David Livingstone: 'Missionary Travels and Researches in Sou...

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£100 - £150

David Livingstone: 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa', London, John Murray, 1857, 1st edition, 1st issue, folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 lithographs (one tinted), 20 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding table, 2 folding maps as called for (one loose originally in pocket), original blindstamped cloth gilt, recased retaining original backstrip, replenished EP's/pastedowns. There is some confusion over which variant is the first edition, first issue. This copy matches the precedence given by Gaston Renard with the lithographs by W. West facing pp.66 and 225. (R) £60 (E) £70-100