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198982396Museum. New. 1989. Hardcover. 0870706802 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - Corresponds to ISBN: 0870706802. 479 pages 460 illus. 277 in color. 176 refrence illustrations lg.4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum hardcover
198883576St Martins Press; Academy. New. 1988. Paperback. 0312019041 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 96 pages 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . St Martins Press; Academy paperback
2017903308Bloomsbury Academic. New. 2017. Hardcover. 1472584422 . - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED - with a bonus offer-- . Bloomsbury Academic hardcover
2017903307Bloomsbury Academic. New. 2017. Paperback. 1472584430 . - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED - with a bonus offer-- . Bloomsbury Academic paperback
195881049Published for the Rushlight Club by C.E. Tuttle Co. As New. 1958. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ASIN: B0007FBHJ6. 138 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Published for the Rushlight Club [by] C.E. Tuttle Co hardcover
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
2004K17VM1301Rizzoli New York 2004. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Large very heavy 4to in colour printed glazed boards with glossy dust jacket and housed in a matching thick card slip-case. 240pp on thick art paper illustrated in colour throughout. Hand numbered 185 of 400 copies and signed by Groooms and with a colour lithograph on stiff card fully pre-assembled pop-up with integral base at rear. It is a re-working of Grooms' New York Taxi of 1986 - which in turn was based on his earlier giant Ruckus NY taxi sculpture __CONDITION : NEW copy in a NEW Dust Jacket and NEW slip-case plus printed wrap-around paper band loosely inserted. . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Rizzoli, New York hardcover
18575000745London: 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 period binding of half black morocco and grained cloth sides spine gilt in compartments marbled edges and endpapers. <p><p>The most famous account of African exploration recording three years spent in the wilderness between 1853-1856. 'Livingstone one of the great characters of the nineteenth century embodying all the virtues of the Victorian age is often remembered more for his qualities as a man than for his achievements as an explorer. Born with no social advantages it was his courage and boldness of conception his deep religious feelings and his great powers of endurance that carried him through the trials and hardships of a dedicated life and eventually gained him the honour of burial in Westminster Abbey' Printing and the Mind of Man 341.</p> <p>This first edition appeared in various issues. Abbey suggested that those with plates 1 and 8 as wood-engravings -- as in this copy -- preceded those in which they were reprinted as tinted lithographs while Bradlow argued much the reverse. In any case this very attractive copy has them as wood-engravings and is one of the issues that appeared before the addition of a leaf following p. 8 in which Livingstone later expounded on the subject of his family. Renard seem to have called this variant the third issue but no reliable order of precedence has been established for the 11 issues that have been identified; Bradlow notes 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".</p> </p> . Provenance: With the blind stamp of "Walch and Sons Booksellers Hobart Town" booksellers in Tasmania from 1846. John Murray unknown
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
1878B3867London: Adam & Co c.1878. A handsome copy in decorative period binding with fine colour plates text and plates clean and crisp. Binding: Contemporary morocco with gilt rules and wide gilt band surrounding the central gilt medallion rebacked expertly saving the original spine in 6 compartments of gilt raised bands gilt text on 2 edges gilt. Size: Large 4to Illustration: Adorned with 20 full page hand colour plates. Pages: P. blanks frontispiece title blank preface iii-iv contents v-viii p.1-632 blanks. Category: Book Plate Books Colour;Book Africa General; Adam & Co hardcover
PJH33667Rizzoli 2004. Mint in publishers cloth in dustjacket in die - cut decorated slipcase with red wraparound still shrink wrapped. 