The Last Journals Of David Livingstone. In Central Africa, From 1865 To His Death. Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi Waller, Horace (1833-1896)

[History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (23 x 16 cm), pp. XVI; 360; 6, publisher's advertisements. Pp. V; [1]; 346; 20, publisher's advertisements. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt tooling and lettering to spine and front-board. 21 illustrated plates overall, and many in-text illustrations throughout. One fold-out map to each volume. Vol I) Marking to pastedown (possibly from an old bookplate), spotting to preliminaries, previous owner's name to front blank, and in blue ink to verso of title page. Light spotting throughout, sunning to boards and spine, one tear to crease of fold-out map. Very good. Vol II) Marking and tearing to pastedown with glue staining/tearing to flyleaf and frontispiece, previous owner's name to frontispiece recto, and in blue ink to verso of title page, spotting throughout, sunning to boards and spine, bump to edge of front-board. Very good. Horace Waller was an English antislavery activist, missionary and clergyman, and with the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, he went out to Africa in 1861 journeying to similar regions as David Livingstone. These books compile the diaries of Livingstone between the years of 1866 to April 1873 (when he died in Ilala). Livingstone was a prolific diary writer and charts the itinerary of his days, routes, botanical notes, calculations, the landscape, and much more on his exploration to find the source of the Nile.