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Price: US$61.57 + shipping
Description: A fine facsimile edition photographically reproduced from the first edition of 1857, lavishly illustrated and with two fold-out maps. Leather bound with orange panels to the spine and orange and gilt frames to the front cover, gilt lettering and all edges gilt. yellow silk book marker, reproduction marbled endpapers with the Ex Libris bookplate of Hilary Shaw. Octavo. pp. 712 with 47 illustrations. A book in Fine condition.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$147.03 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Textblock in good condition with only minor foxing. Spine cracked from top to bottom. Folding Map included
Seller: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, Switzerland
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 711 pp. with fold-out frontispiece and map of South Africa. Hardcover, rebound in red morocco over cloth, top edge-gilt, by Bayntun. The binding stained. Lacks folding map of Livingstone's routes.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The frontispiece and two maps at the back are facsimiles, all other plates and illustrations are present and original. Bound in quarter leather. With a Hawkshead Institute bookplate under the front board. The boards are shelf rubbed, edge worn and marked, but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owner's stamp markings under the front board along with mild, age-related marking and foxing throughout. The text is neat, legible and complete. The binding is sound. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: pp. ix, 687. Thick 8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbleds boards. With folding lithographed frontispiece of Victoria Falls (signed in the plate by Whymper), a steel engraving of the author facing page 1, (untinted) full-page engravings and line drawings in the text, and two folding maps tabbed-in at the end. Three page 8s, second marked with an asterisk, and third with 'dagger'. No advertisements at end of book. Three book plates of previous owners: the first, a small (one inch by one inch) armorial leather label, is of Robert Hoe (1839-1909, a New York printing press manufacturer, book collector and founder of the Grolier Club. The second, a more conventional armorial bookplate printed on paper, is of Lewis Montgomery Bond, a Philadelphia tea merchant. The third, a printed label affixed to the inside of the rear board, is of Charles Williston McAlpin (1865-1942), a member of a prominent family involved in the industrial and social development of New York City in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. The extremities of the boards are modertaely rubbed, as is the marbled paper on the front board. The hinges are tight, and the contents tightly bound and free of foxing or soiling. Overall, an interesting association copy of the second state of the first edition in good+, to very good, condition.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$250.51 + shipping
Description: 230mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). xii, 687pp, + index and ads. 45 b/w illustrations, 2 fold-out plates, 1 fold-out map [of 2]. Adverts dated 1 November 1857. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed with corner and edge wear. Spine rubbed with outer joint and end wear. Illustration at page 332 torn. Map missing from rear pocket. Ownership details on verso of fep and on title page
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$258.46 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Physically 8¾" x 5½" (1.6 kg); (ix) 711pp; Index; Includes: Line drawings; Ribbon markers (1); Black & white plates; Tables; Fold-out maps; All edges gilt; Folding map frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195284|| Condition: Good. School prize binding heavily rubbed with both boards now near detached. The contents complete, clean and tight.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$274.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, later state without the plates in lithograph. Complete with the 24 engraved plates, folding frontis, portrait, folding chart and two maps, one loosely inserted in the rear pocket. Original publisher's cloth neatly rebacked. Previous owner's name on title page, the frontis has one old tape repair and the map in the rear pocket is repaired with tape to the joints, with browning. A very good copy overall.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$282.19 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed. 2nd Issue. x + 687pp. + 8pp. publ. adverts (dated November 1, 1857). Folding frontis., port., 23 plates, folding plan, 2 folding maps including 1 in rear pocket, 19 ills. Some light browning, hinges taped, sm. tear to rear pocket, original gilt lettered brown embossed cloth, some marking and fraying, recased, bright copy. P.M.M. 341; Abbey Travel 347; Theal p. 178; Mendelssohn Vol. 1., pp.908.; Printing and the Mind of Man, 341. 'Probably no volume upon South Africa has been more widely circulated than this, and its merits are unquestionably of a very high order.' Theal, p.178. US$279
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.60 + shipping
Description: 23cm x 16cm [Med. 8vo]. x, 687pp, 8pp [adverts], Original Blind-stamp brown cloth with gilt to spine [worn to top & bottom of spine, small tear to front outer hinge, corners & edges have some wear] Edges Untrimmed. Engrvings [some foxing] - Folding Frontis. Author's Portriat, & Maps at End. 43 Text & Full Page Illustrations. Inner hinges have some wear/split. Binding Tight. Protected by clear wrappers. A Good copy consistent with age.
