Lot 29
Livingstone, David, & Henry M. Stanley
Collection of their accounts of African travel
Auction: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 1 to 30
Description
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo (22.2 x 13.6cm), brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, x, [1], 687, [1] p., complete with 27 plates (some folded and some coloured, including 2 folded loose maps in pocket on inside of lower board), illustrations, with publisher's advertisements at end, headcap split, hinges cracking [Abbey Travel 347];
Ibid. The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa. London: John Murray, 1874. First edition, 2 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo (22.3 x 13.7cm), with folding partly coloured maps, 21 plates and 2 folded maps (large folded map in volume 1 in pocket on inside of lower board), publisher's advertisements at back of both volumes, both original maroon cloth, gilt-decorated spines and centrepieces, one copy with presentation inscription to Australian botanist William Woolls (1814-93), recased with repairs to hinges and to large folding map in pocket of volume 1, hinge to volume 1 cracked, other copy with ownership inscription of the Rev. Richmond Scott Thomson of Arbirlot, Forfarshire, with 2 plates from volume 1 loose, spines heavily sunned;
Stanley, Henry M. How I Found Livingstone. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872. First edition, 8vo (21.2 x13.5cm), contemporary half calf, [7], viii-xxiii, [2], 2-736 pp., plates, woodcut illustrations, 6 maps (some folded), with albumen print frontispiece of Stanley, early 20th-century photographic postcard of African man by J.G. Muse of Cowdenbeath loose in volume, without the 8 pages of publisher's advertisements, repairs to two of the folded maps, corner tips scuffed;
Ibid. Through the Dark Continent. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo ( 21.6 x 13cm), contemporary half calf, plates, maps and woodcut illustrations, wanting the 2 large folding maps in pockets at rear of both volumes and 1 folding map in volume 2;
Ibid. In Darkest Africa. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), contemporary half calf, plates, 3 folding maps and woodcut illustrations, repairs to 2 of the folding maps, boards scuffed (10)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman