pages illustrations and tables in text; 16 pages of publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. II. Original green vertically combed cloth recased spines lettered in gilt with gilt vignettes of kangaroos emus and aboriginal weapons boards decoratively blocked in blind yellow coated endpapers edges untrimmed binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds on front pastedown of Vol. I. Cloth clean light cockling and creasing small split at head of spine of Vol. II some plates foxed as usual large folding map with small splits at folds and stub rear repaired on verso: a very good set. Ferguson 2553; Hill 1165; Wantrup 124a. hardcover
18394505219London: T. & W. Boone 1839. A little rubbed with map at end of volume 2 in poor condition and with obtrusive tape repairs. Two volumes octavo with lithographed title-pages large folding map repaired and 51 lithographed plates a few folding or coloured and small text illustrations; contemporary half calf with marbled boards. <p><p>Thomas Livingstone Mitchell was appointed to succeed Oxley as Surveyor General of New South Wales in 1828. The first expedition described here was undertaken to establish the veracity of a story spread about the colony by escaped convict George Clarke "The Barber" who claimed to have discovered a large river flowing to the north of Australia known by the Aboriginal name of Kindur. This expedition investigated the Namoi Gwydir and Barwon rivers but failed to prove or disprove the existence of the Kindur.</p> <p>The second and third expeditions were both aimed at fully determining the course of the Darling River extending on Sturt's earlier discoveries. Despite meeting hostilities with local Aboriginal tribes resulting in a retreat to Sydney and dismissing Burke's specific instructions regarding the Darling Mitchell went on to make a discovery of the greatest importance: the rich lands of western Victoria which he named Australia Felix in 1836.</p> <p>As well as being a fine surveyor Mitchell was an accomplished draughtsman and the plates in the book are all after his own drawings.</p> <p>This is the second edition revised and extended from the first publication the previous year. Despite the huge European interest in Australian exploration reflected in the number of titles published in London mid-century only Mitchell's and Sturt's journals would run into second editions.</p> </p> . Provenance: Lionel Gilbert historian with bookplate. T. & W. Boone unknown
1836011759T.& W. Boon 1836. Map. Good. Disbound. First Edition. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. large folding mack 76.5 cm x 56cm. Linen backed hand coloured. 3 black spots 1-3mm in the lower half of the map small hole on a crease on the left hand side of the map. The map shows the tracks of Major Mitchell's expeditions to better survey inland Australia. The map also shows the limits of the colony of New South Wales around Sydney. The settlements of Melbourne and William's Town founded in 1835 are shown. . T.& W. Boon unknown
1857030745London: Routledge and Co. 1857 12mo. original pictorial paper boards paper spine chipped at both ends slightly rubbed & bumped occ. spots bookseller's blindstamp to FFE else internally clean & neat; pp. i-iv 5-64 with a folding map. A very good copy of a rare and fragile item. The earliest appearance of Livingstone's first major expedition in book form preceeding the more expansive 'Missionary Travels and Researches'. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG-. Routledge and Co. hardcover
187525367London: John Murray 1875. New Edition. Illustrated with maps and plates some folding. 8vo publisher’s full green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and decorated with a gilt tsetse fly with blind borders on the upper cover. ix 436 32 ads map. A very fine and handsome copy largely unopened the cloth bright and especially well preserved. A FINE AND ESSENTIALLY UNOPENED COPY OF PERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL BOOKS ON THE EXPLORATION OF AFRICA. This is the account of Livingstone’s first great expedition 1853-56 during which he explored the Zambesi and its Victoria Falls. One of the most important of all 19th century books on African exploration by one of the greatest explorer/missionaries of all time.<br> ".David Livingstone the Scottish medical missionary is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one of the greatest if not the greatest of the eminent Victorians both in his achievement and in his influence." - George Myrtle<br> This copy contains a fine folding plate at the front as well as a large number of full page and textual illustrations throughout. A handsome book. John Murray hardcover
187586268BB1875 . London: Murray 1875. 8°. XII 416 S. 1 Karte lose beiglegt Leinen Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren; Ex Libris auf Innendeckel unschön entfernt; leicht stockfleckig; Innenscharniere leicht angeplatzt unknown
