77/ 882 [Africa]. Livingstone, D. 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, J. Murray, 1857, 1st ed., IX,(1),687,(1)p., fold. woodengr. frontisp. view of the Victoria Falls, steelengr. portr. of the author, 2 fold. lithogr. maps, fold. woodengr. and letterpress cross-section, 22 woodengr. plates, num. textills., bound by R. NELSON in contemp. richly gilt hcalf w. black mor. letterpiece, marbled edges.

- Apart from a few false folds in the large map, a fine and attractively bound copy.

= Abbey Travel, 347; Mendelssohn I, p.908-910; Henze III, p.270; Gay 3034; cf. Kainbacher p.87. PMM 341: "Livingstone's services to African geography during thirty years are almost unequalled (...). He made three great expeditions; in 1853-56 (described in this book), 1858-64 and 1865-73, of which the first and third are the most important. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.