NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES: AND OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASS 1858 - 1864
by David and Charles Livingstone
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866. first edition. Hardcover. Very good. 6 x 9 in. xxii, 638 pp, plus publisher's adverts. frontis, text plates and folding map at rear. Publisher's red buckram with gilt spine titles. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, spine moderately toned. Front board has a faint wrinkle to the cloth, lower corner has a bit of a ding. Corners and spne ends have light wear. Binding tight. Text very clean, bright and unmarked. Folding map excellent. Expl. RGR.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51716
- Title
- NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES: AND OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASS 1858 - 1864
- Author
- David and Charles Livingstone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1866
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Buckram
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- Spine
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- Tight
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