Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. 23 wood-engraved plates by J. W. Whymper, including 3 hand-colored (frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225); steel-engraved portrait of Livingstone; folding geological diagram; 2 folding maps. ix, [1], 8, 8*-8†, 9-711, [1] pages. 8vo, 214x136 mm, contemporary brown leather gilt, spine ends, raised bands, and joints rubbed; heavy foxing on last preliminary leaf and portrait, minor marginal foxing on some plates, contents otherwise clean. Morocco bookplate on front pastedown ("Hyde Pullen, Esq. presented by his affectionate pupils, Sept. 21st 1858"). London: John Murray, 1857

Additional Details

first edition; issue with additional leaf of text at end of introduction and index at end, and wood-engraved plates apart from the portrait. Garrison-Morton 5269 (for account of the tsetse fly on pages 80-83); Printing and the Mind of Man 341.