Shelfmark
Id6.1.06
Author
Title
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 the eastern ocean / by David Livingstone.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1857.
Physical description
ix, [1], 8, [2], 9-687, [1] p., [25] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., port., maps ; 23 cm. + 1 folded map (67 x 40 cm, folded)
Note
Variant of the first edition with extra leaf numbered 8* (recto) and 8+ (verso).
Note
11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established: it is now accepted 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" (Bradlow).
Note
Folded map in pocket inside back cover, with Livingstone's route picked out in red.
Note
Original reddish-brown sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers, binder's ticket (Edmonds & Remnants) to rear pastedown.
Provenance
Inscription in pencil on front endpaper: John Read / Terceira Jan[uar]y. 26. 1858 / Per Gipsy Queen.
Provenance
Pictorial bookplate of C. J. M. Adie.
Provenance
Library stamps and labels of Eton College School Library.
Binding
19th century publisher's binding.
Subject
Subject
Explorers Africa, Southern Biography.
Subject
Missionaries, Medical Africa, Southern Biography.
Subject
Africa, Southern Description and travel.
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
John Murray publisher.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--name
Edmonds & Remnants bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B50168