[LIVINGSTONE, David].
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D. Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources.
London and Newcastle: The Tyne Publishing Company, Limited , c. 1875.
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First Edition of The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone; Magnificently Illustrated and Exquisitely Bound
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.
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.
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