Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years\' Residence in the Interior of Africa

Demy 8vo; recent green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; a.e.g.; pp. ix + (i) + 687; several plates, line drawings in text, a folding frontis., folding plan and 2 folding maps. Plain binding slightly bumped; earlier owner\'s name signed on pastedowns; ownership blindstamp to dedication leaf; folding frontis. and portrait, with tissue-guards, somewhat damp-stained; scattered foxing; few short tears to folds of large route map. Good condition. (Mendelssohn I p 908-10; Czech p 97; SABIB 3 p 136; A Bibliography of Published Works by and about David Livingstone 1843-1975 p 1) In his chapter \"The Variants of the 1857 edition of Livingstone\'s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa\" (in Lloyd: Livingstone 1873-1973, Struik, 1973), Frank R. Bradlow tables eight definite variants of the 1857 first edition, and does not claim to be exhaustive in his treatment of the subject. \"Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone\'s travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lake Ngami while accompanied by his wife and William Cotton Oswell. Oswell and the author continued their journey, discovering the Zambesi River and, eventually, the Victoria Falls. There are numerous sporting incidents with hunts after lions, buffalo, elephants, and a variety of plains game, even though Livingstone did not consider himself a sportsman.\" - Czech.