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59660London Sampson Low Marston and Co. 1891-92. Royal 8vo. 6 original full pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering. Top of spine on volume 1 with light wear. Slight bumps to capitals and corners. 2 frontispieces Livingstone - Stanley. 572XII;580XII pp. profusely illustrated with plates textillustrations and maps. Clean and fine. hardcover
BN66303David Hockney · Nur Natur · Just Nature Weber C. Sylvia; Livingstone Marco and Becker Christoph <br/><br/> 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
1866014737New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First American Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece is a double page birds-eye view of the great cataracts of the Zambesi 638pp. large folding map at rear illustrated bound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled raised bands double red labels gilt boards lightly rubbed owner's name a very handsome copy. Harper & Brothers unknown
2008CBS-9780199211012Oxford University Press 2008. New. Oxford University Press unknown
2008CBS-9780199211012Oxford University Press 2008. New. Oxford University Press unknown
2012Adhya-9781849731669RSC 2012. Hardcover. New. RSC hardcover
2012Adhya-9781849731669RSC 2012. Hardcover. New. RSC hardcover
2012CBS-9781849731669Sp Rsc Publishing 2012. New. Sp Rsc Publishing unknown
2012CBS-9781849731669Sp Rsc Publishing 2012. New. Sp Rsc Publishing unknown
1865212750RLondon: John Murray 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece is a fold-out b/w drawing of Victoria falls and the zigzag chasm below. 35 illustrations are listed 5 of which are full-page one is the fold-out at frontispiece and the remaining are within the text. No.19 "Wedding Procession at Tette" has been removed. 608 pages 32 pages of advertising. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owner's name on blank page after ffep and on first page of preface. Original burgundy cloth gilt illustration on front gilt titles on spine. Book is solid tight and clean. The outside of the spine has been rebacked. VG. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
1857906Z50London: John Murray 1857. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 5.5". J. W. Whymper. The first edition later issue of David Livingstone's important travel work with illustrations and maps. The first edition later issue with the extra pages numbered 8 and 8 no colour lithographed plates and advertisements to the rear dated November 1st 1857. In the publisher's original cloth. Illustrated with a folding monochrome frontispiece and forty-six illustrations including folding plates and maps. Folding map to pocket to the rear board. Collated complete.This work was written by noted Scottish physician Christian missionary and African explorer David Livingstone. This important travelogues shows the intellectual breadth of the author in his descriptions of his experiences working as a missionary and travelling in South Africa. Livingstone was well educated on Africa having spent his sixteen years there reading extensively on religion medicine anthropology and natural history. It was during these sixteen years that he decided to keep a journal on his experiences knowing that his reputation as an explorer was rising. This work is written in a conversational style with humorous tones. He offers a fantastic enlightening and detailed account of the lives of people in South Africa in the mid nineteenth century. The work was very popular upon publication seeing twelve-thousand copies of the first impression being sold out before publication. David Livingstone was a Victorian hero for his work with the London Missionary Society as a medical pioneer and explorer in Africa. This book gives great detail into his explorations including an insight into the years in which is was missing and presumed dead by British authorities. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally sound with loss to the head of the spine bumping and rubbing to the extremities marks to the boards and small closed tears to the tail of the spine. Front hinge weak and rear failed with binder's label to the rear pastedown. Internally generally firmly bound with pp.295-298 weak and the odd page starting. Pages lightly age toned with occasional spotting. Folding map to the rear in fine condition. Good Only John Murray hardcover
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
2012W1-1-250911003U S Games Systems 2012-05-07. cards. Very Good. 4x1x6. OOP Tarot deck w/ case and booklet. All materials are in very good unused condition. Deck is complete. U S Games Systems 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
188529111<p>Published in London by Walter Scott in 1885 this biography traces David Livingstone's movements across Central and Southern Africa. The text compiles missionary records travel documents and geographical observations attributed to Livingstone who became a central figure in Victorian interest in the African continent. References to his contribution appear in Printing and the Mind of Man emphasizing his influence on 19th-century mapping efforts. The book spans over 630 pages in quarto format and retains its original publisher's cloth with gilt and black design on the front board. Condition: Very Good. Covers show light rubbing and fading to the spine; boards remain firm and the text block is tight. Pages clean throughout with minimal toning. Collation: viii 632 2. Edition: First edition 1885. Illustrations: 12 color plates. Format: Quarto 4to single volume. References: Printing and the Mind of Man. Item Number SKU: #29111. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Walter Scott hardcover
185916013<p><b>1859 AFRICA David Livingstone Missionary African Travel Illustrated Zambezi RARE</b></p><p><i>"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." </i></p><p><i>– </i>David Livingstone </p><p>A rare early edition of David Livingstone's "<i>Missionary Travels</i>". 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. "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 341. </p><p>Livingstone discovered the Zambesi River and Victoria Falls which he named parts of Angola and Mozambique; met with and observed the Hottentot. He was also able to discover some of the most devastating instances of slave trade which propelled his abolitionist ideals. </p><p>Item number: #16013</p><p>Price: $499</p><p>LIVINGSTONE David</p><p><b><i>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 the Eastern Ocean.</i></b></p><p>Philadelphia J.W. Bradley 1859. 1st American edition</p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages </p><p>o xiv 440</p><p>o Illustrated throughout</p><p>· References: PMM 341</p><p>· Language: English</p><p>· Binding: Hardcover; secure</p><p>· Size: ~8in X 5.5in 20cm x 14cm</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>16013</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> J.W. Bradley hardcover
