1857 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. Autograph Corrected Proof of His Missionary Classic! Presbyterian Very handsomely preserved

Very handsomely preserved

Milne died on the 2nd of June last

and a burden too heavy for us to bear

but a rather nice copy of a scarce work

A very rare survivor

1857 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. Autograph Corrected Proof of His Missionary Classic! Presbyterian Very handsomely preservedWonderful opportunity to own a piece of David Livingstone history! The present is a preserved section of Livingstone's classic, "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa," published in 1857. This is a proof sheet sent to Livingstone for revision before the publication of the first edition. The proof reads "The instruments I carried, though few, were the [be]st of their kind. A sextan[t], by the famed makers [Tr]oughton and Sims, of Fleet