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. by ... Fellow of the faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Corresponding member of the Geographical and Historical Society of New York; Gold medallist and corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris, etc. etc. To which is added A Historical Sketch of Discoveries in Africa. Illustrated with portraits, maps by Arrowsmith; and numerous illustrations by LIVINGSTONE, David - 1858

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1858. First edition. 8vo, pp. 732 + adv. Bound in drab brown cloth, cloth cut along the hinge, end papers stained, illustrated with plates and a map. A good copy. Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay 3034. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 341. cfAbbey, Travel, 347. cfHosken p. 126 (1st Issue). Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition, the Trans-Africa journey of 1853-56. On this expedition he travelled from Linyanti to Loanda and from Linyanti to Quilimane. While exploring the Zambesi River, he discovered the famous Victoria Falls in November 1855. "The results in geography and in natural science in all its departments were abundant and accurate; his observations necessitated a reconstruction of the map of Central Africa. When Livingstone began his work in Africa the map was virtually blank from Kuruman to Timbuktu, and nothing but envy or ignorance can throw any doubt on the originality of his discoveries." (Encyc. Britan., 11th Edn.) Livingstone also here gives an accurate account of the tsetse fly and of the disease produced in cattle following its bite. "Delightful reading." (DNB) Mendelssohn III 136. cfGarrison & Morton 5269. cfGay 3034. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 341. cfAbbey, Travel, 347. cfHosken p. 126 (1st Issue).