LIVINGSTONE'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa
by Livingstone, David 05e
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- FAIR book. READING copy only. Worn. Moderate foxing throughout.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Phila: Bradley. FAIR book. READING copy only. Worn. Moderate foxing throughout.. 1861 (1859cp). ABRIDED ED.. Hardcover. FAIR book. GOOD inside. Tight. Text & plates collated complete. Pebbled brown cloth, lion's embossed image on both boards. . Heavily worn cover, small damp stain on text block top edge. Illustrated with 12 full page plates and 4 in text. This edition was sold as an affordable edition. The UK 1st had 22 plates and fold out maps & charts. This abridged edition with NO FOLD OUTS, but still, all pages & plates complete for this edition. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002356
- Title
- LIVINGSTONE'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa
- Author
- Livingstone, David 05e
- Illustrator
- Frontis, 11 full page plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FAIR book. READING copy only. Worn. Moderate foxing throughout.
- Edition
- ABRIDED ED.
- Publisher
- Bradley
- Place of Publication
- Phila
- Date Published
- 1861 (1859cp)
- Keywords
- FAIR book. GOOD inside. Tight. Text & plates collated complete., Pebbled brown cloth, lion's embossed image on both boards.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....