The Last Journals of David Livingstone,

£250 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Horace Waller was associated with Livingstone in the 1850s in the Zambezi. After Stanley succeeded in discovering Livingstone, the journals were given to Waller for publication. Waller himself was well-known for his vigourous anti-slavery campaign. Tenth thousand; 2 vols in 1, 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 21 full-page plates including frontispieces, 24 further in-text illustrations, 2 folding colour maps, 1 of which large in rear pocket, ownership inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spines, inner hinges cracked but holding, spotting to frontispiece and title, a very good copy; xvi, 360, viii, 346 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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