[LIVINGSTONE, David].
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources.
First edition of The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone; in the publisher's deluxe full black morocco
London: J. G. Murdoch, c. 1875.
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First edition of this magnificently illustrated and bound compendium of David Livingstone's life and explorations of Africa. Quarto, original publisher's deluxe black morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, chromolithographic vignette title page, illustrated with 19 tinted lithograph plates including frontispiece of the meeting of Stanley and Livingstone, map of Central and South Africa.
Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary, and explorer of Africa, David Livingstone was one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa. At the same time, his missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africa led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa".
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources.
$900.00
Out of Stock
