SOUTH AFRICA. Livingstone, DAVID. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; 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... London (J. Murray) 1857.

8vo (230x150 mm.). xi, (1), 687, (1), 8 pp. Folding colour lithograph frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 1 portrait, 1 folding panorama, 25 woodengraved plates (complete acccording to plate index, plates slight foxing in margin).
Publisher's brown cloth. Untrimmed. A few pages loose, partly some foxing. Traces of erased bookplate, some notes on endpaper. Several stamps George Findlay. Bookplate C. C. Rosenbröijer.

First edition.

With publisher's advertisment 8 pages dated 1857.

David Livingstone (1813-73), Scottish missionary and perhaps one of the greatest of the African explorers. His first and third travel are most important, where he explored vast regions of Central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before. (Printing and the mind of Man, 341.)