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 Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.

Author: Livingstone, David.
Title: 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 Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.
Description: John Murray, 1857. 1st Ed., 2nd Issue. x + 687pp. + [i] + 8pp. publ. adverts (dated November 1, 1857). Folding frontis., port., 23 plates, folding plan, 2 folding maps including 1 in rear pocket, 19 ills. Some light browning and soiling, minor tape markings to front e.ps., paper split to upper firm hinge, lower hinge neatly taped, original gilt lettered brown embossed cloth, minor mark to upper board, corners sl. frayed, spine sl. chipped. ¶ P.M.M. 341; Abbey Travel 347; Theal p. 178; Mendelssohn Vol. 1., pp.908.; Printing and the Mind of Man, 341. 'Probably no volume upon South Africa has been more widely circulated than this, and its merits are unquestionably of a very high order.' Theal, p.178.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; AFRICA

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