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Livingstone David; Charles Livingstone.ABAA

Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries

Livingstone David 1813 1873ABAA

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

1875BOOKS000242New York: Harper & Brothers 1875 5414 ad pages with frontispiece portrait 2 maps including folding pocket map 21 full page and 25 smaller illustrations. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" issued in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt pictorial on cover and spine with blind stamped rule to cover edges edges beveled. Edited by Horace Waller. First published in London by John Murray in 1874. 1st American edition. Dr David Livingstone 19 March 1813 1 May 1873 was a British Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. He was the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya Victoria Falls to which he gave the English name in honour of his monarch Queen Victoria. He is the subject of the meeting with H. M. Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr Livingstone I presume" Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late-nineteenth century in Victorian Britain Livingstone had a mythic status which operated on a number of interconnected levels: that of Protestant missionary martyr that of working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story that of scientific investigator and explorer that of imperial reformer anti-slavery crusader and advocate of commercial empire. His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the Nile River that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. At the same time his missionary travels "disappearance" and death in Africa and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa." Condition: Shelf wear head and heal of spine rubbed frayed and chipped slight rubbing along front hinge small sticker removed from pack pocket else a very good copy. . First American Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Royal octavo. Harper & Brothers hardcover books

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LIVINGSTONE DavidABAA

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

185767919First Edition of Livingstone's Travels in South Africa Signed by the Author LIVINGSTONE David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen YearsÃ 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.With Portrait; Maps by Arrowsmith; and Numerous Illustrations. London: John Murray 1857. First edition third state. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 222 x 148 mm. ix 1 list of illustrations 687 1 printerÃs imprint pp. plus 8 pp. publisherÃs advertisements dated November 1 1857. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. "David Livingstone/ Dec. 18th/1857." Folding lithographed frontispiece and two engraved plates by T. Picken engraved portrait by William Holl after Henry Phillips twenty wood-engraved plates folding printed table with wood-engraved illustration two folding lithographed maps by John Arrowsmith with routes colored by hand in red one in pocket at rear and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text one full-page. Original light brown morocco-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Expertly recased. With new endpapers. Small newspaper clipping tipped in below signature in front free endpaper. Some very minor wear to head and tail of spine. Small stain to lower part of back board. Internally very clean. A very good and handsome copy of this seminal book. House in a custom cloth slipcase. Ã¬Three states of the first edition have been identified. In the probable first state the lithographed plates opposite pp. 66 and 225 are tinted brown and pale green respectively; in the second state the lithograph opposite p. 225 is tinted brown and differs substantially from its counterpart in the first state; and in the third state both lithographs have been replaced with black and white engravingsÃ® Norman Library. Ã¬LivingstoneÃs contributions to European knowledge of African geography and ethnography remain virtually unequalled. In three major expeditions 1853-1856 1858-1864 and 1865-1873 he covered a third of the continent from the Cape to the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans observing and delineating regions previously unknown to white men; he was the first European to explore the Zambesi River and gave Victoria Falls its present name. Livingstone also brought his powers of observation to bear on the native peoples he encountered and was inspired by what he saw to entertain not only evangelical notions of their salvation but political and medican ones as well. He was the first to disclose to the European world the terrible effects of the slave trade upon native populations; the horrors of this Ã«running sore of AfricaÃ moved him to campaign actively for its abolition. He also provided an accurate account of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans along with the disease its bite produced in cattle; at the time the flyÃs bite was thought to be and perhaps was harmless to manÃ® Norman Library. David Livingstone 1813-1873 Ã¬became a missionary and was sent to South Africa by the London Missionary Society in 1840. From then onwards his life was devoted to the exploration of central Africa. Although a missionary.he regarded himself more as a pioneer explorer opening up the country for others. LivingstoneÃs services to African geography during thirty years are almost unequalled; he covered about a third of the continent from the Cape to the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. He made three great expeditions; in 1853-6 described in this book 1858-64 and 1865-73 of which the first and third are the most important. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa many of which had never been seen by white men before. Hie first discovered the Zambesi River at Secheke and followed it northwards eventually reaching the west coast of Africa at Luanda Angola and the east coast at Quelimane Mozambique. In 1855 he discovered the great falls of the Zambesi and named them the Victoria Falls. He explored the Zambesi Shire and Ruyuma rivers and found the salt lake Chilwa and Lake Nyasa.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 blankÃ® Printing and the Mind of Man. Abbey Travel 347. Garrison and Morton 5269. Mendelssohn I pp. 908-910. Printing and the Mind of Man 341. HBS 67919. $7500 John Murray hardcover books

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Livingstone DavidABAA

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa

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

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