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Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Description: Poor set, covers detached, spines mostly missing. Some waterstaining. Lacks 1 map volume 1, other illustrations present 360&346
Seller: Gage Postal Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Description: "Continued by a Narrative of His Last Moments and Sufferings, Obtained from His Faithful Servants, Chuma and Susi", 346 pp + 20 pp "Mr Murray's List of New Works". All original hb cloth 15 x 23 cms gilt top & spine, gilt bright. Original spine laid on. Arranged in thirteen chapters, 14 full page B & W engraved illustrations, six smaller illustrations and a coloured fold out map to the rear, Indexed as: "Map of Conjectoral Geography of Central Africa, from Dr. Livingstone's Notes". Map in Mint (as new) condition. Map itself headed: "A Map of the Forest Plateau of Africa Shewing the Great Rivers and Lakes Discovered and Explored by Dr. Livingstone". [Horace Waller, 1833 - 1896, was an English anti-slavery activist, missionary and clergyman. He was known as a writer on Africa, evangelical Christian, close associate of David Livingstone and others involved in central and east African mission and exploration work, and an advocate of British imperial expansion]. Uninscribed. A lovely copy.
Seller: The Sanctuary Bookshop., Lyme Regis, United Kingdom
Price: US$92.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine of vol. 1 cracked, wear to top edges of spines of both volumes. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Publisher's cloth, gilt design on covers.
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$133.66 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo's, 360pp and 346pp, black and white illustrations throughout. Volume one lacks folded map housed in pocket. Volume two has fold-out map to rear. A good hardback set of two. Both volumes rebound using original covers and spines which are worn and rubbed with some fraying and bumping to extremities. Gold illustrations to covers still vivid. New endpapers. Bindings solid. Fore edges tanned. Some minor staining and insect damage mainly to one corner of portrait frontispiece.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Price: US$275.60 + shipping
Description: Illustrierter Leineneinband, 23 x 14 cm, berieben und randgebleicht, Rücken gebleicht und mit ca. 6 cm langem Einriss oben, Innenseiten leicht gebräunt, aber durchweg sauber, Stiche und Karte intakt, insges. in intaktem und gutem Zustand. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Livingstones von 1865 bis zu seinem Tod in Zentralafrika nebst einem persönlichen Bericht von L s letzten Tagen von seinen beiden Leibdienern. Mit einer Faltkarte der Geografie Zentralafrikas, 14 ganzseitigen Illustrationen und 6 kleineren Illustrationen. Stichworte: David Livingstone, Forschungsreise, Expedition, Afrika, Tagebuch 346 S., Stiche, Faksimile, 1 Faltkarte Englisch 840g
Seller: Antiquariat an der Linie 3, Darmstadt, Germany
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First map following table of contents is half missing. Larger map at end of volume 2 is present in excellent condition. Writing on 2nd end paper. Boards and end papers marbled. Some foxing on end papers. Interiors are otherwise very clean and in excellent condition. Exteriors lightly worn, especially on corners. Spines in excellent condition.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$352.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green Morocco Leather Half Binding with five raised bands gilt dec. compartments and titles.green cloth sides to boards, applied two colour head and tail bands, printed made marbled end papers. 230 x 150 mm approx. Vol I xvi + 360 pp+ publisher's 6 page catalogue for Dec 1874. Frontis with tissue guard + 6 full page illustrations and 18 in text, fold out colour map in pocket to rear. Vol II viii + 346pp + 20 page publisher's catalogue Nov 1874. Frontis with tissue guard + 13 full page illustrations + 6 in text and colour fold out map to rear all as called for. Signed bindings by Lewis & Harris of Bath we would estimate as circa 1960's/70's. Please see our images of the actual set offered for sale for further details and condition. VG ( No notable shelf wear to leather or soiling to cloth sides. No previous owner names or insc. Mild foxing to reverse of frontis to both vols. The large fold out map is essentially complete with minuscule loss to a couple of "+" folds these together with a section fold of approx 5 cm have had some conservation tape repairs carried out after inspection prior to listing. NB the 140 year old thin paper of the map is becoming brittle and extreme caution should be exercised in use if further damage is not to be sustained. The fold out map to vol II is of paper stock similar in weight to that of the book block and clean and free from any defects). No other defects. A handsome matched set.
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.98 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes: 360 pp, 346 pp, tinted end-papers, folding maps and plates, gold-blocked boards, spines sunned, boards flecked - restored set, preserving original boards and spines, a sound and attractive set in purple, cloth boards. Includes related newspaper clippings.
