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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 Zambesi, to the eastern ocean

Title
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 Zambesi, to the eastern ocean / by David Livingstone ; with portrait ; maps by Arrowsmith ; and numerous illustrations.
Author
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
Publication
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1857.

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TextUse in library Sc Rare 916.8-L (Livingstone, D. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. 1857)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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Additional Authors
  • Picken, Thomas, -1870
  • Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873
  • Need, Henry
  • Phillips, Henry Wyndham, 1820-1868
  • Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899
  • Holl, William, 1807-1871
  • Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903
  • John Murray (Firm), publisher.
  • William Clowes and Sons, printer.
  • Day & Son, lithographer.
Description
ix, [1], 687, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates (some folded) ill. (some col.), maps, port.; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Alternative Title
Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa.
Subjects
Note
  • "London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, and Charing Cross."--verso of title page.
  • Steel-engraved portrait by Wm. Holl after Henry Phillips; wood-engravings by J.W. Whymper after Joseph Wolf and Capt. Henry Need; tinted lithographs by T. Picken and Day & Son (cf. Abbey, J.R. Travel, 347; which has lithographs by W. West).
  • Published also under title: Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa.
Indexed In (note)
  • Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc Rare 916.8-L (Livingstone, D. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. 1857)
LCCN
05015250
OCLC
  • 1124807
  • NYPGR1124807-B
Author
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
Title
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 Zambesi, to the eastern ocean / by David Livingstone ; with portrait ; maps by Arrowsmith ; and numerous illustrations.
Imprint
London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1857.
Indexed In:
Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925, v. I, p. 908
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 5998
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 916.8-L (accession no. B429183) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Added Author
John Murray (Firm), publisher.
William Clowes and Sons, printer.
Day & Son, lithographer.
Picken, Thomas, -1870, lithographer.
Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873, engraver.
Need, Henry, illustrator.
Phillips, Henry Wyndham, 1820-1868, illustrator.
Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, illustrator.
Holl, William, 1807-1871, engraver.
Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, engraver.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Added Title
Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 916.8-L (Livingstone, D. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. 1857)
Stuart 6978
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