Seller: Handsworth Books PBFA, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.01 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Size: 8vo <9 3/4". x + 688pp + 8 ads. Hinges cracking. Chips to spine ends with some loss to top. Endpapers browned slightly, text block clean. Edges browned. Occasional creasing to page corners. Corners bumped. All plates present except for folding map in pouch at rear which is absent. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; South Africa; 19th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 45117. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$307.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A rebound first edition copy of David Livingstone's travelogue through South Africa, with a folding frontispiece, illustrations, and a folding map. First edition, rebound in blue cloth.Illustrated with a folding frontispiece, twenty-four black-and-white plates, one folding plate, in-text illustrations, and a folding map of South Africa with Dr Livingstone's travel routes to rear. 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' by David Livingstone is a written recollection of the author's travels and experiences while traversing various different regions of Africa. Livingstone's decision to publish the travelogue with John Murray was seen as an unconventional choice, but it quickly became a bestseller. This text is said to include field science alongside 'exceptionally sympathetic descriptions of African people'.David Livingstone was a famous British physician, explorer, and Christian missionary. He spent much of his life trying to solve an 'age-old mystery' about the Nile River that would bring him the fame to end the African Slave Trade. Unfortunately, his explorations ultimately led to a larger colonial presence in Africa.Collated, complete. Rebound in an institutional cloth binding Externally, smart. Minimal marks to boards. Small amount of wear to extremities. A bit of fading along top of joints. Paste downs are age-toned, with remnants of library stamp on front pastedown. Some marks to both pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and very clean, with minimal age-toning to margins. A damp stain on plate facing page one. A bit of spotting, particularly to first and last few pages. Page repairs to title page, dedication page, and preface. Library stamps to title page as well as blank sides of plates. Plates, including folding plate, are very bright and clean. Folding map to rear is very bright and clean, with a couple of spots to bottom edge. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: First edition, assumed first printing. Presumed original binding - quarter leather with marbled boards but with wear to the rear board and spine, including loss of title panel on the spine. Contents good, with a couple of front pages removed and the frontispiece etching of Mosyoatunya (Victoria Falls) incomplete. All 47 plates present (though 1 map detached). Advert pages seemingly removed.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Livingstone, David:. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.. London: John Murray, 1857.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover book, full leather binding with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt -stamped Rugby School decoration to boards. Marbled end papers. Previous owners signature to end paper with date 1857. 711pp, h: 23cm.With 47 engraved illustrations as plates and in-text, incl. portrait of the author, and map by John Arrowsmith showing South Africa and Dr.Livingstone's route. Both Maps of Livingstone's routes are tipped in at rear of volume. Slight sunning to spine but still a very handsome volume.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: John Murray, London. 1857. Rebound in half tan calf with brown cloth boards, gilt type to contrasting red morocco panel to spine; new marbled end-papers. Fold-out frontis. map of South Africa and route of Livingstone in pocket at rear; plates. 711 pages. Index. Foxing to pre-lim portrait of Livingstone o/w very clean and sound.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$331.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt, uncut (hinges a little tender with some discrete evidence of repair, a little splitting to cloth along lower hinge, cloth worn at headcap & extremities, prev. owner's name to blank prelim., some spotting to tissue-guarded portrait, a few marks elsewhere, otherwise clean & complete); pp. x, 688 (last colophon) + 8 p. publisher's catalogue, dated November 1st 1857 with a folding frontispiece, 23 plates ( inc. engraved portrait), title page vignette plus several text illustrations, 3 folding maps ( 1 in pocket at end) and an appendix. Abbey 347, this corresponding to that cited by Abbey in the British Museum, with plates 1 and 8 being wood engravings (not tinted lithographs), and the folding frontispiece signed J.W.Whymper. The state of the plates for this edition varies considerably. A good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$333.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 3/4 black polished calf & cloth (hardcover, leather), calf label, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, ix, [i], 687 pp. Fold-out lithograph frontis in color of Victoria Falls, portrait, fold-out maps, plates. In 1855, Livingstone found and named Victoria Falls. The following year, he reached the mouth of the Zambezi on the Indian Ocean, and in so doing, became the first European to cross the width of southern Africa. Very Good; some occasional light foxing, otherwise very clean and tight. Discovery & Exploration, Leather, African History, Africa, South Africa.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London 1857 1st John Murray. Hardcover. Title continues "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." Octavo, 687pp., folding frontis engraving by Whympe, 45 plates including steel engraved portrait of Livingstone, two large folding maps, contemporary 3/4 leather with marbled boards and fully gilt decorated spine. Owner bookplate (C. F. Rowsell.) Good, marbled paper worn off board edges, outer hinges just beginning to crack.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$359.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rebacked. New endpapers. Heavy foxing to prelims and some foxing to rear pages.Boards slightly rubbed and sunned at spine. Corners slightly bumped. Small nick to rear top edge of cover. Some pages have some foxing, but are otherwise clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
David Livingstone. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. John Murray, 1857.
Price: US$378.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Murray, 1857. 1st Ed. x + 687pp. + 8pp. publ. adverts (dated November 1, 1857). Folding frontis., port., 23 plates, folding plan, 2 folding maps including 1 in rear pocket, 19 ills.all as called for. Some light browning, hinges splitting but firm, original gilt lettered brown cloth, some small ink stains to rear board and bumping to spine & corners.
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$378.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, ix + 687 pp, rare state with three page eights. In the first two issues, the frontispiece and two other plates are tinted lithographs- Livingstone was dissatisfied and had them re-engraved on wood for the rest of the edition in a third state. Folding frontispiece, engraved portrait by William Holl after Henry Phillips, 22 wood engravings, folding printed table with wood-engraved illustration, 1 (of 2) folding lithographed map by John Arrowsmith with route coloured by hand in red (at rear), and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary tan half calf, with spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers, inner hinges strengthened. Spine laid down. Some wear to corners and to spine. "Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone's travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lake Ngami, while accompanied by his wife and William Cotton Oswell. Oswell and the author continued their journey, discovering the Zambesi River, and, eventually, the Victoria Falls." - Czech. In the period between 1849 and 1856, his explorations took him to Lake Ngami across the Kalahari Desert, to the Zambezi River, and from there west to the Atlantic Ocean at Loanda (today's Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola). He turned down a chance to return to England, but entrusted his reports, maps, and letters for transport. The ship went down with all hands except one, and all of Livingstone's papers were lost, forcing him to re-create everything. He followed his track back to Linyanti (in Botswana) and then decided to assess the possibilities of the Zambezi as a highway into the heart of Africa by following it to the Indian Ocean. He reached Victoria Falls in 1855, confirming what he had heard from natives for many years. "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight," he wrote. It was the only site in Africa that he named with English words. Livingstone reached Quilimane on the coast of Mozambique on 20 May 1856, but he got there by cutting across a loop of the Zambezi to Tete, inadvertently missing the Kebrabasa Rapids, a drop of about six hundred feet. Hence, he was unaware that the river was not navigable when he arrived in London at the end of the year to promote its potential to the British government. In the meantime, the LMS had informed him that his expeditions were not the kind of gospel work it expected of him, and he resigned the next year. In England, he was feted as a national hero. The present book, written in six months, became an immediate best-seller, with seven editions published in rapid succession." (Delaney). Czech p97; Mendelssohn I, 908-910; Abbey Travel 347; PMM 341.
Seller: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB & IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.62 + shipping
Description: TO THE EASTERN OCEAN. With prtrait,maps by Arrowsmith,and numerous illustrations. In-8,moderna e modesta legatura in tutta tela rossa con tassello con titolo al dorso,pp.711 e 8 pagine in fine aggiunte con data 1 novembre 1857(catalogo di Edizioni Murray), 2 carte geografiche piu' volte ripiegate,un ritratto dell'autore,una veduta ripiegata delle cascate Vittoria e 22 xilografie a tutta pagina fuori testo.Fioriture sparse alle prime ed ultime pagine del volume ed alcune anche internamente,ampia gora al ritratto dell'Autore inciso in acciaio,complessivamente buono stato di conservazione.