1868311774London: Murray 1868. New Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Trinity College. Elevated motif to the front board. Folded in frontispiece. Finely bound in the original full aniline calf. With a gilt-blocked label and raised bands. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. Physical description: ix 436 32 book adverts. 34 lvs of plates: illus fold-out map: fold-out frontis. 19.8 cm. 8vo. Contents: Voyage to the Cape and Algoa Bay -- 1. Residence at Kuruman Lepelole and Kolobeng -- 2. The Boers -- The Kalahari desert -- Bushmen and Bakalahari -- 3. Discovery of Lake Ngami -- 4. Second and third journeys from Kolobeng -- The Chobe -- The Makololo -- Discovery of the Zambesi -- 5. Griquas and Bechuanas -- 6. Kuruman -- Missionaries -- 7. Native customs -- Bamangwato Hills -- 8. The Sanshureh and Chobe -- 9. Customs of the Makololo -- 10. The Makalaka -- 11. The Leeambye -- 12. Ascent of the Leeambye -- Barotse Valley -- Banyeti -- Naliele -- Mambari -- Marile -- Sesheke -- 13. Descent of the Chobe -- 14. Gonye Falls -- 15. Ascent of the Leeba -- 16. Journey to Shinte's town -- 17. The Lonaje -- Lake Dilolo -- 18. The Kasai -- 19. Through Bashinje territory to Cassange and the Basongo territory to Loanda -- 20. Makololo at Loanda -- Cazengo -- The Lucalla -- Massangano -- Golungo Alto -- 21. Residence at Golungo Alto -- Ambaca -- The Coanza -- 22. Tala Mungongo -- The Loajima -- 23. Detour southward -- Crossing the Kasai -- 24. The Lotemba -- Reception at Libonta -- 25. Naliele -- Gonye -- Linyanti -- 26. Descent of the Zambesi -- Victoria Falls -- Ancient lakes -- 27. The Mozuma -- The Batoka -- 28. The Kafue -- 29. Crossing the Loangwa and Zambesi -- District of Chicova -- 30. The Banyai -- Arrival at Tete -- 31. Tete and its vicinity -- 32. Descent of the Zambesi -- Voyage to Mauritius and thence to England. Subjects: Livingstone David 1813-1873. London Missionary Society. Missions Africa Southern. Exploration. Travel. 19th century. Genre: Travel. Illustrated. London: Murray hardcover
1868001430London: John Murray 1868. Rubbed and bumped cloth split to head of spine with minor loss and fraying to head and foot. Gutters rather heavily cracked throughout shaken fold-out frontis partially detached signature towards front also loosely attached the odd mark to pp else text and plates clean and bright. Cloth. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo. John Murray Hardcover
1857139047London: John Murray 1857. A rare fragment of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels A remarkable fragment the only portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels known to remain in private hands. We understand that all other manuscript material is held in the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland. Together with an autograph letter signed from Livingstone's sister sending the manuscript fragment and a copy of the first edition. The holograph manuscript is on blue laid paper watermarked "Thomas James" possibly a correction or revision slip measuring 152 x 197 mm and reads in full: "12th May. As we were about to start this morning the commandant Sr. Arsenio provided bread and meat most bountifully for my use in the way to the nearest station and sent too militia soldiers as guides instead of our Cassange corporal who left us here. About midday we asked for shelter from the sun at the house of Senhor Mellot at Zangu and though I was unable to sit and engage in." This 15-line section is published on page 383 of the first edition. The National Library of Scotland confirms that among the papers used in the original manuscript is blue paper watermarked "Thomas James". On 12 January 1892 the manuscript was sent by Livingstone's sister Janet 1818-1895 to "my dear Mrs Metzler" with an accompanying 2-page autograph letter signed addressed from Castle Lodge Kendal discussing her health and her meeting with Mrs Metzler at the popular Scottish watering-place of Wemyss Bay. "The bit of manuscript enclosed for your dear boy was written by Dr. Livingstone in 1857 for his first book 'Missionary Travels'". A full transcript of the letter is available on request. The recipient of Janet's letter may be a relative of the German missionary Peter Martin Metzler 1824-1907; if this is the case then Mrs Metzler is probably the wife of one of his four sons. Metzler worked mainly in the Middle East with a brief sojourn in East Africa in 1851. While in Mombasa he fell seriously ill and by the end of the year had returned to Germany. This item emerged in Germany. The book itself is a first edition corresponding to SABIB's variant 7. The frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are woodcuts by Whymper and the extra leaf numbered 8 and 8 is present corresponding with Bradlow's variant 3. As many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established. It is now accepted that "the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8 and 8 is not the first issue" Bradlow. The extra leaf contains information on Moffat's mission at Kuruman and on Livingstone's marriage and the upbringing of his children and Bradlow could only speculate as to the reasons for the interpolation: "Why did Livingstone decide to have the extra leaf after page 8 inserted Did he feel that he had neglected his wife by not mentioning her in this way in the first place All these questions and a host of others will occur to trained bibliographers and it may well be that in the future some indefatigable researcher will find the answers." Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. It describes the first of his three major expeditions "in which he followed the Zambezi discovering Victoria Falls in the process as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa many of which had never been seen by white men before" PMM. It was also "an instant commercial success. The initial print run of 12000 copies sold out through pre-publication subscriptions while second 8000 copies and third 11000 copies printings followed quickly on its heels. Later printings reportedly brought the sales total to 70000 for the first two years. Such figures were almost unprecedented for a work of exploration and ensured Livingstone's place alongside earlier celebrated British explorers like James Bruce and Mungo Park" website livingstoneonline. Octavo. Folding wood-engraved frontispiece steel-engraved portrait of Livingstone by William Holl after Henry Phillips with tissue-guard 22 further wood-engraved plates folding geological cross section 2 folding maps of which one in end-pocket wood-engravings to the text. Original reddish-brown sand-grain cloth title gilt to the spine blind panels to spine and boards brown coated endpapers binder's ticket Edmonds & Remnants to rear pastedown. Housed in a dark brown quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of Ginder of Canterbury to front pastedown. Spine gently sunned a little wear to extremities professional repair to inner hinges customary scattered foxing. A very good bright copy with the 8 pages of publisher's advertisements dated 1 November 1857 to rear. Abbey Travel 347; Bradlow "The Variants of the 1857 edition " in Lloyd ed. Livingstone 1873-1973; Howgego IV L39; Mendelssohn I p. 908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; SABIB III p. 136. hardcover
1872Alibris.0001502HUBBARD 1872. First edition. . Hard cover. Good. 598 p. HUBBARD hardcover
1857374734London 57 Sloane St 1857. 4pp. in pen. 1 vols. 8vo 7-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches. Fine. In morocco backed autograph case. 4pp. in pen. 1 vols. 8vo 7-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches. An intriguing letter reading in part "all your kind assistance in the matter of the hoes and gun. Everything is now in a fair way of accomplishment. The hoes to be made into an Enfield rifle. The gun to be repaired and new ones made by Mr. Goodman.I ought to thank your brother in law Mr. Lea for the kind invitation.you will perhaps kindly thank him in my name and tell him this book is like a chain on my leg and until it is finished I can go nowhere.The Portuguese Govt. has sent out an order to support my men at the public expense till I return so my mind is easy with respect to them." <br /> The burdensome book in question was his MISSIONARY TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA published in November 1857. unknown
185819814No place: Livingstone’s Blue Stationery 22 February 1858. The original letter unrestored. 230 x 184mm noted at the top "A true copy D.L." three pages written on blue paper in greyish-brown ink folded once. One page folio folded once. A clean copy with remains of mounting on the last page blank but for the note "copy to Dr. Tidman. A RARE AND IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM LIVINGSTONE. A fine letter expressing concern that money raised for his explorations in central Africa should be properly used: ".I am anxious for my own satisfaction and the information of those who may enquire to know when it is likely that young missionaries who are expected to commence the Zambesi mission will.take their departure from this country. Abundant funds having been furnished for all that is needed in the case and there being no obstacle in the path through the Cape Colony I should be glad to be assured before my departure that the intentions of your friends in subscribing so liberally are likely soon to be realized."<br> Livingstone’s MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA.relates the story of his first great expedition 1853-56 during which he explored the Zambesi and its Victoria Falls. It is still considered one of the most important of all 19th century books on African exploration by one of the greatest explorer/missionaries of all time. It is entered in Printing and the Mind of Man as one of the greatest and most important books ever penned.<br> ".David Livingstone the Scottish medical missionary is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one of the greatest if not the greatest of the eminent Victorians both in his achievement and in his influence." - George Myrtle Livingstone’s Blue Stationery unknown
189929616London: Sampson Low Marston and Company 1899. First edition 8vo viii 298 pp. 3 photographic plates one slightly creased to the outer margin fly leaf torn and repaired with a contemporary signature. Original red cloth spine faded with loss to ends light marking to the lower cover. Scarce. London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Company unknown
