?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. 24 plates, wood-engraved except for steel-engraved portrait; folding geological diagram; 2 folding maps (one in rear cover pocket). Publisher's 8-page catalogue at end dated November 1, 1857. 8vo, original brown cloth blocked in blind by Edmonds & Remnant, recased, spine ends nicked, short tear at front of rear joint; portrait lightly foxed, contents otherwise generally clean. London, 1857
first edition; issue with wood-engraved plates apart from the portrait, and with an additional leaf of text at end of the Introduction. Garrison-Morton 5269 (for account of the tsetse fly); Mendelssohn III, 136; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.