Seller: LIBRERIA ACHILLE, TRIESTE, TS, Italy
David Livingstone. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$384.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Englischsprachige Ausgabe. " .Including 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 Ocean". David Livingstone ( 1813 - 1873) schottischer Missionar und Afrikaforscher --- Hier sein Bericht über 16 Jahre in Afrika. --- 8° priv. Lw. mit montiertem Rückenschild, IX + 687 Seiten + 8 Seiten Verlagswerbung. Zahlreiche einfbg. Abb, ganzseitig und im Text, 1 gef. Abb. 3 einfbg. gefaltene Karten. -- Name auf erneuertem Vorsatz, Papier leicht gebräunt, wenige Blätter leicht fingerfleckig, 1 Bogen in der Fadenheftung gelockert, sonst guter Zustand. TransferWise welcome.
Seller: Antiquariat Lastovka GbR, Freilassing, Germany
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition, 2nd Issue. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 687, 8. Original publisher's textured brown cloth, lettered gilt on spine. First edition, second issue with 45 untinted plates as called for and two maps (one folded in rear pocket). Small, discreet restoration at tips of spine, otherwise very good indeed. Excellent condition.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. (x), 687, (1), pp., bound without the advertisements. Later nineteenth century green quarter calf over dark blue-green boards, spine faded to brown, blind ruled compartments, gilt lettered direct to two sections, ownership inscription of Owen Jones, St. Ishmael's Vicarage to the front free endpaper dated October 1858 to the front free endpaper, his name and that of his wife Augusta Frederica inscribed and dated (1884) to the head of the title page. Folding tinted lithographic frontispiece, portrait, 23 plates - 21 wood engraved and 2 tinted lithographs, 19 engravings in the text, 1 folding section plus 2 folding maps, one in a pocket at the rear. Spine faded to brown, some light edge wear, occasional foxing, mostly on and adjacent to the plates, a decent copy overall. Covering the first of Livingstone's three major expeditions, in which he followed the Zambesi river, discovering the Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east. "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." (Printing and the Mind of Man 341). Abbey, Travel, 347. Mendelssohn, p. 908. The issue points on the early appearances of this work are open to conjecture with no definitive precedence established between copies with some tinted lithographs, as here, or those solely illustrated with wood engravings. However, this copy is without the leaf numbered 8*, suggesting it is an earlier issue.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition appears to have been rebound in deep red cloth; NOT ex-library. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece, additional folding frontispiece of Victoria Falls, two folding maps bound in at rear, and the 43 other illustrations called for (to total 47) are all present and bound in, though all are B&W -- none in color save that the author's routes are traced in red to both folding maps at rear. There are also NO publisher's advertisements at rear. Page edges marbled. 687 pp.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half green morocco with green boards, titled in gilt, 5 spine bands, marbled endpages and edges. First edition, first issue. With 25 plates, 2 tinted, folding panorama frontis, 2 folding maps with small tear and folding chart. Sound binding. Covers rubbed and small bubble to front panel. Minimal foxing, crisp pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 687 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$417.59 + shipping
Description: In-8°, pp. IX, (1), 688, 8 di catalogo editoriale, legatura originale (firmata da Edmonds & Remnants) in piena percallina marrone con bordura ornamentale a secco lungo il perimetro dei piatti. Titolo in oro e decori a secco al dorso. Una vignetta al titolo raffigurante una mosca tsetse; antiporta xilografica ripiegata con veduta delle Cascate Vittoria incisa da Whymper. Un ritratto di Livingstone inciso su acciaio f.t. da Holl, 24 tavv. incise f.t., di cui due ripiegate (mappa del Sud Africa in b.n. ripiegata in fine con l'itinerario di LIvingstone indicato in rosso e sezione ideale del "Great Central Plateau" dell Africa del Sud. Qualche lieve fioritura. Bell'esemplare. Prima edizione, seconda tiratura (che si distingue dalla prima in quanto l'antiporta è firmata da Whymper e si presenta in bianco e nero anziché a colori), di uno dei libri più celebri di Livingstone. L'opera, cui sono premesse delle rievocazioni autobiografiche, fa il punto sugli straordinari viaggi di Livingstone attraverso il Continente Nero, di cui fu forse il massimo esploratore, con una pletora di notizie geografiche, geologiche ed etnografiche, e narra i suoi sedici anni di permanenza in Africa Australe, con la scoperta, discendendo il corso dello Zambesi, delle cascate che, chiamate dagli indigeni "Moasi a Tunia", egli ribattezzò Vittoria in onore della Regina d'Inghilterra. 'Livingstone's (1813-1873) 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. Livingstone.[was] one of the great characters of the nineteenth century, embodying all the virtues of the Victorian ages" (P.M.M., n. 341). "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, evokes earlier accounts of southern Africa, notably by Philip and Moffat, but Livingstone's book stands out from these by reason of its intellectual breadth. Throughout his sixteen years in Africa, Livingstone had kept himself supplied with reading matter on religion, medicine, natural history, and physical anthropology. He had, moreover, maintained an extensive correspondence with friends made in Glasgow, Ongar, and London. And from 1851, aware of his growing reputation as an explorer, he kept a journal. Here he recorded a miscellany of ruminations and minute observation which attest to a wide-ranging curiosity about the human race and the natural world, and owe much to his medical training. When he came to write his book, he enriched a stirring narrative, told in conversational style, with insights acquired by informed eyes and ears, as well as with shafts of caustic humour" (Oxford DNB). Mendelssohn I, p.908-910. Gay, p.226. Czech, p. 97. Abbey Travel, 347. Hess and Coger 3073 (ed. 1877).
