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Author
David Livingstone (1813–1873)
Illustrator
Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873, ill
Need, Henry, ill
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Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, ill
Picken, Thomas, d. 1870, lithographer
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Title
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
Volume c4
Publisher
London : J. Murray
Description
Published also under title: Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa
"London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons"--Verso of t.p
Illustrations drawn by J.W. Whymper and Capt. H. Need, R.N. and lithographed by T. Picken and Day & Son
Includes index
Mendelssohn, S. South African bib.
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SCNHRB c.1 39088009903535 has presentation inscription in ms. ink on front free endpaper: Mrs. Vavasseur with the kindest salutations of her affectionate brother David Livingstone, London, 29th Oct., 1857
SCNHRB c.1 is extra-illustrated with a photograph of Livingstone mounted on a blank leaf inserted between p. [1] (2nd group) and p. [1] (3rd group); the back of the photograph is inscribed in ink: "The best likeness[?] of Livingstone I have yet seen, Robert Moffat", with photographer's stamp: T. & R. Annan, Glasgow
SCNHRB c.1 matches variant no. 2 in the chart on p. 14 of Frank R. Bradlow's article, "The variants of the 1857 edition of Livingstone's Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" (in Livingstone, 1873-1973, ed. B.W. Lloyd, p. 6-19), with the unrevised text on p. 8, the tinted lithographs signed by T. Picken and Day & Son (frontis., plate opposite p. 66, and plate opposite p. 225), and a presentation inscription dated "29.10.1857", however, the SCNHRB copy also includes the index which is lacking in variant no. 2's description
SCNHRB c.1 has bookplates: 1. Ex libris Wilfred Thesiger; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Russell E. Train Collection of Africana
SCNHRB c.1 has contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt, signed: Bound by J. Larkins; in custom leather clamshell box with raised bands and gilt-lettered spine
SCNHRB c.2 39088012041240 matches variant no. 1
SCNHRB c.2 stamped on 2nd front free endpaper: Stow Reading Room
SCNHRB c.2,3 & 4 have 8 p. of publisher's adverstisements bound-in at end
SCNHRB c.3 39088012041281 matches variant no. 2
SCNHRB c.3 has bookseller's label: Upham and Beet; bookbinder's label: Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London
SCNHRB c.4 39088012041323 matches variant no. 7
SCNHRB c.4 has ms. ink inscription on t.p.: Marmaduke G. Howell
SCNHRB c.2,3,4,5 have bookplates: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Russell E. Train Africana Collection
SCNHRB c.2,3 & 4 in original blind-stamped publisher's cloth binding, title in gilt on spine. C.2 has patterned endpapers, c.3-4 have brown paper endpapers
SCNHRB c.5 39088012041364 matches variant 2
SCNHRB c.5 has prize school binding of red polished calf with gilt emblem of St. Leonards School on front cover; gilt lettering and gilt ornamental spine; marbled edges and with fore-edge painting of Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope; marbled endpapers
SCNHRB c.6 is bound in 2 v. (39088012041406, 39088012041331) and matches variants 3 and 8, with both the extra leaf, no. 8*, and index
SCNHRB c.6 has tipped-in v.1 ink ms. letter from the author to publisher Robert Cooke, dated 10 August 1857, and ink ms. note, "with the kindest regards of David Livingstone London 20 Feby 1858". Bound in at the end of v.2 is a 27 p. pamphlet of the "Farewell Livingstone Festival". Laid-in (now removed) is an ink ms. letter from John Murray IV, dated 22 April 1893, identifying Robert Cooke as the nephew of John Murray II and the business partner and cousin of John Murray III. Laid-in also are magazine and newspaper clippings. See library staff for details
SCNHRB c.6 bound in plain calf (with extra t.p. and portrait as frontispiece to v.2), marbled edges; marbled endpapers. Housed in dark blue cloth box with calf edge mimicking the spines of the 2 vols

Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873; Missions
Language English
Publication date 1857
publication_date QS:P577,+1857-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: biodiversity
Accession number
missionarytravel04livi
Notes leaf 756-759: text lost in binding. irregular page numbering
Authority file  OCLC: 841410945
Source
Internet Archive identifier: missionarytravel04livi
https://archive.org/download/missionarytravel04livi/missionarytravel04livi.pdf
Provenance:
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Livingstone, David, 1813-1873, inscriber. DSI
Vavasseur, Mrs., fl. 1857, former owner. DSI
Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910- former owner. DSI
Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883, annotator. DSI
Larkins, J., binder. DSI
Howell, Marmaduke G., former owner. DSI
Cooke, Robert, former owner. DSI
Day & Son., lithographer
T. & R. Annan, photographer. DSI
William Clowes and Sons, printer
St. Leonards School, former owner. DSI
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI

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