The Last Journals of David Livingstone,

£750 · 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 vigorous anti-slavery campaign. First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (23 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, armorial bookplates to pastedowns; publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spines, touch of rubbing, spines a little faded, still a near-fine set; xvi, 360, 6 (ads. dated December 1874); viii, 346, 20 (ads. dated November 1874) pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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