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Livingstone (David)

Auction #77
05.09.2019
Schätzpreis
300 $ - 400 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 27

Livingstone (David)

Auction #77
05.09.2019
Schätzpreis
300 $ - 400 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Livingstone (David)
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA (Bradlow Africana Collectanea)
Published: John Murray London, 1861
Edition: First Edition
ix plus 436pp. Original cloth hardcover with faded gilt title to spine and gilt vignette of a Tsetsi fly to front board. Fold-out frontis of the Victoria Falls and several beautiful woodcut engravings interspersed throughout the text, all present as called for. Fold-out map at rear. Edna and Frank Bradlow Ex Libris Past-down to title-page verso. Some signs of wear and bumping to cover extremities, flexible-gum reinforcements to spine-ends, fading to spine. Gift inscription to front free EP and name tag attached to front fixed EP. Light foxing to frontis, title page, last few index pages and map. Text is clean and tight throughout. True first edition/impression of Livingstone's 'A Popular Account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' in that this book is minus the publisher ads at the end. Other 1861 dated but unstated 'later impressions' included 16 pages of publisher ads. It is exactly this kind of thing that inspired the Bradlows to do further research, hence their resulting 'Bradlow variants'. Frank Rosslyn Bradlow (1913 - 2000) 'Frank Bradlow was a leading collector and consultant on Africana. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and at the University of Witwatersrand where he was awarded a B. Comm. degree as the best graduate of the year. In 1934, after leaving university, he joined Bradlows Stores which his father, born in Smorgon (Belarus), had founded in 1903. He worked in various branches of the firm including those in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) which his father had opened after the Nationalist Government in South Africa had passed the Quota Act. This is where his interest in collection Africana started, in 1938. In World War II Frank Bradlow served in the Imperial Light Horse in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Egypt, losing the sight of his left eye through a shrapnel wound in 1942. After being discharged from the army in 1943 he went back to the family business. In 1945 he settled in Cape Town and married Edna Rom. They had three children. At the end of February 1981 he retired from the family business and became an Africana consultant, advising clients on art and books. He had numerous publications, both his own and with his wife, Dr Edna Bradlow. These included books, reviews, journal and newspaper articles, introductions and texts for reprints of the great classics and for newer publications. He served in many public offices, including serving on Council of the University of Cape Town for almost twenty years. His interests were recognized by the award of various honours.' https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php/frank-bradlow-papers-2 Binding Condition: Good plus Overall Condition: Good plus Size: 194 x 135 x 30 mm

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 27
Auktion:
Datum:
05.09.2019
Auktionshaus:
Clarke's Africana & Rare Books Paul Mills
P.O. Box 186
7848 Constantia
Südafrika
support@antiquarianauctions.com
+27 (0)21-794-0600
Beschreibung:

Livingstone (David)
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA (Bradlow Africana Collectanea)
Published: John Murray London, 1861
Edition: First Edition
ix plus 436pp. Original cloth hardcover with faded gilt title to spine and gilt vignette of a Tsetsi fly to front board. Fold-out frontis of the Victoria Falls and several beautiful woodcut engravings interspersed throughout the text, all present as called for. Fold-out map at rear. Edna and Frank Bradlow Ex Libris Past-down to title-page verso. Some signs of wear and bumping to cover extremities, flexible-gum reinforcements to spine-ends, fading to spine. Gift inscription to front free EP and name tag attached to front fixed EP. Light foxing to frontis, title page, last few index pages and map. Text is clean and tight throughout. True first edition/impression of Livingstone's 'A Popular Account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' in that this book is minus the publisher ads at the end. Other 1861 dated but unstated 'later impressions' included 16 pages of publisher ads. It is exactly this kind of thing that inspired the Bradlows to do further research, hence their resulting 'Bradlow variants'. Frank Rosslyn Bradlow (1913 - 2000) 'Frank Bradlow was a leading collector and consultant on Africana. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and at the University of Witwatersrand where he was awarded a B. Comm. degree as the best graduate of the year. In 1934, after leaving university, he joined Bradlows Stores which his father, born in Smorgon (Belarus), had founded in 1903. He worked in various branches of the firm including those in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) which his father had opened after the Nationalist Government in South Africa had passed the Quota Act. This is where his interest in collection Africana started, in 1938. In World War II Frank Bradlow served in the Imperial Light Horse in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Egypt, losing the sight of his left eye through a shrapnel wound in 1942. After being discharged from the army in 1943 he went back to the family business. In 1945 he settled in Cape Town and married Edna Rom. They had three children. At the end of February 1981 he retired from the family business and became an Africana consultant, advising clients on art and books. He had numerous publications, both his own and with his wife, Dr Edna Bradlow. These included books, reviews, journal and newspaper articles, introductions and texts for reprints of the great classics and for newer publications. He served in many public offices, including serving on Council of the University of Cape Town for almost twenty years. His interests were recognized by the award of various honours.' https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php/frank-bradlow-papers-2 Binding Condition: Good plus Overall Condition: Good plus Size: 194 x 135 x 30 mm

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 27
Auktion:
Datum:
05.09.2019
Auktionshaus:
Clarke's Africana & Rare Books Paul Mills
P.O. Box 186
7848 Constantia
Südafrika
support@antiquarianauctions.com
+27 (0)21-794-0600
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