240pp. Illustrated throughout. Hand signed edition of 400 copies with pop - up exclusive to this edition at rear. 1st edition 1st issue of stunning retrospective of Grooms' fifty years work. Best known for his extravagant life-sized artworks of stores subways and city scenes Red Grooms populates these environments with offbeat spirited easily identifiable characters who strike a humorous chord. Intertwining sculpture with painting his work transcends both traditional portraiture and caricature. This is the first major book on Red Grooms's work published since 1984 and includes many drawings personal photographs and prints that have never been seen or published. Many of his famed sculpto-pictoramas appear in full color and some in gatefolds such as Moby Dick Meets the NYPL Tennessee Carousel and The Marathon. Grooms's 1995 Grand Central Terminal is still remembered by thousands as a peak artistic experience. Other environments include an agricultural building for the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa the beloved Ruckus Manhattan complete with subway car and Brooklyn Bridge and a Ruckus Rodeo commissioned by the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. Mixed-media pieces highlight portraits of classic and contemporary artists from Toulouse-Lautrec to Francis Bacon. Hollywood greats historical figures even Chuck Berry have been immortalized in the exuberant Grooms style. Arthur Danto writes on Red Grooms and the spirit of comedy; Marco Livingstone's introduction contextualizes Red Grooms's work in the art of his time and discusses his relationship to Pop Happenings environmental art and developments in painting; a recent interview with Red Grooms by Timothy Hyman completes the text. Grooms's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and around the world. The artist lives in New York City and Nashville Tennessee. ISBN 084782635X Rizzoli 2004 hardcover
185714921London, John Murray, 1857. Petit in-4 de IX-[1]-687-8 pages, pleine percaline brune décorée à froid. Etiquette de la librairie Desrogis, à Genève (de l'époque de la publication de l'ouvrage). Infime fente à la coiffe supérieure. Etiquette du relieur: Edmonds & Remnants.
1864128416Bath: Printed and published by the Proprietor George Harvey Wood Proprietor of the Gazette 1864. The reverend and eminent traveller was greatly applauded Livingstone's first public remarks concerning the Second Zambezi Expedition given on Monday 19 September 1864 to a packed meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Bath's Theatre Royal. Attended by over 2000 people the lecture was the first in a series of speaking engagements - the public fascination with Livingstone's travels showed no signs of abating. Following the end of the expedition Livingstone arrived back in London on 23 July 1864. After several weeks of society engagements with the Palmerstons and others he travelled to Bath with his daughter Agnes. Although preparations for his lecture were difficult - "Worked at my Bath speech. A cold shiver comes over me when I think of it. Ugh!" quoted in Blaikie p. 343 - at the event itself he warmed to his subject. "He used it to report and denounce Portuguese slave trading in and around Mozambique. The speech caused enough of a stir to provoke an official response from Lisbon accusing him of 'exploring for no other purpose than to drive the Portuguese out of Africa'. This encouraged him to expand the lecture into a book which by the time it was finished had become a full-length account of the Zambezi expedition Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries" Tomkins p. 174. Single sheet 650 x 270 mm letterpress both sides the lecture occupying almost one full side. Old folds light wear to edges and damp-staining small ink spill and split along one fold text legible: very good. William Blaikie The Personal Life of David Livingstone 1881; Stephen Tomkins David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story 2013. unknown
1857165500London: 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 for the scale and complexity of his career in Africa" ODNB. The book 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" PMM. This is Bradlow's variant I: the frontispiece and plate facing page 66 are tinted lithographs by West and the plate facing page 225 is a black and white lithograph from a sketch by Bell; the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. 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. Provenance: with the armorial bookplate of Colonel William O'Neill on the front pastedown. Born in Ireland O'Neill 1800-1869 served with the 83rd County of Dublin Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War for which he was awarded a war medal and eight clasps. He later served during the Third Kandyan War in Ceylon. Octavo. Folding tinted lithographed frontispiece engraved portrait of Livingstone 2 lithographed and 20 wood-engraved plates folding geological cross section 2 folding maps 1 in endpocket wood engravings in the text; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original moderate brown sand-grain cloth spine lettered gilt spine and boards panelled in blind pink surface-paper endpapers top and fore-edge uncut. Contemporary and recent bookseller's tickets on front pastedown. A few marks to cloth binding and inner hinges expertly repaired endpapers discoloured minor repair to stub of folding map. A very good copy with cloth bright. Abbey Travel 347; Howgego IV L39; Mendelssohn I p. 908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; SABIB III p. 136. F. R. Bradlow "The Variants of the 1857 edition" Livingstone 1873-1973 1973. hardcover
