David Livingstone 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. First edition. Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. He "both embodied and transcended the nineteenth-century tension between religion and science, and it was this which accounted for the scale and complexity of his career in Africa" Condition: Ex. Library copy in fair plus condition. Hardcover Original moderate brown sand-grain cloth, spine lettered gilt, spine and boards panelled in blind, brown surface-paper endpapers. Spine ends and inner hinges repaired (ends also lightly chipped). Binding in fair condition, pages & plate clean. Wood-engraved folding frontispiece, engraved portrait of Livingstone, 22 wood-engraved plates, folding geological cross section, 2 folding maps (one in endpocket), wood engravings in the text; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Please view & used all photos for further condition detail. Ship tracked & insured.