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LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. 1857

LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. 23 wood-engraved plates by J. W. Whymper, including 3 hand-colored (frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225); steel-engraved portrait of Livingstone; folding geological diagram; 2 folding maps. ix, [1], 8, 8*-8†, 9-711, [1] pages. 8vo, 214x136 mm, contemporary brown leather gilt, spine ends, raised bands, and joints rubbed; heavy foxing on last preliminary leaf and portrait, minor marginal foxing on some plates, contents otherwise clean. Morocco bookplate on front pastedown ("Hyde Pullen, Esq. presented by his affectionate pupils, Sept. 21st 1858"). London: John Murray, 1857

  • Notes: first edition; issue with additional leaf of text at end of introduction and index at end, and wood-engraved plates apart from the portrait. Garrison-Morton 5269 (for account of the tsetse fly on pages 80-83); Printing and the Mind of Man 341.

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