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
Price: US$413.05 + shipping
Description: 2 Vols, XVI 360, VII 346 pages, maps including large folding map at rear pocket, full page and text illus, Vol. 1 2 closed tears to parts of pocket, spotting to end papers, and occasional spotting to contents. Publishers plum cloth, gilt vignette to upper board of natives carrying Livingstone across a river, gilt vignette to spine. Spine evenly faded with light rubbing to corners and edges. The journals include " a series of travels and scientific geographical records of the most extraordinary character of seven years continuous work and new discovery" Livingstone died on April 1873, his faithful servants Susi Chumi and Jacob Wainwright preserved his body and papers and brought them safely to England. Mendelssohn Vol 1 912.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$506.69 + shipping
Description: [History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (23 x 16 cm), pp. XVI; 360; 6, publisher's advertisements. Pp. V; [1]; 346; 20, publisher's advertisements. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt tooling and lettering to spine and front-board. 21 illustrated plates overall, and many in-text illustrations throughout. One fold-out map to each volume. Vol I) Marking to pastedown (possibly from an old bookplate), spotting to preliminaries, previous owner's name to front blank, and in blue ink to verso of title page. Light spotting throughout, sunning to boards and spine, one tear to crease of fold-out map. Very good. Vol II) Marking and tearing to pastedown with glue staining/tearing to flyleaf and frontispiece, previous owner's name to frontispiece recto, and in blue ink to verso of title page, spotting throughout, sunning to boards and spine, bump to edge of front-board. Very good. Horace Waller was an English antislavery activist, missionary and clergyman, and with the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, he went out to Africa in 1861 journeying to similar regions as David Livingstone. These books compile the diaries of Livingstone between the years of 1866 to April 1873 (when he died in Ilala). Livingstone was a prolific diary writer and charts the itinerary of his days, routes, botanical notes, calculations, the landscape, and much more on his exploration to find the source of the Nile.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$570.83 + shipping
Description: The first edition of the collected final journals of David Livingstone, edited by his close friend, complete with plates and folding maps. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.The final journals of noted explorer David Livingstone.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map to the pocket to the rear, six plates, and in-text engravings. Six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, dated December 1874.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, fourteen plates, and in-text engravings. Twenty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, dated November 1874.Collated, complete.After Livingstone's death in 1873, Horace Waller, the editor of this work, was given Livingstone's final journals by Henry Morton Stanley.These final journals of the pioneering explorer explore his final years of life in Central Africa, from 1865 to 1873. In editing these journals Waller presented a sentimental and saintly image of Livingstone. Waller was a close associate of Livingstone, and himself published works on Africa.This edition also includes a description of Livingstone's final moments and death written by his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi.Institutional label of Clifton College to the front paste downs. Rebound in a modern cloth binding. Externally, smart, with a little light rubbing and fading to the spines. A couple of very light marks to the boards. Institutional label to the front paste downs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only the occasional scattered spot. Folding map to the pocket of Volume I has been restored to the reverse, a little edge worn with a few tears. The occasional institutional stamp to the text. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$615.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two octavo volumes, First edition. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-360, [2]; [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-346 pp. Volume one illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of David Livingstone, six additional plates, and several in-text illustrations. Volume two illustrated by a frontispiece and thirteen additional plates, a colour fold-out map, a colour pocket map, and numerous in-text illustrations. A couple of the plates in volume two are facsimiles of Livingstone's journal entries. Interiors clean; a few very short closed splits to folding map along folds & with some invisible tape repairs on the back. Two folding maps are colour lithographs, one is quite large and housed in a pocket at the rear of Volume I. With publisher's adverts at rear of each volume. Some sporadic very mild spotting and occasional marginal stains. 15.5 x 23 cm. Original maroon cloth, gilt-decorated spines and centerpieces (faded and slightly mottled). Spines lightly sunned, gilt largely bright. Volume one inner hinges cracked, rear hinge with some repair to add strength. A very good set in the original cloth. One of the key publications of nineteenth-century African colonial exploration; for all the discoveries recorded by Livingstone in Central Africa, his name has become synonymous with that of Cecil Rhodes in hastening the African continent towards becoming a possession of European states.
