1858 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. First American Edition - Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Slavery. Presbyterian but textually complete and usable

but textually complete and usable

By an Officer of the Medical Staff

I wish you would be so kind as to endeavour to ascertain how he is going on and to impress on him the absolute necessity of being as frugal as possible

by the Mormons

1858 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. First American Edition - Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Slavery. Presbyterian but textually complete and usableA very handsome example of the first American edition of Livingstone's most substantial and broadly distributed work. It was followed on very shortly thereafter by an edition in Philadelphia as well and was deeply influential in various fields. The work was pioneering in terms of both African Geography and Sociology, but also played an important role in helping reclaim western views of Africans as savage, and re humanizing them. Livingstone was a hero