Seller: LIBRERIA ANTIQUARIA PIEMONTESE, TORINO, Italy
Price: US$423.28 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed., 2nd Issue. x + 687pp. + [i] + 8pp. publ. adverts (dated November 1, 1857). Folding frontis., port., 23 plates, folding plan, 2 folding maps including 1 in rear pocket, 19 ills. Some light browning and soiling, minor tape markings to front e.ps., paper split to upper firm hinge, lower hinge neatly taped, original gilt lettered brown embossed cloth, minor mark to upper board, corners sl. frayed, spine sl. chipped. P.M.M. 341; Abbey Travel 347; Theal p. 178; Mendelssohn Vol. 1., pp.908.; Printing and the Mind of Man, 341. 'Probably no volume upon South Africa has been more widely circulated than this, and its merits are unquestionably of a very high order.' Theal, p.178. US$419
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Ref.L6 ) Half leather bound with green leather spine and corners bound to marbled paper covered boards. Five band raised spine. Rubbing to spine hinges and corners. Some wear to head and heel of spine. Top right spine hinge starting to crack but generally tight binding. Full red mottled page edging. Foxing to edge of first blank page. Slighty yellowing to prelim edges and a couple of light smudges. Main contents are otherwise very good, unmarked and bright for age. Both front and rear maps are present and in good, untorn condition. 2nd rear map has some dark foxes to edges and both rear maps have some lighter yellowish foxing all over. Rear endpapers also with tan foxes. Overall a very good copy, well-bound, generally unmarked and with complete set of maps and illustrations.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. By David Livingstone and printed in London by John Murray. 1857, 1st edition, 2nd state, 685 pp, 9x 6, 8vo, modern hardcover rebind. In good rebound condition, with modern spine and boards affixed to text block. Hinges remain tight and text block remains bound well. Previous bookplates affixed to front pastedown. Light markings and marginalia at front. Nicely illustrated with a variety of black-and-white sketches and plates throughout. Includes two foldout maps at rear, with the second and larger one torn around edges and folds. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce and nicely rebound edition of the earlier African travels of David Livingstone (1813-1873), a British missionary and one of the most prominent European explorers to Africa in his time. COLH1857GMNQ
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Livingstone, David. MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SCARCE second issue with lithotint plates that are missing in later printings. Rest of the title is, "Including 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 Ocean". This is a landmark Africa travel book that made the author's reputation as an explorer as well as missionary. And it remains a very good read. Pages x, 687 plus 8 pages publisher adverts. Abbey Travel 347. Hess-Coger 3068. Mendelsohn I,908. Three quarter green morocco binding, with green cloth boards and marbled endpapers. On the spine, raised bands, gilt decoration in the panels and bright gilt title. Also marbled page edges to match the endpapers! Clean and tight inside, with no foxing. No prior owner marks. All plates and maps present as called for in the list of illustrations, and in Abbey Travel, including three fine lithotint plates that were omitted in later printings. Maps in fine condition.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$497.41 + shipping
Description: 436 pp including index, marbled end-papers, b&w engraved folding frontispiece, b&w engraved plates and illustrations, folding map at rear, gilt edges, boards rubbed, front inner hinge cracked, else very good copy in green, full-calf binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on spine.
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
Price: US$497.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt, uncut (professionally rebacked with original spine laid on, corners reinforced, the cloth a trifle rubbed; hinges strengthened, closed tear to fore-edge of pocket at end neatly repaired, signature dated 1858 at head of title page, ex-library with one ink stamp at foot of p. 345, and faint trace of same stamp on the title page, a little light foxing & occasional soiling; faint label removal mark at foot of backstrip); pp. x, 688 (last colophon) + 8 p. publisher's catalogue, dated November 1st 1857 with a folding frontispiece, 23 plates ( inc. engraved portrait), title page vignette plus several text illustrations, 3 folding maps (1 in pocket at end) and an appendix. Abbey 347, this corresponding to that cited by Abbey in the British Museum, with plates 1 and 8 being wood engravings (not tinted lithographs), and the folding frontispiece signed J.W.Whymper. The state of the plates for this edition varies considerably. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$513.07 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. ix + [i] + 687 + [1] pp. Bound in contemporary half calf over purple boards, gilt; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt, with contrasting green morocco title label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. A little wear to extremities and slight sunning to top of front board. Portrait has edge foxed and some occasional traces of foxing elsewhere; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 24 wood engraved plates, including folding frontispiece and portrait of author, one folding letterpress and engraved landscape section, 2 folding maps with one in pocket at end and by 19 wood engravings in text. Decorated by title page vignette. First edition of the central southern African narrative of David Livingstone, missionary, scientist and explorer, in which he describes his residence in the area and his crossing of the continent from the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans. This is a variant of the first edition with no extra page after 8 and wood engravings replacing two tinted lithographs. (Printing and the Mind of Man 341). TRAVEL AFRICA TRAVEL EXPLORATION AFRICA 19TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Description: 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 LivingstoneâÂÂs route across Africa.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Livingstone, David.. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.. John Murray., 1857.
Price: US$545.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ' Including 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 Ocean '. ix + 687 pp + 8 pp publishers catalogue ( dated November 1, 1857 ) plus all plates and maps as called for. Tape to verso of foldg frontis ( no tears ) foldg map at rear slightly torn at joint. Slight foxing and thumb marking to prelims. POS at head of title page. Very tight. Very good hardback in publishers original blind stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. Pp. 687 + adverts. First Edition. In very good condition. Original brown cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt title on the spine. Light shelf-wear as expected with age and handling; slight bumping on the corners and very faint tears on the top and bottom of the spine. Pages themselves are clean with light foxing; no significant marks or creases. Protective tissue guard over an engraved portrait of Livingstone, with a reproduction of Livingstone's signature. Complete with 47 engraved plates including frontispiece and fold-out map at the back. First blank page blind-stamped in top right corner by previous bookseller. David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. 'Missionary Travels' is 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. 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.
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$587.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First ed. Large 8vo. x, 689pp. Folding tinted lithographed frontispiece. 44 plates and text-illus. 2 folding maps, 1 in rear pockes. Original cloth, rebinding, slightly rubbed, private inscription on flyreaf. Y22100127
Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., x, 687 pp., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait (stained), 2 folding maps, 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text, contemporary green half calf gilt, red morocco label, lightly rubbed, a very good copy. First of Livingstone's three major expeditions in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before (PMM). Abbey Travel 347; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p.908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$609.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Missionary Travels and researches in South Africa inc 16 years residence in the interior of Africa. This is a 1st edition and I believe to be 1st state as it does not have the index or the pages of adverts that the later issues have, all the tipped in plates are blank on the verso, all plates, Ills and maps are extant. The book is in a handsome full leather, school prize binding from St. Peter's School York, the divinity prize for J. Kilmer Clarke with the prize sticker and bookplate tipped in. recently rebacked with the old spine laid down, the front boards have a gilt embossed design of St. Peters School, a gilt band to the edge of both front and rear boards. five raised bands on spine with embossed device between each band and the school emblem on the top. Titles in Gilt on red to spine. A small amount of browning to prelims else text is clean and bright. A really lovely copy. Scans on request.
