antiquarian bookseller - Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller
0
“ONE OF THE GREAT
CHARACTERS OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY,
EMBODYING ALL THE VIRTUES
OF THE VICTORIAN AGE…”
71. 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; thence
across the Continent, down the
River Zambezi, to the Eastern
Ocean.
John Murray, London, 1857 [40105] £575
8vo. Neatly recased in the original brown embossed cloth,
original endpapers, spine relined. Folding frontispiece. and 22
other plates, illustrations to the text, 3 folding maps, one woodengraved
and letterpress, one lithographed, routes coloured,
one similar in an end-pocket. Some foxing and browning as
usual, but overall a very good copy, skilfully recased.
FIRST EDITION, First Issue (see Abbey: frontispiece and
plate 8 wood-engravings, 8pp. ads at the end dated 1
November 1857). Covering the first of Livingstone’s three
major expeditions, in which he followed the Zambezi,
discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the
Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west
to Mozambique in the east. “ … perhaps the greatest of
the African explorers … Livingstone’s services to African
geography … are almost unequalled. During these years
he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which
had never been seen by white men before” (PMM).
Abbey Travel 347; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p.908; PMM 341.
72. [MAYER, Luigi] AINSLIE,
Sir Robert.
A Selection of the Most Interesting
of Sir Robert Ainslie’s Celebrated
Collection of Views in Turkey in
Europe, and in Asia; Syria, Sicily,
Catalogue 57: Travel Section 2: Africa and the Middle East to Persia
The Eolian Islands; Temples of
Diana, at Ephesus; Jupiter Ammon,
in Libya, &c. &c.
London, R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, 1811 [17475] £3750
Folio, pp. [iv] (title, blank, text). Bound in quarter cloth, greygreen
paper boards, white paper label to centre of front board.
With 24 hand coloured aquatints. Cover shows signs of wear
with fading and water staining to boards, corners rubbed and
edges bumped, internally light browning to edges and some
slight soiling to margins,
This is a selection of the best illustrations from earlier
publications by Luigi Mayer, although he is not mentioned
in the titles.
1