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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Adam. H G

Life and Adventures of Dr Livingstone in the Interior of South Africa (1870)

Comprising a description of the regions which he travelled; an account of missionary pioneers; and chapters on cotton cultivation, slavery, wild animals, etc, etc

Published: James Blackwood, London, 1870

Edition: First

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Maroon cloth-boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration to the upper board and spine, plain endpapers, 355 pp of prelims, frontispiece portrait, decorative half-title and title pages, 355 pp of text illustrated by "sixty engravings by various artists" and publisher's announcement at the back

CONDITION

  • The boards are rubbed but the binding remains square and tight
  • The endpapers are unmarked and undiscoloured but the back endpaper is cracked at the spine
  • The contents are complete, unmarked and undiscoloured

Published four years before Livingstone's death, this book is something of a curiosity - though relatively rare - written and illustrated to satisfy a market anxious for details of the great missionary-explorer's life

  • Binding Condition: Good +
  • Overall Condition: Good +
  • Size: 180 x 120 x 25; 0.4
  • Sold By: Fontein Books
  • Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
  • Trade Associations: AA Approved


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