Seller: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB & IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$747.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Narrative of HIS LAST MOMENTS AND SUFFERINGS, obtained from his Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi. Rebacked set. Volume I, 360 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate of Livingstone. Further illustrated with 6 full page plates and 18 illustrations. Volume II, 346 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate of Evening in Ilala, 1873. Further illustrated with 13 more plates, 6 illustrations and one fold-out map. Also large folded map in a pocket attached to back paste down endpaper. Both Volumes: Some light foxing and lightly soiled edges, otherwise pages good condition. New white endpapers. Both are rebacked. Purple cloth. Lovely, detailed embossed gilt illustration and embossed graphic border on upper covers. Boards and edges show some wear. Spine lightly faded and worn. New gilt bands, leather labels with gilt bands and title on spine. Books solid. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$767.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols. 8vo. Pp xvi, 360; vii, 346. Collated - perfect - all plates & maps present. Publisher's catalogues to the rear of both volumes dated December & November 1874. Original cloth stamped gilt. Spines faded, boards and spines marked. Inner front hinge to vol 1 cracked. Vol 1 a little shaken. Occasional spots of foxing. Split to one fold of the large map with. No inscriptions. A decent copy. Overseas postage at cost.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$769.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes. Half bound in calf over marbled boards. Each volume with a black-and-white frontispiece. Volume 1 with 6 full-page black & white plates and numerous smaller in-text illustrations, folded map of Livingstone's discoveries in a pocket to rear. Volume 2 with 14 full-page black & white plates and numerous smaller in-text illustrations, fold-out map to the rear. Publisher's ads at the rear of each volume. First editions. Pretty copies, externally bright and clean with a tiny hint of rubbing ( inconsequential ) to the extremities. Internally sharp - clean, securely bound, no inscriptions. The occasional spot - very occasional - here and there. Attractive copies. Please note that shipping on this set will be a little more than that quoted by ABE. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$881.93 + shipping
Description: (., obtained from his Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi, By Horace Wallace. Vol. 1+2 cpl. Erste Ausgabe - First edition ) Mit XVI, 460, 6; VII, 356, 20 Seiten ( Publisher`s Advertisements ). Mit 1 sehr großen, mehrfach gefalteten kolorierten Karte ( hinten im 2. Band ) sowie einer kleineren gefalteten farbigen Karte hinten im ersten Band. Mit 21 Tafeln in Holzstich ( incl. 2 Frontispiztafeln ( Porträt Livingstone Evening Ilala ) sowie 24 Textillustrationen in Holzstich. Die große Karte *A map of a portion of Central Africa by Dr. Livingstone from his own surveys drawings and observations between the years 1856 and 1873 ( Dr. Livingstone`s routes are coloured red Maße der Karte ca. 80 x 80 cm ) / die kleinere Karte *A map of the forest plateau of Africa shewing the great rivers and lakes ( Dr. Livingstone`s routes are coloured red. Maße dieser Karten 23,5 x 20,5 cm ). Einbände jeweils in goldgeprägtem illustrierten weinroten Oln, 8° ( 23,5 x 14,5 cm ). Die Einbände jeweils etwas berieben, gering fleckig, Ecken und Kanten gering bestoßen, die schmalen Einbandrücken zum oberen Kapital hin gering ausgefranst, Bindung teils gelockert, der Buchblock von Teil 2 ist gebrochen, der Buchblock ist aber noch fest im Einband. Innen jeweils mit altem Buchzeichen *Sold by A. Roberts, Bookbinder, Stationer & Printer, Windsor* sowie altem Wappenexlibris ( Peters ) auf dem Innendeckel vorn. Innen von insgesamt guter Erhaltung. Wenige Seiten gering fleckig, Buchschnitt jeweils leicht stockfleckig, die Tafeln und Textillustrationen von guter Erhaltung ( teils verso etwas stockfleckig ). Seiten teils etwas angeknickt., die Publisher Advertisement-Seiten teils mit Randläsionen. Auf dem Vorsatz innen alter handschriftlicher Besitzvermerk G.H.P., Die große ausfaltbare Karte mit einigen Druckstellen, etwas berieben, gering fleckig, leicht angeknickt, die kleine Karte von guter Erhaltung. Zusammen 2 Bände. ( Gesamtgewicht ca. 1650 Gramm ) ( Lagerort Rich - 1. OG ) ( Pic erhältlich // webimage available )
Seller: Antiquariat Friederichsen, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-360, [2]; [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-346 pp. Half bound (by Palmer & Howe) in contemporary smooth maroon calf over pebbled maroon cloth, edges of cloth ruled in gilt, spine in five compartments with two green morocco labels lettered in gilt; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers, and pastedowns. Volume one illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of David Livingstone, six additional plates, and several in-text illustrations. Volume two illustrated by a frontispiece and thirteen additional plates, a color fold-out map, a color pocket map, and numerous in-text illustrations. A couple of the plates in volume two are facsimiles of Livingstone's journal entries. Contemporary bookplate of Albert McGill, with his motto "Sine Fine" on each pastedown. Oxford DNB, Roberts, A.D., "David Livingstone". These are the final writings of David Livingstone, shortly before his death in 