LIVINGSTONE, David.

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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; First edition of this emblematic account of African exploration in the 19th century and of the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted for the scale and complexity of his career in Africa" (ODNB). Missionary Travels describes the first of his three major expeditions, "in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east... During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before" (PMM).This copy is Bradlow's variant 7: the frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are wood-engravings by Whymper; the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. Gaston Renard called this variant the third issue, but as many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established: it is now accepted that "the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is not the first issue" (Bradlow).This copy has the bookplate of Sir James Lamont (1828-1913) who was an Arctic yachtsman and travel writer. Lamont spent time in South Africa serving with the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders Regiment in 1846-48, later returning on hunting trips. "His attractively w

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