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A rebound first edition copy of this important travel work by David Livingstone, complete with illustrations and folding maps. First edition - issue with lithographs facing pages 66 and 225, and no extra leaf after page 8.Illustrated with a folding plate to the frontispiece, three folding maps, one folding plate, twenty-four plates, and in-text engravings.Collated, complete.'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' shows the intellectual breadth of the author in his descriptions of his experiences working as a missionary and travelling in South Africa.Livingstone was well educated on Africa, having spent his sixteen years there reading extensively on religion, medicine, anthropology, and natural history. It was during these sixteen years that he decided to keep a journal on his experiences, knowing that his reputation as an explorer was rising.This work is written in a conversational style with humorous tones. He offers a fantastic, enlightening, and detailed account of the lives of people in South Africa in the mid nineteenth century.The work was very popular upon publication, seeing twelve-thousand copies of the first impression being sold out before publication.David Livingstone was a Victorian hero for his work with the London Missionary Society, as a medical pioneer and explorer in Africa. This book gives great detail into his explorations, including an insight into the years in which is was missing and presumed dead by British authorities.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, 'The Reverend Thomas Green, B.A., Presented to him by the members of his Bible class as a token of esteem, Ryecroft, 9th December 1857'. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A little rubbing to the spine and extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots, including to the folding maps. A little edge wear to the folding maps. Very Good Indeed.

This book details David Livingstone's explorations in South Africa, his encounters with indigenous peoples, and his efforts to spread Christianity.