Livingstone's Travels and Researches in south Africa
by LIVINGSTONE, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv, 442 pp., 14 pp., frontis, illustrated with engravings, foxing throughout, soiling to edges, rubbing to boards, lower portion of spine (about one inch) is partly missing, rubbing to upper spine, rubbing to board edges, soiling to eps. [Including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean, to which is added 'A Historical Sketch of discoveries in Africa'.] [00]
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- Bookseller
- J.C. Bell (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65-4
- Title
- Livingstone's Travels and Researches in south Africa
- Author
- LIVINGSTONE, David
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.W. Bradley
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1860
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- African Exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; History; Travel;
Terms of Sale
J.C. Bell
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About the Seller
J.C. Bell
Biblio member since 2005
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
About J.C. Bell
We are a home-based book business and have been selling books online since 1998. We are currently in the process of cataloguing several more thousandused and antiquarian books.
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