Young E D Revised Rev Horace (3 results)

Condition: Very Good. . Very Good dust jacket. Facsimile edition. Limited edition, #534/750. In protective mylar cover. (Central Africa, description and travel).

A Facsimile edition of the 1868 text published by the Society of Malawi in association with the Royal Geographical Society. David Livingstone was on his third, and final expedition to Africa in search of the source of the Nile."While journeying along the southern shores of Lake Malawi his companions deserted him and returned to the coast with a plausible but fabricated tale of his murder by marauding Ngoni.The Royal Geographical Society [sponsors of the expedition] remained unconvinced of the varacity of the murder report. Lieutenant Young, who had been with Lvingstone on his second expedition to Lake Malawi in 1863, volunteered to lead an expedition sponsored by the society to ascertain the truth of the allegation. This book, first published in London in 1868, is his narrative of the search for the missionary." Limited edition of 750 numbered copies of which this is number 245. Pp.xii/262, folding map to rear, occasional reproductions of engraved illustrations. Red cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. vi, 262pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear, folding map at rear, bw ills. Original bevelled green cloth boards with gilt vignette to front, titled in gilt to spine, hinge starting at pp96, light foxing to prelims, handwritten prize presentation (for Industry) on front blank dated 1872. Royal Navy Lieutenant E. D. Young went to Africa in search of David Livingstone who had been reported to be lost while searching for the origins of the Nile. Henry Faulkner joined the expedition mainly to hunt. His shooting of elephant, buffalo and hippo in what is now Malawi and around Lake Nyasa are included in this volume. The author had been with Lvingstone on his second expedition to Lake Malawi in 1863 and volunteered to lead an expedition to determine whether the allegation of Livingstone's murder were true. A pleasing copy of this scarce volume relating to Livingstone. Size: 8vo.