Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa: a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loana ..., thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.
1860 · Philadelphia
by Livingstone, David.
Philadelphia: Bradley, 1860. Fair. 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).
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. (Inventory #: 1807)
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. (Inventory #: 1807)