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Price: US$11.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 15pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XXXII, No. 192, May, 1866. A lengthy review of sorts by the editor of Harper's of the author's recent title, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, that had recently been published by Harper's. Housed in protective mylar report cover.
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xxii, 638pp, plus 6pp ads, well-illustrated, including full-page plates, and a large folding map, sized 17 x 24 inches, laid-in at rear, publisher's original brown cloth, spine lacking about half, extremities worn thru, moderate general wear and soiling, contents generally good; map generally clean and bright, with minor crinkles / short closed tears at some margins, and a small toned area as noted in pictures.
Seller: Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Map included.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$67.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is a better than average copy of the expedition that found lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. The 1866 date is on the full title page, the interior is completely unmarked, and the paper is in very good shape. On the down side the maps are not here and the covers are beginnning to pull. 638pp.
Seller: PickUp Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fair to good condition with good to very good fold out map. Map has a long tear taped on the back of the panel closest to the gutter. Spine tips, cover corners, and outside spine joints are well worn. Spine is faded. 638 pages plus six pages of publisher ads. Illustrated.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 638+(6) pages. Unusual double-page frontis ("Bird's Eye View of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi") plus a large foldout map at the rear. About very good condition, an unworn copy with light mottling to the red cloth, the map has one three-inch edge tear but is otherwise in excellent condition.
Seller: Jim Hodgson Books, Churchton, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: library binding, missing map
Seller: jeplank, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. xxii, 638 pp, plus publisher's adverts. frontis, text plates and folding map at rear. Publisher's red buckram with gilt spine titles. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, spine moderately toned. Front board has a faint wrinkle to the cloth, lower corner has a bit of a ding. Corners and spne ends have light wear. Binding tight. Text very clean, bright and unmarked. Folding map excellent. Expl. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 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. 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.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 24 x 15 cm. Octavo. 638 + 6 ads. Large fold-out map in rear, with one small closed tear to one of the creases. Bound in 20th century blue cloth. Previous owner's bookplate and date stamp on front fixed endpaper. 36 full page illustrations.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Bound in original plum cloth, spine expertly rebacked in matching cloth preserving original title panel and endpapers (some wear to boards and corners; some foxing). Binding is tight and square. Complete with folding color map at rear.B/w Illustrations.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$174.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rebound in red cloth with gilt titles on spine. 638 pages plus ads. Fold-out map in rear. Gilt titles on spine dulled. Light white spotting to cloth on spine. Hinges are sound and text is clean.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Charles and David Livingstone. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi. Harper and Brothers, 1866.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa - 1858-1864. By David and Charles Livingstone and printed in New York City by Harper & Brothers. 1866, 638pp, 9.25 x 6, 8vo, cloth binding. In fair condition, with superficial wear and rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Moderate hinge wear to the front and back of the book. Small inscriptions on the front flyleaf page and back pastedown. Double-page drawing that serves as the frontispiece is intact and in good condition. Slight age-related toning and periodic light foxing to pages. Filled with periodic black-and-white illustrations throughout. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce account on travels in Africa by David and Charles Livingstone. David (1813-1873) was a Christian missionary that traveled throughout Africa in search of the source of the Nile River, later famously disappearing until being discovered by Henry Morton Stanley in 1871. FORN-ABE-MSB-1121-Shelf-609-aj731
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Owner's name inside cover. Text is clean. Cover is loose on spine . Edges of boards are worn. Binding is good. Fold out map in back .
