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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good minus good. 8vo. 9" by 6". [xiv], List of Illustrations, 608 numbered pages, 32pp ads at the back. First edition. LACKING FOLD-OUT MAP. Professionally repaired as to spine and gutters/hinges. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped illustration on front panel, gilt lettering and graphics on spine. Double-blind fillet borders on front and back panels.Board panels and spine are scuffed, soiled and sunned. All edges scuffed and with a few run-throughs that are stabilized. External page edges age-darkened and with foxing. Dark green endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. 35 illustrations including fold-out frontispiece and in-text. Previous owner's name on title page. Small bookbinder's label on back paste-down. Text pages are age-toned. Several margin smudges. Foxing is scattered and primarily in the margins. Text block is sound. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Profusely illustrated with fine cuts throughout, many full page, and one folding of the Falls at Zambesi at the front. Thick 8vo, rebound in dark-green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. xiv, illustrations list, 608 pp. A good reading copy. The book is strong and tight, some wear to the edges of some leaves, the folding plate and last leaf with tissue repairs due to wear, a copy from the Hong Kong club with their stamp, without a folding map. FIRST EDITION. "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$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 9" by 6". [xiv], List of Illustrations, 608 numbered pages, 32pp ads at the back. Includes Map to Illustrate Dr. Livingstone's Travels. Map is in very good condition with some irregular creasing, foxing, minor tears and old tape repairs. Very good book. First edition. Professionally repaired with original spine cloth laid down. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped illustration on front panel, gilt lettering and graphics on spine. Double-blind fillet borders on front and back panels. Board panels and spine are scuffed and stained, sunned at edges. Edges scuffed, fore-edge corners are stabilized. External page edges age-darkened and with some foxing. Dark green endpapers with previous owner's bookplates. Front internal hinge is partially cracked, also slightly on back hinge, both holding and with sound text block. 35 illustrations are in-text and the fold-out frontispiece. Small bookbinder's label on back paste-down. Faint age-toning to text pages. Foxing is minimal, mostly on pages toward the front and back. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 22 cm; xiv, 608, 32 pages, panoramic folding wood-engraved frontispiece, title page vignette, 12 plates, numerous illustrations to the text, folding map with the route marked in red at the rear. Bound in recent half leather over marbled boards in period style. Contents clean.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 608, 32 (publisher's catalogue dated January 1865); with folding frontispiece, 12 full-page plates, 21 further illustrations in the text, and 1 folding map; some foxing and spotting throughout, closed tear to folding map crudely repaired to verso; a good copy in original maroon cloth with gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt lettered spine, green endpapers; spine repaired at head and foot (with some loss), hinges repaired, spine and covers faded; ticket 'Restored by Blair Jeary' to front pastedown.First edition, by David Livingstone and his brother Charles, recounting Livingstone's second Zambesi expedition which, despite several important discoveries, was largely regarded as an ignominious failure. In 1857, Livingstone resigned from the London Missionary Society and accepted the position of British Consul at Quilimane; at the same time he agreed to lead an expedition, financed by £5000 from the British Government, to chart the course of the Zambesi and investigate the agricultural potential and natural resources of the region. In private Livingstone had hoped that the expedition would ultimately lead to the founding of an English colony in Central Africa. However, the expedition was plagued by supply problems, internal disputes, sickness (Mary Livingstone died on 27 April 1862), and problems arising from the unsuitability of the steamship; despite reaching Murchison Falls, Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa and the Victoria Falls, further successes proved to be limited and the expedition was eventually curtailed in February 1864. Alongside numerous illustrations, this copy also contains a large folding map by the notable English cartographer John Arrowsmith (1790-1873). Gay 3034; Hosken, p. 126; South Africa Bibliography III, p. 137.
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$383.70 + shipping
Description: SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK ! Complete with Large folding Map (tape-strengthened) & 35 Illustrations (including folding Frontis.) Thick 8vo. Original gilt-decorative cloth boards / newly rebacked. 608pps. + 32pps. ads. Uncut. New endpapers. Very Good.
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of the Livingstone's illustrated travel account of their Zambesi expedition. The first edition.Illustrated with a folding plate to the frontispiece, one folding map, twelve plates, and in-text engravings.Collated, complete.Adverts to the paste downs and endpapers, and thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear.A first-hand account of the Zambesi expedition by the famed Victorian explorer David Livingstone.This 1858 to 1864 mission was to explore the Zambesi river's mouths and tributaries in order to navigate the waterway to the interior. The expedition lasted six and a half years total before it was recalled due to costs. Livingstone is regarded as one of the most popular British heroes of the latter half of the nineteenth century. He was seen as an anti-slavery crusader and his exploration of Southern and Central Africa were pioneering.Written by David Livingstone and his younger brother, Charles.Prior owner's gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small crack and chip to the rear joint. A small amount of loss to the tail of the spine. Spine is a little discoloured. Light marks to the boards and spine. Rear joint is faded. Hinges are starting but firm. Adverts tipped-in to the paste downs and endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional handling mark and spot. List of illustrations was previously removed and bound in. Plate facing page 144 is working loose. Folding map is edge worn and spotted. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$501.44 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO80259215: 1865. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos abîmé, Papier jauni. XIV + 608 pages. Nombreuses illustrations monochromes dans et hors texte. Une planche illustrée en noir et blanc dépliante en frontispice, une carte dépliante à la fin de l'ouvrage. Titre doré au dos, décor doré sur le premier plat.Texte en anglais. Trois photos disponibles. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Price: US$517.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece is a fold-out b/w drawing of Victoria falls and the zigzag chasm below. 35 illustrations are listed, 5 of which are full-page, one is the fold-out at frontispiece, and the remaining are within the text. No.19 "Wedding Procession at Tette" has been removed. 608 pages + 32 pages of advertising. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owner's name on blank page after ffep and on first page of preface. Original burgundy cloth, gilt illustration on front, gilt titles on spine. Book is solid, tight and clean. The outside of the spine has been rebacked. VG+.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Engraved folding frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, folding repaired at joints route map to rear. xiv, [ii], [1]-608pp. 8vo. Howgego IV L34, Mendelssohn I 915, SABIB III p. 137 Bound in three quarter mottled brown polished modern calf, marbled baords, brown leather title labels. Fine Engraved folding frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, folding repaired at joints route map to rear. xiv, [ii], [1]-608pp. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$821.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, pp. xiv, 608, folding map to rear with a few foxing marks but generally clean and bright, 32 pages of advertising, original blind ruled, gilt decorated and lettered burgundy cloth, the spine a little faded, cover bright, slightly rubbed, corners mildly bumped, top of spine very gently pulled, interior with dark green end papers, rear free end paper with a folded corner, some minor foxing to fold-out frontispiece, small circular blind stamp crest on title page, thereafter the text is clean, crisp and bright and the binding tight. A fine copy, rarely found in original cloth in this condition.
Seller: Charles Vivian Art & Antiques, Rosscarbery, CORK, Ireland
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Profusely illustrated with fine cuts throughout, many full page, and one folding of the Falls at Zambesi at the front, large folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, in a fine contemporary binding of have brown calf over maroon pebbled boards, the spine with a simple and elegant single gilt tool beneath gilt ruled gilt lettering, page edges marbled. xiv, 608 pp. A very handsome and well preserved copy, internally very clean and fresh, the folding map with a neat support at the verso where it attaches to the stub, the binding handsome and well preserved. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. "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.