MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Published by Harper And Brothers. 1858
Almost very good condition. 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. Three-quarter leather binding, 5 raised bands to spine, marbled paper sides. Title label to spine 'Livingstone's Travels'. Plain endpapers. B/w illustrations and plates. 2 Maps to rear.
Reprint. Leather spine & corners rubbed with slight loss of surface leather, spine is grubby and stained. Marbled sides are scuffed with loss of surface paper, boards exposed at edges. Front joint is just starting to crack. Binding is firm. Name in ink to top of title page. Some pencil annotations mainly to margins. Scattered foxing and general age related grubbiness throughout. One map is missing. One map has lower half torn away and missing. All other plates present.
Stock no. 1825646
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- AFRICA
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- EXPLORATION
- LEATHER BINDING
- ANTIQUARIAN
