The Story of His Life and Travels by Livingstone, David - 1894

T. Nelson & Sons, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. 118 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Insert to front pastedown. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips.

Paperback / softback. New.

Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company. Very Good+. 1874. Hardcover. Book is in excellent condition. Bright gilt lettering on spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 643 pages .

Hardback. New.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1888. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Various. A smart copy of this autobiographical work by David Livingstone, illustrated throughout. David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.Containing eighteen illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the author and a facsimile signature. Containing a prize bookplate to the front pastedown: 'Sunday School, Parish of S. Mary, Leicester, Prize, Frederick Knight, H.V. Broughton, Vicar, Christmas 1889'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with slight bumping and fading to the head and tail of spine as well as to the corners. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown, and slight offsetting to the front and rear free-endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages contain the odd spot or handling mark, as well as a… Read More