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1893134349New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons 1893. Octavo pp. i-ii iii iv 1-176 illustrations by Richard Jack and Hal Hurst original decorated red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Collection of loosely connected stories narrated by an old American Colonel to some compatriots in a Paris bar comic fantasias that sometimes veer into the outright fantastic. In "Silver Plated" a tenor brought over to America for a tour accidentally sits in a pool of electricity which melts the silver from his pocket watch and deposits it around his waist. Customs agents demand duty on him on account of the silver and the impresario must use some Yankee ingenuity to avoid paying it. See Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years for a description of similar tales of Alden that appeared in periodicals. Wright III 44. Owner's signature dated 1893 on front free endpaper. Ink stain along outer rear joint spine lean several other spots and some general dust soiling to cloth otherwise a very good copy internally clean and tight. #134349 J. Selwin Tait & Sons unknown books
18932304646Boston Mass: Atlantic News Company 1893. Stapled Binding. Fair. One in OCLC. Spine missing wrappers taped to spine rear wrapper chipped and stained. 1893 Stapled Binding. 147 pp. A detective story set in old time New York. Atlantic News Company unknown books
187522134Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Company 1875. Large thick octavo 23.5cm.; original brown pictorial cloth upper cover and spine embossed in gilt brown glazed endpapers; 254114adspp.; engraved portrait frontispiece 21 plates including one color facsimile one color double-page map and one large color folding map loose in chemise mounted inside rear cover; additional text illus. throughout. Extremities a bit rubbed a few tiny chips to endpapers else a Very Good copy. Jansen, McClurg, & Company unknown books
1875261385New York: Harper 1875. hardcover. very good. Extensively illustrated with maps and text illustrations. LACKS THE TWO FOLDING MAPS IN REAR POCKET. 541pp. 8vo decorative blue cloth; ownership signature front free endpaper covers well worn but sound. New York: Harper & Brothers 1875. A very good copy internally clean but with worn covers.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
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
1866RLIVNAR00fpHarper & Brothers Publishers 1866. Fair. Livingstone David and Charles. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and of It's Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. New York NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1866. xxii 638pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown cloth. Book condition: Fair. Heavy rubbing to edges with exposed corners and losses to both ends of spine. Three inch split on right side of spine and one inch split on left side with small losses. Soiling on covers. Hinges tight and internally clean. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1865317016London: John Murray 1865. First edition. Engraved folding frontispiece 12 engraved plates folding repaired at joints route map to rear. xiv ii 1-608pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarter mottled brown polished modern calf marbled baords brown leather title labels. Fine. First edition. Engraved folding frontispiece 12 engraved plates folding repaired at joints route map to rear. xiv ii 1-608pp. 8vo. Howgego IV L34 Mendelssohn I 915 SABIB III p. 137 John Murray unknown books
186648060New York: Harper & Bros 1866. First American edition 8vo pp. xxi 1 638 6 ads; folding map double-page wood-engraved frontispiece title-page vignette 36 wood-engraved illustrations 12 full-page; original green cloth boards; cloth cracked along upper joint edges rubbed else a very good copy. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros hardcover books
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. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1866160129New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1866. Hardcover. VG clean and tight; original cloth/binding with light shelf wear to head/tail of spine; a bit of discoloration to cloth at edges. Small tear to folding map at gutter edge. Spring green cloth/boards. Black lettering. xxii 638 with double-page bw frontis title page illustrations and 36 bw illustrations; large folding map at back illustrating Livingstone's travels. 6 pages of adverts at back. Written in 29 chapters plus an introduction about The Zambesi and Its Tributaries. With a preface and leaving no stone unturned a postscript to the preface. The folding map more specifically is titled Map of the River Shire the Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa the Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi & Rovuma Based on the Astronomical Observations & Sketches of Dr. Liviningstone 1865. A lovely edition with wonderful illustrations. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
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 books
18655052London: John Murray 1865. First edition. Very Good. 22 cm; xiv 608 32 pages panoramic folding wood-engraved frontispiece title page vignette 12 plates numerous illustrations to the text folding map with the route marked in red at the rear. Bound in recent half leather over marbled boards in period style. Contents clean. John Murray hardcover books
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 books
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
1857317013London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1857. First edition. Folding engraved frontispiece of Victoria Falls neatly silked 3 folding maps one in rear pocket 24 plates and numerous text illustrations. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in three quarter modern brown morocco and marbled boards maroon leather tile label. Fine text with some foxing. First edition. Folding engraved frontispiece of Victoria Falls neatly silked 3 folding maps one in rear pocket 24 plates and numerous text illustrations. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 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 347; Mendelssohn. Vol. I pp. 908-909; Printing and the Mind of Man 341 John Murray, Albemarle Street unknown books
