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Rare and modern books

Stanley

HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa, Including Four Months' Residence With Dr. Livingstone

Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1872

1815.00 €

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(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1872
Place of printing
London
Author
Stanley
Publishers
Sampson, Low, Marston and Company
Edition
A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE AUTHOR?S FIRST BOOK AND THE LANDMARK
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

The second state of the first edition and an early issue, formatted as the first edition and probably just a continued issuance of the first with a new type slug on the title-page, stating ?second edition?. With 28 full page illustrations, 26 illustrations in the text, 6 maps and plans (including one large folding map). Thick, large 8vo, publisher?s original brick-red cloth elaborately and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the cover and spine. xxiii, 736, 8 pp ads. A very pleasing, handsome and solid copy of this handsome book, unusually sturdy, the cloth bright and clean, the gilt and black decorations in fine order, unusually clean and fresh, the rear inner hinge sometime mended, light wear to the tips.