THE LIFE & EXPLORATIONS OF DR. LIVINGSTONE, C1875. Carefully...

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THE LIFE & EXPLORATIONS OF DR. LIVINGSTONE, C1875.
Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources. London: Published by Adam & Co. 14 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, and 4, Clavering Place, Newcastle on Tyne, n.d. [ca. 1875].

First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Large quarto (320 x 240 x 55 mm.), pp. viii, 632 + plates. Bound in publisher's original stunning full morocco with bevelled board edges, covers elaborately blocked in gilt, with cover title: The life & explorations of Dr. Livingstone, the great missionary traveller. All page edges gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Colour frontispiece of Livingstone meeting Stanley. Added colour-illustrated title-page with imprint: London & Newcastle on Tyne : Adam & Co. 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (tinted lithographs). The work compiled from reliable sources by John S. Roberts; including extracts from Dr. Livingstone's last journal by E.A. Manning. Mendelssohn dates this work as 1875, based on a letter of Nov. 16, 1874 on p. 622.