Missionary Travels and Researches In South Africa

John Murray, London, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". x + 688pp + 8 ads. Hinges cracking. Chips to spine ends with some loss to top. Endpapers browned slightly, text block clean. Edges browned. Occasional creasing to page corners. Corners bumped. All plates present except for folding map in pouch at… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1857. ARROWSMITH, Aaron. 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...With Portrait; Maps by Arrowsmith; and Numerous Illustrations. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition,… Read more about this item

London, Murray, 1857. . First edition. 8vo., ix, 687pp., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end), 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text, original brown blindstamped cloth gilt, rear inner hinge repaired, front inner hinge just starting but firm, a very good bright copy. "Perhaps the most famous… Read more about this item

London, John Murray, 1857.Contempoary calf, spine gilt (sl. rubbed; one hinge sl. dam. but holding). With folding wood-engraved frontispiece depicting the Victoria Falls by Whymper, engraved portrait (margins foxed), a folding cross section, 2 folding maps by John Arrowsmith and 42 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. X,687pp.This first edition appeared in various issues the same year. - An account of… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1857. Mild stains to frontispiece (perhaps due to paper type); otherwise a really fine copy.. Large octavo, engraved portrait and 23 plates (including folding frontispiece view), two folding maps by Arrowsmith at the end of the book, and numerous wood engraved illustrations through the text; in a fine contemporary binding of half black morocco and… Read more about this item

London, Murray, 1857. . First edition. 8vo., ix, 687pp., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end), 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text, light foxing to plates, contemporary calf gilt, covers ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, rebacked preserving spine, an attractive example. … Read more about this item

London: John Murrary, 1857. First edition, Bradlow's Variant No. 2. Folding engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps (one in rear pocket), 23 plates, 1 folding section plus numerous illustrations to text. [x], 688, [8 ads (dated November 1, 1857] pp. 8vo. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt, label of binder Edmonds & Remnant on back pastedown. Hinges cracked. First… Read more about this item

IX, [1], 687, [1], 8 pp.First edition of the famous account of the first mission and expedition through southern Africa undertaken by the Scottish physician, missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873). The account narrates chronologically his travels and experiences, including numerous descriptions of African tribes and chiefs, deserts, rivers, lakes, forests, cities, diseases, animals, trees, etc. Livingstone arrived in… Read more about this item

John Murray : London, 1857 First edition, ix + 687 pp, rare state with three page eights. In the first two issues, the frontispiece and two other plates are tinted lithographs- Livingstone was dissatisfied and had them re-engraved on wood for the rest of the edition in a third state. Folding frontispiece, engraved portrait by William Holl after Henry Phillips,… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1857. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. ix, 687. Thick 8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 leather over marbleds boards. With folding lithographed frontispiece of Victoria Falls (signed in the plate by Whymper), a steel engraving of the author facing page 1, (untinted) full-page engravings and line drawings in the text, and two folding maps tabbed-in at the… Read more about this item

London: John Murray,, 1857. It surpasses in interest the most exciting narratives of modern travel and adventure First edition. Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted… Read more about this item

London: John Murray,, 1857. It surpasses in interest the most exciting narratives of modern travel and adventure First edition. Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1858. First American Edition. Full leather. Near fine. First American edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone, handsomely bound in a full leather binding.. Thick octavo, xxiv, [1]-732pp, [4pp ads]. Full brown morocco, double gilt-ruled border. Title in gilt on red morocco label affixed to spine, five… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1857. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Various. A rebound first edition copy of David Livingstone's travelogue through South Africa, with a folding frontispiece, illustrations, and a folding map. First edition, rebound in blue cloth. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece, twenty-four black-and-white plates, one folding plate, in-text illustrations, and a folding map of… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-687, [1] pp. Bound without the publisher's advertisements. Half contemporary green calf over textured cloth boards, spine in six compartments with a brown morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a fold-out chromolithograph frontispiece, with… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. First American edition. Hardcover. Good condition. First American Edition of one of the most important nineteenth century accounts of African exploration with 2 Arrowsmith maps in very good condition. Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition, the Trans-Africa… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858, 1858. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American Edition. 8vo. xxiv, 732 pp., w/ fold-out chart and two fold-out maps at rear, (4). b/w illustrations throughout. Brown cloth boards decorated in blind. Fold-out map of Africa at rear torn down the middle, light scattered foxing to inside pages, tearing to cloth at board… Read more about this item

1857 AFRICA 1st ed David Livingstone Missionary Travels Illustrated Map Angola "If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all." ― David Livingstone An incredibly rare first edition of David Livingstone's "Missionary Travels." In this book Livingstone describes… Read more about this item

London: Maclaren & Company , 1905. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated . New edition of David Livingstone's first expedition in Africa, illustrated throughout. The first Africa expedition of famous explorer and Christian missionary in the nineteenth century David Livingstone. Sharing descriptions and impressions as well as research accomplished in South Africa.Featuring chapters on a voyage… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: HARPER, 1858 Two peels out of leather, some corner and edgewear, page and frontispiece etching of Livingstone loose, rest of binding very good, pages very good, all in all a very attractive copy 732 p. , 26 leaves of plates (some folded): ill. , maps (some folded), ports. ;.. Half bound leather, marble paper, marbled page edges, fancy… Read more about this item