LIVINGSTONE, David (1813-1873). 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 coats; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. London: W. Clowes & Sons for John Murray, 1857.

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LIVINGSTONE, David (1813-1873). 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 coats; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. London: W. Clowes & Sons for John Murray, 1857.

8o. Title with wood-engraved vignette, folding hand-colored lithographed frontispiece, 2 colored lithographed plates, engraved portrait of the author, 22 wood-engraved plates, folding wood-engraved and letterpress plate of a geological section, 1 (of 2) folding maps with routes marked by hand in red. (Lacks one map, some spotting.) Modern red morocco.

FIRST EDITION. Cf. Abbey Travel I, 347 (second issue); Lloyd & Lashbrook 1a; Mendelssohn I,p.908. Sold not subject to return.

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