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Auction #132 begins on 09 Jul 2026

Livingstone [David]

THE LIFE & EXPLORATIONS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources

Published: John G. Murdoch, London, ca1875

Edition: First edition

Reserve: $180

Approximately:

Estimate: $280-320

Bidding opens: 9 Jul 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 16 Jul 16:30 GMT

Ships from: Ireland

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1 volume. First edition ca 1875.

A lovely clean copy in lovely leather binding.

Original tooled leather cover.

Raised bands with gilt title and gilt panel vignettes.

Triple gilt page-blocks.

Colour endpapers. 

viii, 632 pages.

Colour title page.

Colour frontispiece place with tissue-guard.

19 aqua tinted full-page plates.

Full-page colour map of South Africa.

Beautiful chromolithographic and tinted lithographic plates.

Very detailed coloured map.

A South African Bibliography, Volume 4, pages 53-54, ascribes the authorship

to John S. Roberts. This work, compiled from secondary sources, was issued

by a number of different publishers and other commercial firms in Britain.

An edition was published in Australia and there was a Welsh translation.

The binding was offered in a variety of formats. This binding resembles

many Bibles produced in the Victoria era and so it is sometimes referred

to as the Livingstone "Bible".

Recorded shipping weight 4000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 31 x 24 cm


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