Live auction - Lot 651
How I found Livingstone. Travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa.
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890
Hammer price: €
160
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: lxxix-552 pp.; 20 pl.
Contemp. tree marbled sheep by Pickering, gilt supralibros within double gilt decorated frame, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, blue marbled endpapers and edges. Good copy in a nice binding.
Clean copy of Stanley's quest on finding Livingstone with a memoir introducing the latter person. Ill. with 4 full-page pl. out of text, a folding map and 15 pl. in-text.
Ref. BL. - BnF (1st ed.). - Not in Opac KBR.
Prov. Ladies' College Bath (prize binding with gilt supralibros on front cover). - Maude Fry (pasted-in prize by Ladies' College, 1899).