LIVINGSTONE, David.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;
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 Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean.
Stock Code 122794
London, John Murray, 1857.
With the frontispiece by West
The first issue of Livingstone's Missionary Travels with the rare frontispiece by West.First of Livingstone's three major expeditions in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east … During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before (PMM).
First edition, first issue; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); folding lithograph frontispiece by West, engraved portrait (light spotting), 2 folding maps, 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text; publisher's original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt, light wear; x, 687 pp.
Abbey Travel 347; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p.908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.
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