Seller: Jack Ryder Books, Liskeard, United Kingdom
David Livingstone. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$634.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of this important travel work on South Africa by influential explorer David Livingstone, an illustrated copy in the original cloth binding. First edition - issue with lithographs facing pages 66 and 225, and no extra leaf after page 8. Eight pages of adverts to the rear, dated November 1st 1967.Illustrated with a folding lithograph plate to the frontispiece, three folding maps, one folding plate, twenty-four plates, two of which are lithographs, and in-text engravings.Collated, complete.'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' shows the intellectual breadth of the author in his descriptions of his experiences working as a missionary and travelling in South Africa.Livingstone was well educated on Africa, having spent his sixteen years there reading extensively on religion, medicine, anthropology, and natural history. It was during these sixteen years that he decided to keep a journal on his experiences, knowing that his reputation as an explorer was rising.This work is written in a conversational style with humorous tones. He offers a fantastic, enlightening, and detailed account of the lives of people in South Africa in the mid nineteenth century.The work was very popular upon publication, seeing twelve-thousand copies of the first impression being sold out before publication.David Livingstone was a Victorian hero for his work with the London Missionary Society, as a medical pioneer and explorer in Africa. This book gives great detail into his explorations, including an insight into the years in which is was missing and presumed dead by British authorities. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, worn, with a tear to the front joint. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards. Spine is a little faded. A little light rubbing to the boards and spine. Hinges are tender. Bookseller label to the paste downs. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional spot and handling mark. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp.x, 687, [8 (advertisements)], with a folding wood-engraved frontispiece, a steel-engraved portrait of the author by William Holl after Henry Phillips, 21 wood-engraved plates by Whymper et al., a folding wood-engraved geological section, and two folding lithographic maps by John Arrowsmith with routes added by hand in red (one loose in pocket on lower pastedown, as issued); illustrations in the text; a few isolated spots, loose folding map slightly creased and dust-soiled along one edge, but a good copy in the original brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants of London with their ticket on rear pastedown; slightly rubbed and bumped, extremities a little frayed, small piece of cloth missing at head of lower joint, hinges split.First edition. 'Livingstone's 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' (Printing and the Mind of Man). Livingstone's work also alerted Victorian England to the extent of the slave trade in Central and Eastern Africa, and it corrected the popular misconception that the slave trade was dying out in Africa; through his researches and writings the Portuguese slave trade was virtually wiped out in Angola. It was also scientifically important, and provided an accurate account of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) and the effect of its bite on cattle (Livingstone's contemporaries believed that it was harmless to humans, which it may have been at that time; as he comments on p.81, 'a most remarkable feature in the bite of the tsetse is its perfect harmlessness in man and wild animals'). This account on pp.80-83 is complemented by an illustration on p.571, which is repeated as a vignette on the title-page. The illustrations of the first edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa are known in three states: one state has a wood-engraved frontispiece and all of the plates are wood-engraved; another state has a tinted lithographic frontispiece and two lithographic plates (one tinted), all printed by W.West; and a third state has a tinted lithographic frontispiece and two tinted lithographic plates, all printed by Day & Son. The letterpress is also found in two settings: in one the text ends on p.711 and pp.'8*' and '8+' are inserted between pp.8 and 9, and in the other the text ends on p.687 (as here); these settings are found with either a wood-engraved or lithographic frontispiece. All of these permutations of text and plates are known with a Murray catalogue dated 1 November 1857 bound in at the end (present here). Although Abbey suggested that the wood-engraved frontispiece indicated the first state of the plates, since the British Library copyright copy includes it, it seems more likely that Murray employed a number of firms to produce the plates required for the large first edition of twelve thousand copies simultaneously, and that therefore no sequence of priority can be assigned to the different states certainly, the entry in Murray's estimate book entry for Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (now in the National Library of Scotland) suggests that the production of the lithographic plates was divided between the two lithographic printing houses of Day and West, with the former printing five thousand sets and the latter three thousand, indicating that some four thousand copies are illustrated throughout with wood-engraved plates (cf.NLS MS 42721, p.219). Abbey 347; PMM 341. Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$677.25 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, later issue. Fold. front., plates, 2 maps (1 in rear pocket), illus., 8pp cata. (November 1st, 1857). Orig. brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, blocked in blind; a few neat repairs. Booksellers' ticket of H. Stone, Banbury on leading pastedown. Printing & the Mind of Man 341. A nice copy of one of the most popular travel books of the nineteenth century covering in great depth the details of Livingstone's first major expedition. Livingstone returned to Britain in order to publish this book and generate support for his ideas, which included navigating the Zambezi River and providing Africa with its own centralised trade highway.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$677.25 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, later issue. Fold. front., plates, 2 maps (1 in rear pocket), illus., 8pp cata. (November 1st, 1857). Orig. brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, blocked in blind; sympathetically recased, sl. rubbed. Booksellers' ticket of Polthorp, Brighton on leading pastedown, ad. leaf tipped in to leading f.e.p. v.g. Printing & the Mind of Man 341. A nice copy of one of the most popular travel books of the nineteenth century covering in great depth the details of Livingstone's first major expedition. Livingstone returned to Britain after his first mission in order to publish this book and generate support for his ideas, which included navigating the Zambezi River and providing Africa with their own centralised trade highway.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$729.54 + shipping