Seller: Grandma Betty's Books, West Salem, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864" by David and Charles Livingstone. 1866 1st American edition; Harper & Brothers; New York. The book features 36 in-text illustrations and full-page engravings (including a two-page frontispiece engraving of a "Bird's-Eye View of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi, and of the Zigzag Chasm below the Falls through Which the River Escapes"), as well as a large fold-out map of Dr. Livingstone's travels at the back. From the Preface: "It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of country previously unexplored, with their river systems, natural productions, and capabilities; and to bring before my countrymen, and all others interested in the cause of humanity, the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases - a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgment. The eight years spent in Africa since my last work was published have not, I fear, improved my power of writing English; but I hope that whatever my descriptions want in clearness or literary skill may in measure be compensated by the novelty of the scenes describe, and the additional information afforded on that curse of Africa, and that shame, even now, in the nineteenth century, of a European nation - the slave-trade." Here are a few examples of the contents: Second Portuguese Expedition after Gold Mines; Repulsed by Large Bodies of Natives; The Fatality of the Murderer Attends the Slave-Trade; Mouths of the Zambesi; Concealed to Deceive English Cruisers; Scenery of the River; Country in a State of War; Atrocities of Mariano; Birds and Beasts met with on the River; Peculiarity of Baobab Trees; Ravages of Smallpox; Superstitions about Mangoes, Coffee, and Rain-Making; Case of Voluntary Slavery; Elephant and Crocodile Schools of Medicine; Dice Doctors and their use as Detective Police; Coal, Gold and Iron; Hippopotamus Flesh; Sunstroke; Morumbwa Cataract; Native Musicians and their Instruments; Christmas in Tropical Dress; African Fever; First Intercourse with Unknown People; Beer Drinkers; Moon Blindness; Evil Effects of Contact with Slaves; Cockroaches as Aids to Banting; Palm Wine; Musquitoes; Confessions of an Old Slave Dealer; Native Travelers' Mode of Making Fire; Language of Ants; Rogue Monkey Respected; The Women, their Appearance and Ornaments; Gipsy Bellows in Africa; Victoria Falls; Albinos - Human and Hippopotamic; Skeletons; Young Women up for Sale; Native Language; Witchcraft, or Influence of Plants; Filing the Teeth and Tattooing; Slave-Hunters' Mode of Attack; Polygamy; Employments of Women; Cause of the War in America.and much more. Condition: There is a thin, 2" stain line below the title on the spine; small cloth tears at the cover corners; the top and bottom edges of the spine are worn. Tight binding with no cracks. The fold-out map at the back is present, but has torn away at the inner edge and is detached. The text pages are in nice condition - mostly clean with only some mild foxing here and there (though there is heavier foxing to the front and rear end papers). The blank page facing the 1st Preface page has 9 lines written in old handwriting in pencil about "Dr. Kirk" (Sir John Kirk, who was an English naturalist and companion to David Livingstone). There is an old bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Overall the book is in Good- condition due to the detached map.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With frontispiece, woodcuts and a large folding map. 638 pages. Tall 8vo, original rust cloth, blind-stamped borders on covers and gilt lettering on spine. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1966. First American Edition. A fine copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866. The Scottish missionary David Livinstone (1813-1873) was one of several famous explorers, including Burton, Speke, and Baker, who shared the Victorian obsession with discovering the sources of the Nile. His brother Charles (1821-1873) likewise had his health broken by Africa. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition. Red cloth binding with black titling on the spine. Clean text; 2-page illustration of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi, xxii, 638 pages, fold-out map, and a six-page publisher's catalog of "Books of Travel and Adventure" (including two titles by Sir Richard Burton). Several discreet chops from former-owner and a stamp on the rear paste-down. There is light rubbing to the margins and the spine has darkened. While the lettering is readable, it is a bit obscure. Other than these minor defects, a solid copy of this important book. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$255.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American ed. 8vo. xxii, 638pp. Double page frontispiece. 35 illus. 1 folding map, rubbed & repaired. Original cloth, rubbed, foxed, ownership signature & inscription on front end-paper & flyleaf.
Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Large 8vo. Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1866. 638 pgs. Frontispiece is a double page birds-eye view of the great cataracts of the Zambesi. Illustrted with 36 illustrations and 1 large folding map. Bound in red cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The success of the Victorian explorer and missionary David Livingstone's first book, Missionary Travels (1857) , led to his receiving government funding in 1858 for an expedition up the Zambezi River. The trip was expected to last two years, and was intended to further commercial and scientific as well as missionary aims. However, owing to internal disagreements, illness (including the death of Livingstone's wife) , drought and tribal warfare, the explorers' mission took six and a half years and achieved little apart from collecting plant and geological specimens. The upper reaches of the Zambesi proved unnavigable owing to rapids and waterfalls, and the expedition was recalled. This account, published in 1865 by Livingstone (18131873) and his younger brother Charles, who had accompanied him, was in part an attempt to excuse the problems which had beset the expedition, and restore Livingstone's reputation in order to gain backing for further ventures. EB; Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 638 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: and its tributaries and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1865. 638 pp, ill, large folding map and pub ads in rear. One double page plate in front. Classic of African travel & exploration. Fair condition only in orig. blindstamped cloth. Spotting on covers, wear to corners through to boards, spine tipped chipped with loss, top 2 inches of spine and bottom half of spine detached on rear. So - that appeals to us about this? It is THEODORE ROOSEVELT"S COPY with his engraved bookplate inside front cover.