The Last Journals of David Livingstone
First Edition - Very Handsomely Bound - 1875
Profusely Illustrated Throughout
[Livingstone] Waller, Horace. THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, IN CENTRAL AFRICA, FROM 1865 TO HIS DEATH continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi by Horace Waller (London: John Murray, 1874) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and a profusion of engraved plates and illustrations in the text and including two folding maps, one being very large and housed in a map pocket at the end of Volume I. 8vo, handsomely bound in jet-black half morocco over marbled boards, the spines gilt lettered in two compartments and with raised bands ruled in blind, edges untrimmed. xvi, 360, 6 ads; viii, 346, 20 ads. pp. A great set, fine and attractive inside and out.
THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE LAST JOURNALS OF LIVINGSTONE. The work contains a detailed description of Livingstone's last expedition, which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873. "The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Burton, and Baker, but the idea grew upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the 'fountains' of Herodotus." (EB). |