1857317050London: John Murray 1857. First edition Bradlow variant 2. Folding tinted frontispiece of Victoria Falls 2 folding maps 24 plates 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Modern calf spine elaborately gilt. A few minor repairs very good. First edition Bradlow variant 2. Folding tinted frontispiece of Victoria Falls 2 folding maps 24 plates 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. x 687 1 pp. 1 vols. Thick 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; Mendelssohn. Vol. I pp. 908-909; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; Bradlow "The Variants of the 1857 edition " in Lloyd ed. Livingstone 1873-1973 John Murray unknown books
185855883NY: Harper & Brothers 1858. First edition. 8vo pp. 732 adv. Bound in drab brown cloth cloth cut along the hinge end papers stained illustrated with plates and a map. A good copy. Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay 3034. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 341. cfAbbey Travel 347. cfHosken p. 126 1st Issue. Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition the Trans-Africa journey of 1853-56. On this expedition he travelled from Linyanti to Loanda and from Linyanti to Quilimane. While exploring the Zambesi River he discovered the famous Victoria Falls in November 1855. "The results in geography and in natural science in all its departments were abundant and accurate; his observations necessitated a reconstruction of the map of Central Africa. When Livingstone began his work in Africa the map was virtually blank from Kuruman to Timbuktu and nothing but envy or ignorance can throw any doubt on the originality of his discoveries." Encyc. Britan. 11th Edn. Livingstone also here gives an accurate account of the tsetse fly and of the disease produced in cattle following its bite. "Delightful reading." DNB Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay 3034. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 341. cfAbbey Travel 347. cfHosken p. 126 1st Issue. Harper & Brothers unknown books
185855932NY: Harper & Brothers 1858. First edition. 8vo pp. 732 adv. Bound in leather backed boards rubbed along the hinges bookplate end papers toned hinge starting illustrated with plates and a map well worn at the folds. Just a good copy. Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay 3034. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 341. cfAbbey Travel 347. cfHosken p. 126 1st Issue. Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition the Trans-Africa journey of 1853-56. On this expedition he travelled from Linyanti to Loanda and from Linyanti to Quilimane. While exploring the Zambesi River he discovered the famous Victoria Falls in November 1855. "The results in geography and in natural science in all its departments were abundant and accurate; his observations necessitated a reconstruction of the map of Central Africa. When Livingstone began his work in Africa the map was virtually blank from Kuruman to Timbuktu and nothing but envy or ignorance can throw any doubt on the originality of his discoveries." Encyc. Britan. 11th Edn. Livingstone also here gives an accurate account of the tsetse fly and of the disease produced in cattle following its bite. "Delightful reading." DNB Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay 3034. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 341. cfAbbey Travel 347. cfHosken p. 126 1st Issue. Harper & Brothers unknown books
18585138New York: Harper & Brothers 1858. Fair/David Livingstone 1813-73 undertook three great journeys through Africa exploring vast regions unknown to Europeans. Appalled at the terrible effects of the slave trade on African life he became a fierce abolitionist. His "Missionary Travels" was first published in London 1857 and in New York and Philadelphia the following year. . 8vo 24 cm; xxiv 755 pages including engraved frontispiece portrait wood engraved plates and 3 folding maps and plans. Original blind-stamped cloth brittle and torn away from lower half of spine. Rubbed at corners and along extremities. Foxing on some plates. See Printing and the Mind of Man 341 London 1857 edition. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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 Yearsà 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. ìThree 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 engravingsî Norman Library. ìLivingstoneÃs 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 ërunning sore of Africaà 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 manî Norman Library. David Livingstone 1813-1873 ìbecame 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 blankî 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
18600705New York: Harper & Brothers 1860. Hard Cover. Fine. Thick Octavo. Early American Edition Frontispiece 755pp. 2pp. publisher's catalog 1pp. publisher's note original cloth binding; includes 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 Oceanwith portrait maps and numerous illustrations. An exceptionally clean bright copy fine. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1860010351J.W. Bradley 1860. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near Fine Copy With Light Foxing.First Edition.Excellent Copy. J.W. Bradley Hardcover books
185855354Philadelphia: Bradley Boston: Crown 1858. First edition thus. 8vo pp. 440 adv. Bound in drab brown cloth little worn some light foxing a very good copy. Illustrated. Bradley, Boston: Crown unknown books
18601807Philadelphia: Bradley 1860. Fair/David Livingstone 1813-73 undertook three great journeys through Africa exploring vast regions unknown to Europeans. Appalled at the terrible effects of the slave trade on African life he became a fierce abolitionist. His "Missionary Travels" was first published in London 1857 and in Philadelphia the following year. The edition offered here is the only one issued with color lithograph plates and is rare. 8vo 20 cm; xiv 442 20 pages and 12 chromolithograph plates. Decorated cloth rubbed along joints and corners perishing at spine ends. Foxing on some plates. See Printing and the Mind of Man 341 1857 edition. Bradley hardcover books
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 books