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: With double-page frontispiece of the great cataracts of the Zambesi, 12 full-page plates, 1 large folding map and text illustrations throughout. Brown textured cloth, exterior slightly faded and rubbed, spine nicked; text is slightly toned but clean. First American edition of Livingstone's account of his Zambezi expedition to examine the natural resources of southeastern Africa and to determine the navigability of the Zambezi River. He explored the Shire River, a stream leading to Zambezi and discovered Lake Nyasa along with the Rovuma River and Lake Chilwa. The expedition met with many difficulties. The Zambezi turned out unnavigable past the Cabora Bassa rapids and in addition, he lost his wife Mary to malaria. Livingstone became greatly concerned with the slave trade while exploring Lake Nyasa He encountered marches of manacled slaves and with the entire countryside devasted by warring and slave raiding made a great impact on him. Nevertheless, some of the scientists on the expedition contributed collections of botanic, ecological, geological and ethnographic materials on their return home. David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the greatest of all African missionaries, explorers, and antislavery advocate. He made geographical discoveries for European knowledge, inspired abolitionists of the slave trade, revealed that the interior of the African continent was not an arid wasteland, and provided new incentives for European colonization of Africa.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Thick octavo, blue cloth lettered in black; slightly soiled. First American edition, with double-page frontispiece of the great cataracts of the Zambesi and 35 other wood-engraved illustrations. A handsome copy complete with splendid large folding map.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xxii, 638, 6 (ads) pages. Fold-out map. Occasional black and white illustrations. "It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of country previously unexplored, with their river systems, natural productions, and capabilities; and to bring before my countrymen, and all others interested in the cause of humanity, the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases - a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgement." - from Preface. "There must be something in the appearance of white men frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for, on entering villages previously unvisited by Europeans, if we met a child. he would take to his heels in an agony of terror, such as we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum." - from page 199. Fold-out map measures 24" wide by 17" high and is entitled "The River Shire, The Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa, The Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi & Rovuma" - based on the Astronomical observations and sketches of Dr. Livingstone, Constructed by John Arrowsmith, 1865. The routes of Dr. Livingstone and the Officers of the expedition are indicated in red. Map bears one inch opening along left side. Book has been recased in red buckram with new beige endpapers. Binding sound. Average wear. Unmarked. Lettering upon spine rubbed but legible. A quality copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Price: US$531.25 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$535.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 638 pp.+ Dble-Page View of Zambesi Cataracts at Frontis, & 35 Other Illus Plts in Text, Lge FoldOut Map at back, Orig Red-Brn Hardback, Gilt title (Bright), owner bookplate else Fine & Crisp, no DJ, 1st Amer Ed (Beautifully Fresh & Crisp - About as Nice as you will Find)
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$544.50 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Illustrated with 36 fine cuts throughout, many of which are full page, the frontispiece being double-page plate of the Falls at Zambesi, large folding map at rear with expedition routes in red. Tall 8vo, in the publisher's original green cloth, more rare than the brown cloth bindings, lettered on the spine in gilt. xxii, 638pp., [6pp. ads]. A fine, handsome and well preserved copy, internally very clean, the folding map near pristine, the binding solid and very well preserved with barely any wear or rubbing at all, the green very slightly mellowed at the spine. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. The American issue is rarer then the English and the green cloth, though not unseen, is rarer still. "Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish medical missionary, is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the eminent Victorians, both in his achievement and in his influence." This is the scarce account of Livingstone's second expedition. "Other explorers we have had whose fame rose as high, but it lasted only for a few years. The influences of Dr. Livingstone's life-work, on the other hand, are so far- reaching that his fame is above the passing feelings of the time."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Narrative Of An Expedition To The Zambesi And Its Tributaries 1858-1864 by David and Charles Livingstone. First American Edition in original pebble patterned green cloth. Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1866. Frontispiece is a double page birds-eye view of the great cataracts of the Zambesi. Large folding map in the rear. 36 illustrations. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents generally clean with the exception of a lower corner stain to pages viii-x and faint to first contents page. New endpapers. Binding is tight. 638 pages plus the folding map and 6 pages of catalog. 6 ½ x 9 ½ inches. The American issue is rarer than the English and the green cloth, though not unseen, is rarer still. This is the scarce account of Livingstone's second expedition. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #20-107. Price: $550.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$566.50 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Thick octavo, xxii, [1]-638pp, 6pp ads. Bound in full brown morocco, new marbled endpapers. Double gilt-ruled border on covers. Title in gilt on black morocco label affixed to spine, five raised bands with gilt ruling. Solid text block, a touch of toning to edges, faint foxing throughout, a near fine example. Complete with 36 illustrations, including frontispiece. Fold-out map at end depicting the rivers and lands through which the expedition traveled in South Eastern Africa. Light toning to map, closed tear where attached to volume. (Hosken 126).
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.