Description: to the Eastern Ocean. . London: John Murray, 1857. Roy. thick 8vo. Orig. cloth (skilfully rebacked). Spine gilt. (x, 688, 8pp.). With fold. frontisp., title-vign., full-page plates, text-illusts., 1 fold. plan, and 2 fold. maps of which one in end-pocket. Fine and complete copy of the rare 1st ed. of this classic of exploration.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$737.54 + shipping
Description: First edition. Third state with the plates opposite pages 66 and 225 being black and white engravings rather than tinted lithographs. Octavo. pp [x], 687. Illustrations, including folding frontispiece, tissue-guarded portrait of the author, two folding maps at rear one of which is in a pocket. At the rear is a publisher's eight page catalogue dated November 1, 1857. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Inner hinges cracked but tight. Small nicks to head and tail of spine. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$747.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: SCARCE early issue. 687 pages plus advertisements, with fold-out frontispiece, one fold-out bound map of south Africa, another multi-panel map in an envelope attached to rpdep depicting Livingstone's route (this map is in FINE condition), numerous black and white plates and illustrations. Catalogue at rear of text dated November 1, 1857. Textured brown cloth with gold titles, top of spine is heavily worn with tears and chips missing, a few tears to tail of spine, corners are bumped and lightly worn, a few light scuffs, tears to endpapers at hinges, foxing to text edges, heavier near boards, Fair/Good.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$753.26 + shipping
Description: 8°, Falttafelfrontispiz, IX (Abb.-Verzeichnis), 1 Stahlstich-Portrait des Autors, 711 S., 8 S. (Verlagswerbung vom 1. Nov. 1857), 44 Abb. (22 ganzseit. Holzstich-Taf.) 2 lithogr.Faltkarten (davon 1 Höhenprofil). 1 weitere lithogr. Faltkarte lose beiliegend in Dokumententlasche., OLwd blindgeprägt, goldgeprägter Rücken, Min. berieben u. min. stockfleckig, Name a. Vors. - schönes Exemplar. Eine von acht bekannten Varianten der ersten Ausgabe. - Die Holzstiche von Josiah Wood Whymper (1813 - 1903) nach Zeichnungen von Teilnehmern der Reise.- 1849 durchwanderte er, von der Missionsstation Kolobeng im Betschuanenland aus, die Wüste Kalahari bis zum Ngamisee. Auf einer neuen Reise 1851 erreichte er den Oberlauf des Sambesi. Seine Frau und Kinder brachte er nach Kapstadt, von wo sie am 23. April 1852 auf einem Segelschiff nach England abreisten. 1853 bis 1856 durchquerte er ganz Südafrika vom Sambesi bis Loanda (Luanda) und zurück bis Quelimane. Dabei entdeckte er im November 1855 für Europa die Victoriafälle des Sambesi. 1600 gr. Schlagworte: Reisen - Afrika
Seller: antiquariat peter petrej - Bibliopolium AG, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
Price: US$795.86 + shipping
Description: Full calf with elaborately decorated spine. ix,711pp. Folding lithograph frontispiece. Portrait, two maps by Arrowsmith and numerous illustrations. A little foxing and some tears to the plates and maps else a god copy. The scarce 1st ed.
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Livingstone, David. MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$801.67 + shipping
Description: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa. ix, [i list of illus.] frontis [foxed], 687, folding map by Arrowsmith [fine], 8pp [pub. cat. dated Nov 1st 1857]. 47 illustrations as called for including full-page wood-engraved plates [fine condition] and the folding map by Arrowsmith in rear envelope present [one fold split.]. Original brown cloth, gilt. Blind stamped patterned borders to spine and both boards. 2nd issue with the un-tinted plates and brown end-papers. Attractive bookplate of John Slater, Seaforth, Liverpool to inside board. END-PAPERS CRACKED but sound and upper rear joint started [4cms]. COMPLETE ORIGINAL COPY. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS Size: roy 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-687, [1] pp. Bound without the publisher's advertisements. Half contemporary green calf over textured cloth boards, spine in six compartments with a brown morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a fold-out chromolithograph frontispiece, with 23 plates, an additional folding plate, and two folding maps at the end of the volume. Also with an engraving of the tse-tse fly on the title page and with other in-text engravings. Completing the title page: "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. Mendelssohn 908. PMM 341. Livingstone's publications are of great importance in the history of travel and exploration. The author is remembered as a passionate missionary, an explorer, and an ardent opponent of the slave trade. This book is an account of Livingstone's exploration of Lake Ngami, the Zambesi River, and Victoria Falls (or Mosioatunya, the name the waterfall had before Livingstone arrived). The author also recounts his conversations and interactions with the chiefs Sebituane and Sekeletu, and includes some ethnographic details of the African people he met during his travels. An attractive example of one of Livingstone's most important books, widely regarded as a classic of its kind and an essential part of any serious collection of books on travel and exploration. Rebacked with the contemporary leather spine laid down, minor rubbing to the corners and some foxing to the plates.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Livingstone, David. MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$955.59 + shipping
Description: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa.ix,[i list of illus.] frontis, 687pp, folding map by Arrowsmith [fine], 8pp [pub. cat. dated Nov 1st 1857]. 47 illustrations as called for including full-page wood-engraved plates [fine condition] and the folding map by Arrowsmith in rear envelope present [no splits]. Original brown cloth, gilt. Owners name and address dated March 5th 1858 in a large but neat ink hand to the blank f.f.e.p. Some light stains to the front end-papers othewrise a fine copy throughout with a unfaded brown blind-stamped original cloth pub. binding. Blind stamped patterned borders to spine and both boards. 2nd issue with the untinted plates and brown end-papers. Bound by Edmonds and Remnants, London. COMPLETE ORIGINAL COPY. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. [The account of David Livingstones first great expedition (1853-56), during which he explored the Zambesi and the Victoria Falls.] Size: roy 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
David Livingstone. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. John Murray, London, 1857.
