1874 The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, From 1865 to His Death

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Rebound

The first edition.

Complete in two volumes.

The final journals of noted explorer David Livingstone. 

Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map to the pocket to the rear, six plates, and in-text engravings. Six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, dated December 1874.

Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, fourteen plates, and in-text engravings. Twenty pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, dated November 1874.

Collated, complete.

After Livingstone's death in 1873, Horace Waller, the editor of this work, was given Livingstone's final journals by Henry Morton Stanley. 

These final journals of the pioneering explorer explore his final years of life in Central Africa, from 1865 to 1873. In editing these journals Waller presented a sentimental and saintly image of Livingstone. Waller was a close associate of Livingstone, and himself published works on Africa.

This edition also includes a description of Livingstone's final moments and death written by his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi. 

Institutional label of Clifton College to the front paste downs.