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How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone by Henry M. Stanley - 1890

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How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone by Henry M. Stanley - 1890

How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone

by Henry M. Stanley

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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 672 8vo. 'New and cheaper edition'. Fold out map to rear (complete, untorn but a little foxing). Half leather on marbled-paper covered boards, page edges marbled. Condition notes: Spine crumbling, leather corners rubbed, front free end paper missing and front board pulling away. Text block sound, pages clean apart from first blank page and verso of frontispiece. Occasional neat pencil bibliographic notes of previous owner or seller.
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  • Publisher Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1890
  • Size 672 8vo

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How I Found Livingstone Travels Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa

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Time-Life Books, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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(Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1984) 705415139. 'Classics of Exploration' series. Text facsimile of the 1872 edition by Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle. 8vo; original brown padded leatherette cover, lettered in gilt, with borders ruled in gilt, red, and blind; a.e.g.; marbled effect to endpapers; pp. xxxiii + (i) + 736, incl. index; several maps, largely folding; line drawings in text; silk marker. Loosely inserted synopsis by the publishers. Occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "How I Found Livingstone is not only a great chapter in the exploration of Africa, but a classic of journalism, too. Stanley's encounter was one of the greatest scoops in history. His greatest weakness - his ignorance of the business of exploration - he turned into an advantage. He saw everything with a fresh eye, and he described it with an enthusiastic lucidity. How he mounted his expedition from the island of Zanzibar, how he launched it into the interior: his account could have been a guide for… Read More
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How I Found Livingstone Travels Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa

How I Found Livingstone Travels Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa

by Stanley, Henry M

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How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone

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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington 1885 (New and Cheaper Edition, Thoroughly Revised Throughout). Octavo hardcover (VG-, damage to spine, folding map); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
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How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four Months Residence with Dr. Livingstone

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Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1984 8vo. original full leather gilt, aeg; pp. xxii, 736, with 28 full-page illustrations, 26 smaller illustrations & 6 maps (4 folding). Heavy item (1.8 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy with original bookplate & introductory sheet loosely inserted.. Facsimile. Hard Cover. F/None Issued.
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Amsterdam: Time Life, 1984. A facsimilie of the original 1872 edition, one in the Classics Of Exploration series, all edges gilt, in clean, bright condition, named bookplate. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in central Africa; Including Four Month's Residence with Dr. Livingstone. With Illustrations, maps, and a Memoir of Dr. Livingstone.

by STANLEY, HENRY M

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London; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Limited; 1890.. Seventh Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. lxxx, 552; illustrated frontispiece 'Dr. Livingstone At Work On His Journal", text with 18 other b/w. illustrations, one large folding map " Eastern Central Africa Showing The Routes and Discoveries of Henry Stanley Whilst in Search of Dr. Livingstone 1871-1872", glossary, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, decoration in gilt and brown to spine and upper board, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, small closed tear to folding map, good copy.
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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington limited. 1890 (new & cheaper ed.).. 8vo. Bound in full leather binding. Original boards, with later well done leather spine, raised bands, and gilt titled red Morocco label. All marbled edges & endpapers, bound in extra marbled endpapers front and back. In good condition. Boards a little marked, with corners a little bumped. Prize inscription on first blank page. A few light foxing spots on early pages, else generally clean & tight. Size 7.25 x 5 inches 552pp. 19 ills; Fold-out map. Stanley’s account of his journey to search for Livingstone, and the time he spent with him.
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Smapson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle 1874. Octavo, green buckram boards with black & gilt illus to spine & front board & gilt lettering to spine, blind-stamped motif to rear board, brown coated eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, lxxix + folding map + 552pp + 48pp adverts, illus + large folding map to rear, VG- (chaffing to spine & fraying to spine extrems, light rubbing to rear board, 8cm closed tear to front folding map, 16cm untidy tear to rear folding map, 3cm insect damage to edge of rear folding map, some tanning)
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Second English Edition. AN EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION COPY. Inscribed at the time of publication on a slip of paper affixed to front pastedown, "To my dear friend John H. Goodenow Esq U.S. Consul to Constantinople from Henry M. Stanley The Author London Nov 5 1872." Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the explorer and journalist, was commissioned by his employer, the New York Herald to mount an expedition to Africa to find the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone. Stanley found Livingstone in November 1871, where he famously said (or perhaps not),"Dr. Livingstone, I presume." The trip brought Stanley fame and fortune. His first account of the expedition was published in July 1872. The recipient, John Goodenow (1833-1906) was from a prominent legal and political family in Maine. In 1864 he was appointed as consul general in Constantinople and became secretary of the legation in Turkey in 1873. It was in his… Read More
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