2016x-0691639140Princeton Univ Pr 2016. Hardcover. New. 652 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.42 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
20251810<p><em><strong>EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SIGNED! COLLECTOR'S EDITION!</strong></em> First printing. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by BOTH Steve Jackson AND Ian Livingstone directly to first interior page. NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket had covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting!</p><p>A deluxe collector's edition of the first book in the iconic Fighting Fantasy series - the perfect gift for fans.</p><p>PART STORY PART GAME - PURE ADVENTURE!<br />"A new way of telling stories and in many ways the birth of modern gaming these books captured the imaginations of a generation of kids - it's great to think that a new generation are going to be similarly captivated" bestselling author Charlie Higson</p><p>Are YOU brave enough to take on the monsters and magic of Firetop Mountain.</p><p>The powerful warlock Zagor must be slain - but first you'll need to make it through the caverns of his mountain stronghold. Many adventurers before you have taken a wrong turn in the maze and perished at the hands and claws of the Warlock's gruesome servants .</p><p>step up hero it's time to fight!</p> Scholastic hardcover
1866431H1643New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1866. Book. Illus. by Arrowsmith John. Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxii 638 6 ads pages. Fold-out map. Occasional black and white illustrations. "It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of country previously unexplored with their river systems natural productions and capabilities; and to bring before my countrymen and all others interested in the cause of humanity the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases - a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgement." - from Preface. "There must be something in the appearance of white men frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for on entering villages previously unvisited by Europeans if we met a child. he would take to his heels in an agony of terror such as we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum." - from page 199. Fold-out map measures 24" wide by 17" high and is entitled "The River Shire The Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa The Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi & Rovuma" - based on the Astronomical observations and sketches of Dr. Livingstone Constructed by John Arrowsmith 1865. The routes of Dr. Livingstone and the Officers of the expedition are indicated in red. Map bears one inch opening along left side. Book has been recased in red buckram with new beige endpapers. Binding sound. Average wear. Unmarked. Lettering upon spine rubbed but legible. A quality copy. Harper & Brothers Publishers Hardcover
2012SONG1572817151U.S. Games Systems Inc 2012-05-07. Crds. cards. Used: Good. 4.75x1.75x6.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. U.S. Games Systems, Inc unknown
186647971New York: Harper & Brothers 1866. First American edition 8vo pp. xxi 638 6 ads; folding map double-page wood-engraved frontispiece title-page vignette 36 wood-engraved illustrations 12 full-page; original brown cloth covers bound in at the back; joints rubbed else a very good copy in somewhat later three-quarter brown morocco gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine. Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 389 for the London edition of the previous year. Harper & Brothers unknown
#[34994]New York Harper & Brothers 1866. Original cloth spine discoloured one hinge sl. dam. With double-page plate of the Falls at Zambesi large folding map and 36 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XXII638; 6 pp. First American edition; first published in London in 1865; with the armorial bookplate of Frederick C. Bradley. - Account of Livingstone's second expedition.The British government agreed to fund Livingstone's idea and he returned to Africa as head of the Second Zambesi Expedition to examine the natural resources of southeastern Africa and open up the Zambezi River. However it turned out to be completely impossible to boats past the Cahora Bassa rapids a series of cataracts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels. He eventually returned home in 1864 after the government ordered the recall of the expedition because of its increasing costs and failure to find a navigable route to the interior. The Zambezi Expedition a farcical and costly six-year-long venture that sought to create a missionary arcadia in what is now Malawi collapsed in 1864 with no coverts or new discoveries only disarry and death including that of Livingstone's long-suffering wife Mary Howgego The book of exploration p.246. Livingstone became a protagonist in the fight to abolish slavery. Mendelssohn I p.915; SAB III p.137; Howgego IV p.553-555; Hess & Coger 3069. hardcover
187586425London: John Murray 1875. Fine. John Murray London 1875 12 x 18.20 cm relié New edition illustrated with a folding frontispiece a title vignette with a hippopotamus 13 plates and a folding map with the route marked in red. Contemporary full navy blue calf binding signed Relfe brothers London at the top of the first endpaper. Raised band spine decorated. Red calf title label. Roulette on the edges and interior border. Marbled edges matching the endpaper. Arms of the Fauconberge school on the upper cover. On the pastedown large price label of the Fauconberge school awarded in manuscript to W. L. D. Sharpin prize for greek testament. On the facing endpaper large prize label: The lorin greek testament prize. Light traces of rubbing. Spine uniformly darkened. Small tear on the upper cover. One tear to the map without loss. Very fresh except for some foxing on the endpapers. Very handsome copy. John Murray unknown
1857100339<p>Modern l/2 leather with marbled boards 8vo 711 pp. Illustrated. Minor foxing and toning but a very nice copy. Contains all plates and maps 47 in all including the index. Foldout illustration of Victoria Falls one of the more interesting plates. Also contains the folding map of South Africa and a folding map of Livingstone's route across Africa.</p> John Murray hardcover
