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Price: US$150.33 + shipping
Description: Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black palm tree illus to spine, black African scene to front board + gilt & black Dr Livingstone I presume meeting illus to front board, dark green coated eps, frontispiece, xxiii + large folding map + 736pp + 8pp book adverts, illus, VG- (archival tape repairs to spine sides, front & rear hinges & spine extrems, bruising & fraying to spine extrems and board edges, some browning to page edges, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$301.63 + shipping
Description: Second edition. Sm. thick 4to., orig. rust cloth, xxiii, 736, 8pp. ads dated "October 1872." With illustrations, maps and an original photographic frontis. This copy has been professionally rebacked with the original spine laid down, new pastedowns and e/papers o/w a better than very good copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$668.46 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO20246623: 1872. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Quelques rousseurs. 736 +8 PAGES. En anglais. Corps de l'ouvrage partiellement détâché de la couverture. Frontispice en sépia, sous serpente (portrait photo contrecollé de l'auteur). Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, dans et hors texte. 4 cartes en noir et blanc, avec parfois quelques touches de couleurs (environ 50x60cm + 60x13cm + 27x39cm + 30x20cm), la plupart avec petite déchirure sur une pliure, une avec bout d'adhésif. Petite déchirure sur une page, en marge du texte. 1er plat et dos illustrés : illustrations en relief + dorure. Titre, auteur et editeur dorés au dos. 3 photos disponibles. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart uncommon first edition of Henry Morton Stanley's vivid account of his discovery of David Livingstone, illustrated throughout. The uncommon first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, three folding maps, twenty-seven plates, and in-text illustrations.Henry Morton Stanley's account of how he found David Livingstone.Stanley searched for Livingstone in Central Africa, setting out to Zanzibar in 1871, eventually finding the lost explorer in November 1871 in Ujiji, in present day Tanzania.This is an exciting and embellished account of an important voyage that garnered a lot of media attention at the time.Stanley is best remembered today for his finding Livingstone, and for working as an agent for King Leopold II in the Congo.Collated, bound without one map.Eight pages of adverts to the rear. Smartly rebound with panels of the original cloth to the front board. Externally, smart. A little rubbing to the original boards and spine label. A few light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Faint small tide mark to the head of a few pages. Closed tear to page 87/88. Folding maps are edge worn with some small closed tears. Bound without one map. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: The second state of the first edition and an early issue, formatted as the first edition and probably just a continued issuance of the first with a new type slug on the title-page, stating "second edition". With 28 full page illustrations, 26 illustrations in the text, 6 maps and plans (including one large folding map). Thick, large 8vo, publishers original brick-red cloth elaborately and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the cover and spine. xxiii, 736, 8 pp ads. A very pleasing, handsome and solid copy of this handsome book, unusually sturdy, the cloth bright and clean, the gilt and black decorations in fine order, unusually clean and fresh, the rear inner hinge sometime mended, light wear to the tips. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE AUTHORS FIRST BOOK AND THE LANDMARK WORK THAT SECURED STANLEYS REPUTATION. The text of the first edition of this formidable book was often reprinted and remains to this day one of the consummate works in the historical interpretation of most important Victorian English forays into and explorations of Africa . The quest to recover David Livingstone is one of the most famous travel adventures and manhunts in history. By 1870, Livingstone had been missing for long enough that it was generally accepted that he had died somewhere in Central Africa. However, James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the "New York Herald," was convinced that Livingstone was still alive, and dispatched a richly laden H.M. Stanley to find him. Stanley embarked on his quest on March 12, 1871, and after overcoming "innumerable difficulties," he found a discouraged and disheartened Livingstone at Ujiji on November 10. Stanley then uttered the oft-quoted line "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" (that scene is depicted on the cover of this book) and helped to renew the good doctors hope. The two soon set off on an exploration of the north end of Lake Tanganyika and eventually discovered that the Rusizi runs into it and not out of it. Stanley left Livingstone well-provisioned and spiritually inspired on March 15, 1872 and came back to England and shortly published this "picturesque narrative" of his experiences, helping to secure his reputation as a "leader of men and an explorer of great promise." Stanleys travels on this first expedition not only made his literary reputation, but also laid the geographical groundwork for his subsequent journey (narrated in "Through the Dark Continent"), and gave him the tremendous practical experience in African travel that made his third expedition, to rescue Emin Pash (narrated in "In Darkest Africa"), such a success.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Second English Edition. AN EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION COPY. Inscribed at the time of publication on a slip of paper affixed to front pastedown, "To my dear friend John H. Goodenow Esq U.S. Consul to Constantinople from Henry M. Stanley The Author London Nov 5 1872." Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the explorer and journalist, was commissioned by his employer, the New York Herald to mount an expedition to Africa to find the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone. Stanley found Livingstone in November 1871, where he famously said (or perhaps not),"Dr. Livingstone, I presume." The trip brought Stanley fame and fortune. His first account of the expedition was published in July 1872. The recipient, John Goodenow (1833-1906) was from a prominent legal and political family in Maine. In 1864 he was appointed as consul general in Constantinople and became secretary of the legation in Turkey in 1873. It was in his capacity as a senior diplomat in the Ottoman Empire that brought him in contact with Stanley. Stanley, traveling with two other men, made plans to travel through Turkey to Asia and China. Two weeks into their journey they found themselves embroiled in a violent encounter with local Turks. Stanley was eventually able to obtain the assistance of Goodenow, who secured compensation for their treatment. Bound in original brown cloth with embossed design on spine and front cover, with gilt illustration of two men meeting with the caption "D, Livingstone I presume." Boards are chipped, bumped and spine has chip to top left edge. Rear cover watermarked, but binding is nicer than it sounds. Hinges are weak but text block is tight. The end papers are chipped and the rear hinge has pulled open, and the front folding map is detached from text block except for part that is still attached but torn away from the rest of the map.Later ownership signature on half-title. Frontispiece is a mounted photograph of Stanley. Full and partial page illustrations throughout. Four folding maps. Overall in very good condition. 736 pages including index plus 8 page publisher's catalog. TRAV/091213.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.