Price: US$1147.99 + shipping
Description: A rebound first edition copy of this important travel work by David Livingstone, complete with illustrations and folding maps. First edition - issue with lithographs facing pages 66 and 225, and no extra leaf after page 8.Illustrated with a folding plate to the frontispiece, three folding maps, one folding plate, twenty-four plates, and in-text engravings.Collated, complete.'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' shows the intellectual breadth of the author in his descriptions of his experiences working as a missionary and travelling in South Africa.Livingstone was well educated on Africa, having spent his sixteen years there reading extensively on religion, medicine, anthropology, and natural history. It was during these sixteen years that he decided to keep a journal on his experiences, knowing that his reputation as an explorer was rising.This work is written in a conversational style with humorous tones. He offers a fantastic, enlightening, and detailed account of the lives of people in South Africa in the mid nineteenth century.The work was very popular upon publication, seeing twelve-thousand copies of the first impression being sold out before publication.David Livingstone was a Victorian hero for his work with the London Missionary Society, as a medical pioneer and explorer in Africa. This book gives great detail into his explorations, including an insight into the years in which is was missing and presumed dead by British authorities.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, 'The Reverend Thomas Green, B.A., Presented to him by the members of his Bible class as a token of esteem, Ryecroft, 9th December 1857'. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A little rubbing to the spine and extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots, including to the folding maps. A little edge wear to the folding maps. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1282.67 + shipping
Description: First edition. Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted for the scale and complexity of his career in Africa" (ODNB). The book describes the first of his three major expeditions, "in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa" (PMM). This is Bradlow's variant seven: the frontispiece and plates opposite pages 66 and 225 are wood-engravings by Whymper; the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. As many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established: it is now accepted that "the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is not the first issue" (Bradlow). The extra leaf contains information on Moffat's mission at Kuruman and on Livingstone's marriage and the upbringing of his children. Provenance: engraved armorial bookplate of the Doughty family on the front pastedown. Abbey, Travel 347; Howgego IV L39; Mendelssohn I, p. 908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; SABIB III, p. 136. F. R. Bradlow, "The Variants of the 1857 edition", Livingstone 1873-1973, 1973. Octavo. Original moderate brown sand-grain cloth, spine lettered gilt, spine and boards panelled in blind, brown surface-paper endpapers. Wood-engraved folding frontispiece, engraved portrait of Livingstone, 22 wood-engraved plates, folding geological cross section, 2 folding maps (one in endpocket), wood engravings in the text; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Contemporary gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper, with accompanying note in pencil. Spine ends and inner hinges repaired (ends also lightly chipped), minor shelf wear, scattered foxing. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original terracotta sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers. Folding frontispiece and 22 other plates, illustrations to the text, 3 folding maps, one of them in an end-pocket. "Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone's travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lake Ngami, while accompanied by his wife and William Cotton Oswell. Oswell and the author continued their journey, discovering the Zambesi River, and, eventually, the Victoria Falls." - Czech. Abbey Travel 347; Bradlow, "The Variants of the 1857 edition " in Lloyd ed. Livingstone 1873-1973; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p.908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, Original terracotta sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers. Folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, and 22 other plates including lithograph opposite page 225, illustrations to the text, 3 folding maps, one of them in pocket at end. A fine copy. The book covers the first of Livingstone's three major expeditions "in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before" (PMM). Abbey (Travel), 347; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p.908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1591.72 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, engraved portrait and 23 plates (including folding frontispiece view), two folding maps by Arrowsmith at the end of the book, and numerous wood engraved illustrations through the text; in a fine contemporary binding of half black morocco and grained cloth sides, spine gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. The most famous account of African exploration, recording three years spent in the wilderness between 1853-1856. 'Livingstone, one of the great characters of the nineteenth century, embodying all the virtues of the Victorian age, is often remembered more for his qualities as a man than for his achievements as an explorer. Born with no social advantages, it was his courage and boldness of conception, his deep religious feelings and his great powers of endurance that carried him through the trials and hardships of a dedicated life and eventually gained him the honour of burial in Westminster Abbey' (Printing and the Mind of Man, 341). This first edition appeared in various issues. Abbey suggested that those with plates 1 and 8 as wood-engravings -- as in this copy -- preceded those in which they were reprinted as tinted lithographs, while Bradlow argued much the reverse. In any case this very attractive copy has them as wood-engravings and is one of the issues that appeared before the addition of a leaf following p. 8 in which Livingstone later expounded on the subject of his family. Renard seem to have called this variant the third issue, but no reliable order of precedence has been established for the 11 issues that have been identified; Bradlow notes that "the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is not the first issue". . Provenance: With the blind stamp of Walch and Sons, Booksellers, Hobart Town, booksellers in Tasmania from 1846. Mild stains to frontispiece (perhaps due to paper type); otherwise a really fine copy.
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Price: US$1603.34 + shipping
Description: First edition. Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted for the scale and complexity of his career in Africa" (ODNB). The book describes the first of his three major expeditions, "in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa" (PMM). This is Bradlow's variant I: the frontispiece and plate facing page 66 are tinted lithographs by West, and the plate facing page 225 is a black and white lithograph from a sketch by Bell; the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. As many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established: it is now accepted that "the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is not the first issue" (Bradlow). The extra leaf contains information on Moffat's mission at Kuruman and on Livingstone's marriage and the upbringing of his children. Provenance: with the armorial bookplate of Colonel William O'Neill on the front pastedown. Born in Ireland, O'Neill (1800-1869) served with the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War, for which he was awarded a war medal and eight clasps. He later served during the Third Kandyan War in Ceylon. Abbey, Travel 347; Howgego IV L39; Mendelssohn I, p. 908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; SABIB III, p. 136. F. R. Bradlow, "The Variants of the 1857 edition", Livingstone 1873-1973, 1973. Octavo. Original moderate brown sand-grain cloth, spine lettered gilt, spine and boards panelled in blind, pink surface-paper endpapers, top and fore-edge uncut. Folding tinted lithographed frontispiece, engraved portrait of Livingstone, 2 lithographed and 20 wood-engraved plates, folding geological cross section, 2 folding maps (1 in endpocket), wood engravings in the text; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Contemporary and recent bookseller's tickets on front pastedown. A few marks to cloth, binding and inner hinges expertly repaired, endpapers discoloured, minor repair to stub of folding map. A very good copy with cloth bright.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1603.34 + shipping