1873. He was seeking the source of the Lualaba, which he thought was the source of the Nile. Livingstone succumbed to his injuries and illnesses he suffered from his travels around equatorial Africa. While Livingstone was an advocate for native sovereignty and a firm abolitionist, historians argue that he renewed the justification for British imperialism on African lands. While Livingstone genuinely believed in spreading the Christian gospel, economic imperialists used this pretense to invade and control many parts of Africa. These journals are a record of Livingstone's final days, a first-hand account of travel around nineteenth-century central Africa, and one of the high spots of nineteenth-century African exploration. A Very Good set with an occasional, faint dampstain to the margins of some of the plates, not affecting the visibility or sharpness of any of them. Bindings are sharp with very mild mellowing to the spine's leather.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$943.50 + shipping
Description: 2 Volumes. 8vo. xvi, 360, 6(ads); vii, [1], 346 + 20(ads). 2 folding partly coloured maps, 21 plates (incl. 2 frontis.), & 24 text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spines faded, extremities bit frayed, inner hinges strengthened, light foxing to outer leaves in Vol. I). First Edition. The journals contain a detailed description of Livingstones last expedition which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873. "The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Baker and Burton, but the idea grew on upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the fountains of Herodotus." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) Hosken p. 126. Mendelssohn III 135.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley. Often portrayed as "a defender of British colonialism, a zealous missionary, and a symbol of the masculine drive to explore and to civilize Africa," the truth about David Livingstone is more nuanced (Petrusic, 20). He certainly still subscribed to many racist ideas that permeated white British culture in the 19th century, but he also rebuked the colonial efforts of his home country, writing numerous letters of support for the Xhosa people who were forced to push back against violent British forces. Livingstone's veneration as a British cultural icon began with many purported "firsts" and "discoveries" covered extensively in newspapers (the native African guides who led him to these "unknown" geographical features had, of course, been aware of them for centuries). Stanley's account of how he "found" the wayward missionary and explorer sensationalized Livingstone's life and travels for the public, and the publication of THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE "elevated his status close to sainthood" (Petrusic, 21). Horace Waller edited THE LAST JOURNALS with help from Livingstone's African assistants Chuma and Susi. Covering the eight years before Livingstone's death, THE LAST JOURNALS contain observations of the many African peoples he encountered, difficulties with wildlife, his missionary efforts, and, of course, his meeting with Stanley. Two volumes, 9'' x 5.5'' each. Original burgundy cloth bindings with gilt lettering and pictorial elements. Brown coated endpapers. Each volume with black-and-white frontispiece. Volume 1 with 6 full-page black-and-white plates and numerous smaller in-text illustrations, folded three-color map of Livingstone's "discoveries" tucked into pocket to rear; volume 2 with 14 full-page black-and-white plates and numerous smaller in-text illustrations, fold-out three-color map to rear. Publisher's ads at rear of each volume. xvi, 360, 6; viii, 346, 20 pages. Bindings with some wear to extremities, sunning to spines; volume 2 with a bit of scuffing to boards. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedowns, hinges repaired. Volume 1 map with a couple small tears at folds. Sound and bright overall.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two octavo volumes, original maroon cloth, gilt-decorated spines and centerpieces. Interiors clean; a few very short closed splits to folding map along folds. The two folding maps are color lithographs, one is quite large and housed in a pocket at the rear of Volume I. With publisher's ads at rear of each volume. Spines lightly sunned, gilt bright. An about near-fine set in the original cloth housed in a brown cloth clamshell box with a Morocco label. First edition of the journals from David Livingstone's last African expedition from 1865 to 1873, illustrated with frontispiece portrait, 20 full-page wood-engravings (including some after Livingstone's sketches and facsimiles from his journal), in-text illustrations and two folding maps. A splendid copy in the original cloth. The best known and most admired African explorer and missionary of the 19th century, Livingstone was the first to map much of central Africa. The Last Journals presents a detailed description of Livingstone's last expedition, which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death in 1873. An attractive set.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Complete with the publisher's advertisements. With frontispiece portrait, 2 coloured folding maps (1 in a map pocket at the end of Volume I), and numerous illustrations. Original gilt pictorial cloth, some fading to the spine and spotting to the blank fly-leaves. Signature of Thos. Thornton, dated 1875, on both titles. Signature of Thos. Thornton, dated 1875, on both titles.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.