[(Anon) Roberts, John S.; Manning, E. A.]. The Life and Explorations of Dr. Livingstone Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources. London: Published by Adam & Co. 14 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, and 4, Clavering Place, Newcastle on Tyne, n.d. [ca. 1875].
First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Large quarto (320 x 240 x 55 mm.), pp. viii, 632 + plates. Bound in publisher's original stunning full morocco with bevelled board edges, covers elaborately blocked in gilt, with cover title: The life & explorations of Dr. Livingstone, the great missionary traveller. All page edges gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Colour frontispiece of Livingstone meeting Stanley. Added colour-illustrated title-page with imprint: London & Newcastle on Tyne : Adam & Co. 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (tinted lithographs). The work compiled from reliable sources by John S. Roberts; including extracts from Dr. Livingstone's last journal by E.A. Manning. Mendelssohn dates this work as 1875, based on a letter of Nov. 16, 1874 on p. 622. Condition: Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Mild rubbing to extremities. Contents near immaculate and without previous ownership markings. Very good and scarce thus.