1857182195London: 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 for the scale and complexity of his career in Africa" ODNB. The book 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" PMM. This is Bradlow's variant II: the frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are tinted lithographs by Picken. As many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established. Octavo. Tinted lithographed folding frontispiece engraved portrait of Livingstone 22 wood-engraved or lithographed plates folding geological cross section 2 folding maps one in endpocket wood-engravings in the text; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt spine and covers panelled and decorated in blind yellow coated endpapers fore edge uncut. Alex U. Denniston Brown of Balloch Castle bookplate on front pastedown; William M. Lese Collection ticket on front pastedown. Spine and front inner hinge sometime repaired inner hinges cracked remnants of label to front pastedown minor split along folds to maps and frontispiece. A very good copy. Abbey Travel 347; Howgego IV L39; Mendelssohn I p. 908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; SABIB III p. 136. F. R. Bradlow "The Variants of the 1857 edition" Livingstone 1873-1973 1973. hardcover
1857119267London: John Murray 1857. First edition Bradlow's variant 2: the frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are all tinted lithographs by T. Picken and the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. Frank R. Thorold called this the first issue and Gaston Renard believed it to be the second but 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. Provenance: from the noted travel collection of Humphrey Winterton with his monogram book-label to the front pastedown. Octavo. Folding frontispiece engraved portrait of Livingstone with tissue-guard 22 further 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. With 8 pages of publisher's advertisements dated 1 November 1857 to rear. Ownership inscription "Lizzie Henderson Jany 1906" to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled slightly bumped at foot front inner hinge cracked but firm light spotting to edges frontispiece foxed and offset quire 2E starting. A very good copy. 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
185720183London: John Murray 1857. First Edition. Folding frontispiece engraved portrait 2 large folding maps including one in the rear pocket 43 black and white illustrations many full page. 8vo publisher’s original brown cloth decorated in all over designs on the covers in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. x 687 folding map8 ads folding map in rear pocket pp. A very bright and handsome copy well preserved with very minimal wear to the fragile cloth a much better copy than normally encountered inner hinges can be expertly and unbtrusively strengthened and refurbished and an endleaf restored. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S BINDING. This is the account of Livingstone’s first great expedition 1853-56 during which he explored the Zambesi and its Victoria Falls. This first American edition is taller then its English counterpart. It retains all of the illustrations though arranged a bit differently.<br> AN IMPORTANT PMM ENTRY. One of the most important of all 19th century books on African exploration this title is listed in Printing and the Mind of Man. <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> “ In this literary tour de force Livingstone exhibited impressive gifts as a descriptive write a sharp sense of humour and an instinctive feeling for what people who knew nothing of Africa would find interesting.†David Livingstone and the Victorian encounter with Africa National Portrait Gallery p.37. John Murray hardcover
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
1857KBFFF0XG3X24London 1857. 8vo. John Murray back of title-page: W. Clowes and sons Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth with short-title in gold on spine. With a folding tinted lithographed plate as frontispiece a wood-engraved illustration on the title-page a lithographed portrait of Livingstone 20 lithographed plates 2 tinted lithographed plates a folding lithographed plate with a geological cross section a lithographed folding map of southern Africa a lithographed folding map pasted on cloth with Livingstone's route from west to east Africa highlighted in red and many wood-engraved illustrations in text. 