Livingstone's Missionary Travels in South Africa -- David Livingstone 1857

John Murray, 1857.

Condition: Good. Original tan, embossed cloth boards. Bumps and wear to the corners and light general wear.

Folding frontis, xi, 711 pp, portrait, 22 plates plus illustrations in the text, 1 folding diagram and 2 folding maps, 1 in a pocket to the rear.

Size: 15cm  x 23cm.

...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; then across The Continent, down The River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.First edition. The book covers the first of Livingstones three major expeditions in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before (PMM). This copy conforms to Bradlows Variant No. 3: frontispiece, plate 8 and 17 wood-cuts by Whymper, with an extra leaf after p. 8; the ads in this copy are dated November 1, 1857. Bradlow refrains from citing this as the third issue, since the precise relationship of the variants is unknown indeed, Bradlaw only retains Gaston Renards order of issue not because of a belief in its correctness but merely for convenience, and notes that the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8 and 8+ is not the first issue. The extra leaf following p. 8 covers Livingstones account of his married life and the upbringing of his children.

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