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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone LL.D., D.C.L - 1984: including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa.

by David Livingstone LL.D., D.C.L

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone LL.D., D.C.L - 1984

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa.

by David Livingstone LL.D., D.C.L

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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1857 edition, complete with fold-out map and illustration, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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  • Publisher Time Life
  • Date Published 1984
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Livingstone's 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 Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean

by LIVINGSTONE LL.D., D.C.L., David

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Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley. Very Good. 1859. Hardcover. An account of Christian missionary David Livingstone's (1813-1873) explorations and travels in Africa. Moving eastward on the Zambesi River, he crossed the continent and made observations, including on the tsetse fly. With numerous engraved illustrations, including a tissue-guarded frontis image of Livingstone being attacked by a lion. This edition followed earlier ones by John Murray (London, 1857) and Harper and Brothers (New York, 1858). --- Bound in brown cloth-covered boards with cover decorations in blind; spine titling in gilt. Lacks a dust jacket. --- The cloth has faded and has a 3/4 inch tear to back cover, spine titling is somewhat dulled. With a child's doodlings in pencil to endpapers, a leaf at front of volume has been torn out, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; xiv, 9-440 pages .
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