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 July 1841 at Kuruman in southern Africa. " In 1841-43 he travelled a considerable distance to the north of Kuruman and selected for his future operations the valley of Mabotsa Mabotse" Howgego. He changed station several times in the following years and was the first European to locate Lake Ngami Botswana in 1849. In 1852 Livingstone left Cape Town travelling north trying to find a suitable location on the Zambezi for a missionary station and travelled further to Luanda Angola where he arrived in 1854. He decided to travel back to Lintanti Botswana and further eastward becoming in 1855 the first European to see the waterfall he named Victoria Falls. From there he continued his journey to the east by canoe and arrived in Quelimane Mozambique in May 1856. The map included at the end shows this impressive journey. From Quelimane Livingstone sailed back to England. The folding frontispiece depicts Victoria Falls based on the sketch that Livingstone brought back the first published view apparently produced for Livingstones book though Murray appears to have issued it separately in May 1857 a few months before the book appeared; the other plates show many wild animals and natives in their villages.Occasionally some small spots stains or minor foxing internally otherwise in very good condition. Binding worn damaged at head and foot of spine and back board partly detached.l Abbey Travel 347; Bradlow Africana books and pictures p. 123; Gay 3034; Henderson Publishing Livingstones Missionary travels; Howgego 1850-1940 L 33; Mendelssohn South African Bibliography pp. 908-910; PMM 341. hardcover
198851468GOLDMANN WILHELM 11/1988. 1. softcover. FANTASYABENTEUERSPIELBUCH GOLDMANN, WILHELM paperback
0140316043New. Brand new and still unused unknown
23786New York: Rizzoli 2004. Boards. Fine/Fine. A flawless copy of the "signed numbered edition of 400 copies each with an original pop-up artwork by the artist". Also includes an immaculate slipcase and red wraparound band. And as noted in the title the publisher's tight original shrinkwrap still firmly in place. Folio lithographic multiple the pop-up complementing Arthur Danto's and Marco Livingstone's and Timothy Hyman's text. Rizzoli unknown
1857326003London: John Murray 1857. hardcover. 22 plates 2 folding maps a folding frontispiece 17 text illustrations. 687pp. index 8vo handsomely rebound in 3/4 brown morocco marbled boards and edges decoratively gilt spine with green leather spine label. London: John Murray 1857. First Edition. A fine copy but for heavy foxing on the portrait. London: John Murray 1857. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/> <br/> John Murray unknown
187412948London: John Murray 1874. Signature of Thos. Thornton dated 1875 on both titles. Complete with the publisher's advertisements. With frontispiece portrait 2 coloured folding maps 1 in a map pocket at the end of Volume I and numerous illustrations. Original gilt pictorial cloth some fading to the spine and spotting to the blank fly-leaves. Signature of Thos. Thornton dated 1875 on both titles. First edition of the record of Livingstone's extraordinary series of travels which reflect a continuous seven years of scientific geographical work and new discoveries. From the time of Livingstone's departure from Zanzibar in the beginning of 1866 to the day of his death in Illala at the end of April 1873 he drew the world's attention to the great evil of the African slave traffic. The objects of the expeditions were the suppression of slavery and the exploration of the south central lake system of South Africa.<br /> <br /> Livingstone 1813-1873 was a celebrated explorer who produced a wide body of knowledge in such fields as geography technology and the social and medical sciences. His insight concerning quinine as an ingredient for the cure of malaria was important. Horace Waller 1833-96 was a writer on Africa close friend of Livingstone and Bishop Mackenzie and a great advocate of the abolition of slavery. John Murray unknown
1857313644London: 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 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. "Livingstone's services to African geography . are almost unequalled . he explored vast regions of central Africa many of which had never been seen by white men before" PMM.<br/><br/>One of the great classics of African travel. When Livingstone returned to England after sixteen years in Africa he was immediately awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal. These years saw him seek to fulfil his obligations to the London Missionary Society he made two long journeys north try to find a better station for the mission to operate from. He later travelled to Lake Ngami and most importantly in the years 1854-6 he made his great crossing of Africa from Luanda on the west coast to Quelimane on the east. All of this is recorded in his account. He set the standard that the likes of Stanley Speke and Burton all tried to attain. <br/><br/>His account not only set out his adventures and experiences but it filled with notes on natural history anthropology tropical medicine and religion. Furthermore Czech notes that the work also contains sporting interest: "There are numerous sporting incidents with hunts after lions buffalo elephants and a variety of plains game even though Livingstone did not consider himself a sportsman" Abbey Travel 347; F.R. Bradlow "The Variants of the 1857 edition" in Lloyd ed. Livingstone 1873-1973; Czech p. 168; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I pp. 908-910; PMM 341; Abbey Travel 347; Czech Africa p. 168; ; Henze III p. 270; Gay 3034; ; cf. Kainbacher p. 87 John Murrary unknown books
