The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D. Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources.

First edition of this magnificently illustrated and bound compendium of David Livingstone’s life and explorations. Folio, bound in full black morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt titles and elaborate pictorial gilt decorations to the front and rear panels, engraved brass-mounted edges and double clasps to the front and rear panels, 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. Tyne Publishing Company issue, issued from the same stereotype plates as the Adam & Co. and John G. Murdoch editions and bound uniformly. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.