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Lot 184

Life & Explorations of Dr. Livingstone 1875

Estimate: $100 - $300

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For your consideration is this well preserved copy of author John S. Roberts's "The Life & Explorations of Dr. Livingstione; Including Extracts From Dr. Livingstones Last Journal, By Rev. E.A. Manning", published by E.C. Allen & Co. Augusta, ME, 1875. The book is decoratively bound in green cloth with gilt decoration and title; contains a tissue-guarded portrait of Dr. Livingstone, illustrated plates and a map of Southern Africa. David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) was a British physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion. Book is in very good condition, having new paste downs; measures 5.25" x 7.5" 1.5".

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