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 Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.

711 pages, folding wood-engraved frontispiece of Victoria Falls by J.W. Whymper, portrait, 2 other wood-engraved plates by Whymper, 42 wood engraved plates and other illustrations, 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith - 1 in pocket in rear free endpaper, edged uncut, recently bound in grey cloth with gilt titling on the spine, small stain the margin of the plate at page 66, otherwise contents bright.

Bradlow variant 8. A rare variant with both the index and additional pages 8* & 8+. The index and additional pages were issued in early 1858 and they could be obtained from the publisher and bound in. They appeared in cloth bound copies towards the end of February. In the extra page 8’s Livingstone gives a brief account of his married life (to Mary Moffat) and the upbringing of his children whom he had omitted to mention in earlier issues. In this copy the publisher’s catalogue which appears at the end is dated 1st November 1857.