MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA

687 pages + 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements dated November 1, 1857, folding lithographic frontispiece of Victoria Falls by W. West, portrait, 1 other double-tinted lithograph by West opposite page 66, 1 single tinted lithograph from a sketch by C. Bell opposite page 225, and printed by West, 42 wood engraved plates and other illustrations (including a folding geological cross section of south central Africa), 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith - 1 in pocket in back cover, original blind stamped brown cloth, titled gilt on the back, foxing and offsetting on the tinted lithographs, foxing on the frontispiece, edges uncut, original endpapers with a light blue pattern and with the binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants, London at the bottom of the rear paste-down endpaper, back hinge split but holding on to the netting, overall a very good copy in the original cloth and endpapers.

Lloyd (B.W.) Editor LIVINGSTONE 1873-1973, page 14: The scarce Bradlow variant 1. Bradlow quotes research done by Gaston Renard, Bookseller, who lists this variant as the first issue although he does remark that this 'is not yet proved'. In our experience this issue is the most uncommon.