‎Kingsley, Mary H.; Turner, Lynnette‎
‎Travels in West Africa‎

‎Travels in West Africa.‎

‎1976 276 p., numerous plates, frontispiece, cloth (in slip-case). Ex library Dr. A.C. van Bruggen (with his signature on first free endpaper). Good copy.Many Kingsley traveled Africa at young age and died in South Africa nursing Boer prisoners, got sick herself and died at 38 years of age.‎

‎Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Accross the Continent, Down the River Zambesi To the Eastern Ocean.‎

‎ 1857 London Murray, John. 1857,(X) -687 p.. Édition originale (second tirage ?), de ce qui est probablement le plus célèbre de tous les livres d'exploration de l'Afrique.Relation de la première grande expédition (1853-56), durant laquelle il explora le Zambèze et les chutes Victoria. L'un des plus importants livres d'exploration de l'Afrique de tout le XIXe s., par l'un des plus grands explorateurs de tous les temps.- Folding print of the Victoria Falls ( portrait, and a further 45 plates and maps (J.Arrowsmith) All plates present as called for. original (Brown) blindstamped cloth, spine with gilt lettering, Title very.used,very acceptable. See: Abbey Travel: 347. Gay: 3034 First Edition Cloth Large 8Vo Good,Photo et description sur demande.Picture and description upon request. reliure plein chagrin tabac tres frottée,dos usé,fente charniere,texte frais correct, ‎

‎First edition. 8vo., ix, 687pp., folding frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith. 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text, original brown embossed cloth gilt, armorial bookplate to front paste down,Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone's travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lake Ngami, while accompanied by his wife and William Cotton Oswell. Oswell and the author continued their journey, discovering the Zambesi River, and, eventually, the Victoria Falls. -First Edition, Second Issue with uncoloured folding frontispiece.Mendelssohn, pp. 909-11; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.A good copy indeed, in the original chocolate brown embossed ribbed cloth, the original endpapers. the map in the back pocket is unusually fine and clean. Overall an attractive copy of this major 19th century exploration classic, which has become increasingly scarce in collectable condition., ‎

‎Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean.‎

‎London, John Murray, 1857. Petit in-4 de IX-[1]-687-8 pages, pleine percaline brune décorée à froid. Etiquette de la librairie Desrogis, à Genève (de l'époque de la publication de l'ouvrage). Infime fente à la coiffe supérieure. Etiquette du relieur: Edmonds & Remnants.‎

‎Illustré d'un frontispice dépliant, d'un portrait de Livingstone, de 22 gravures hors-texte, de deux cartes dépliantes et d'un plan géologique dépliants, une dans la poche au second contre-plat, et 20 figures in-texte. Édition originale. "Missionary Travels" est l'un des récits les plus emblématiques de l'exploration africaine au XIXe siècle et le fondement de la légende de Livingstone. Il décrit la première de ses trois grandes expéditions dans lesquelles il suivit le Zambèze, découvrant les chutes Victoria, ainsi que les fleuves Shire et Ruyuma, allant de l’Angola à l’ouest au Mozambique à l’est… Au cours de ces années il a exploré de vastes régions d’Afrique centrale, dont beaucoup n’avaient jamais été vues auparavant par des hommes blancs. On trouve relié à la fin le catalogue des nouveautés de l'éditeur, daté du premier novembre 1857. Très bel exemplaire sans aucune rousseur. ‎

‎Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.‎

‎London, John Murray, 1857, lg. in-8vo, X + 687 p. + 8 p. (catalogue), 47 ill. in-text and on 25 plates + 2 maps (one in end-pocket), small legacy stamp ‘Guggisberg’, original publisher’s brown clothbound, gilt title on spine, light wear at spine ends, innerjoints cracked. Very good copy. ‎

‎First edition. Image disp.‎