Description: First edition, probably from the library of the Irish explorer John King (1838-1872), with a gift inscription on the front flyleaf, "To John King with the sincere respects & best wishes of a New Zealand friend. Christmas 1861", from an unknown New Zealand giver. King was a member of the ill-fated Australian Burke and Wills expedition (1860-1). Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century. Livingstone "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted for the scale and complexity of his career in Africa" (ODNB). The book describes the first of his three major expeditions, "in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa" (PMM). This is Bradlow's variant three: the frontispiece and plates opposite pages 66 and 225 are wood-engravings by Whymper; the extra leaf after page 8 is present. As many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established: it is now accepted that "the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is not the first issue" (Bradlow). The extra leaf contains information on Moffat's mission at Kuruman and on Livingstone's marriage and the upbringing of his children. Provenance: King served as the assistant on the Burke and Wills expedition, which initially comprised 19 people, led by Robert O'Hara Burke, alongside William John Wills. The aim was to cross Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, approximately 2,000 miles, and return along the same route. Four members reached Carpenteria, and only King survived the return journey, arriving in Melbourne in November 1861. Abbey, Travel 347; Howgego IV L39; Mendelssohn I, p. 908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; SABIB III, p. 136. F. R. Bradlow, "The Variants of the 1857 edition", Livingstone 1873-1973, 1973. Octavo. Original moderate brown sand-grain cloth, spine lettered gilt, spine and boards panelled in blind, pink surface-paper endpapers, top and fore edge uncut. Wood-engraved folding frontispiece, engraved portrait of Livingstone, 22 wood-engraved plates, folding geological cross section, 2 folding maps (one in endpocket), wood engravings in the text; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Lightly rubbed with a few marks to cloth, scattered foxing. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Livingstone, David. MISSIONARY TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA. John Murphy,, London:, 1857.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including 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 Ocean With Portrait; Maps by Arrowsmith; and Numerous Illustrations. London: John Murray, 1857. The rare issue with three pp.8.David Livingstone describes his travels and work as a missionary and explorer in regions of Africa previously unknown to Europeans. The book makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in Africa's indigenous peoples, their customs and languages, animal and plant life, geology, and mineralogy. Beautifully bound in full, crushed light brown morocco with gilt edges and spine in six compartments lettered and decorated in gilt; marble edges and endpapers. A magnificent copy of the very rare first edition/first state. Size: 8vo.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, *with 'cut' David Livingstone Signature mounted to verso endpaper * Royal 8vo. 711 pp. [1] [ 8pp. adverts dated November 1 , 1857 ]. *the extra leaf after page 8 is present*. folding wood-engraved frontispiece after J.W. Whymper, steel-engraved portrait of the Author, wood-engraved plates, one folding wood-engraved geological section, and 2 folding lithographic maps by John Arrowsmith with routes added by hand in red (one in pocket inside rear cover), wood-engraved illustrations in the text, one full-page, wood-engraved title-vignette. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, [light wear]yellow endpapers, map pocket to rear. Excellent Copy.
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom
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Description: London, W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1857. 8vo. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt by Edmonds and Remnants with their binder's label on rear fly-leaf; pp. ix, 687, 8 (advertisements, dated November 1, 1857); folding wood-engraved frontispiece after J.W. Whymper, steel-engraved portrait of the author by William Holl after Henry Phillips, 22 wood-engraved plates by Whymper et al. after Alfred Ryder, Ford, Henry Need, et al., one folding wood-engraved geological section, and 2 folding lithographic maps by John Arrowsmith with routes added by hand in red (one in pocket inside rear cover), wood-engraved illustrations in the text, one full-page, wood-engraved title-vignette; one corner with slight bump, internally, apart from minor spotting to frontispiece and foxing to steel-engraving (offsetting to tissue guard and title-page), a rather clean and fresh copy, with the binding particularly well-preserved. First edition, the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+, and with wood-engraved illustrations, one of many parallel issues as the publisher Murray had to give the commission for the production of the plates to various printing establishments at the same time. 'Livingstone's 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 1865-1873, of which the first and the 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. He 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 blank' (PMM). This remarkable work also alerted Victorian England to the extent of the slave trade in Central and Eastern Africa, and Livingstone's book corrected the popular misconception that the slave trade was dying out in Africa; through his researches and writings the Portuguese slave trade was virtually wiped out in Angola. Provenance: Dampierre bookplate inside front cover, contemporary Paris bookdealer's label in lower outer corner of paste-down. The Hardouin-Mansart-build château Dampierre is the seat of the Dukes of Luynes, several of whom were patrons of the arts and collectors. Abbey, Travel 347 (issue with lithographic plates); Czech, African p. 97 (issue with lithographic plates and map in rear pocket); Gay 3034; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.389; Mendelssohn I, pp. 908-910; PMM 341.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2472.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1857. hardcover. First edition, very finely bobund in original green calf with elaaborate gilt board inner dentelles and edges. original maroon label with the bookplate of Andrew Sherran Thomson, London.Illustrated with 24 full-page engraved plates including folding wood-engraved frontisspiece, numerous in-text woodcuts, folding elevation chart and two folding maps with Livingstone's routess hand-coloured. Both maps have a small piece of tape. Livingstone's first book. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Thick octavo, publisher s decorative brown cloth with gilt lettered spine. First edition, early issue, of Livingstone s first book. Illustrated with 24 full-page engraved plates including folding wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous in-text woodcuts, folding elevation chart and two folding maps with Livingstone s routes hand-colored. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box by the Heritage Bindery. Expertly recased with new endpapers. Interior is very clean and the original cloth is in excellent fresh shape only exhibiting very minor wear. A rare PRESENTATION COPY likely signed in the hand of a John Murray clerk: "Presented to W.H. Wylde from the author" on top of the dedication leaf. W.H. Wylde (1819-1909) was an acquaintance of Livingstone's from the British foreign office. As head of the commercial, consular and Slave Trade Departments of the F.O. from 1859, Wylde received correspondence (and clearly corresponded with) consuls, ambassadors, travelers and diplomats the length and breath of the globe. But it is the West and East Coasts of Africa and in particular the battle to defeat the slave trade (something Livingstone also worked to abolish) and establish legitimate trade in these areas, which dominated Wylde's own career. Durham University has his letter archive which contains correspondence with Livingstone, Layard, Hooker, Burton and other famous explorers. A very ice copy with an excellent presentation.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: including 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 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, printer's imprint] pp. plus 8 pp. publisher's 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. "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 engravings" (Norman Library). "Livingstone's 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 ârunning sore of Africa' 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 fly's bite was thought to be (and perhaps was) harmless to man" (Norman Library). David Livingstone (1813-1873) "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. Livingstone's 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 blank" (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. $7,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.