Biography, British – Anon. (Roberts, John S.), The life and ...

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Biography, British – Anon. (Roberts, John S.), The life and Explorations of David Livingstone LLD Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources, 2 vols, London, Adam & Co., n.d., (1877), small 4to, Vol. I: iv + 503pp; Vol. II: v + 509-973pp, with 973 lithographic plates; dark cloth boards gilt titles; Anon. [‘The Author of the Life of General Gordon’: Hope (Eva)], Stanley and Africa, London, Walter Scott, n. d. (c. 1890), viii + 433pp, small 8vo, engraved portrait to frontis 30 other plates, gilt edges, printed endpapers, coloured and embossed red boards, gilt titles; Gibb (Sir Alexander, GBE, CB) The Story of Telford: the Rise of Civil Engineering, London, Alexander Maclehose, 1935, xxi + 357, 31 photographic illustrations, 23 maps, original buff coloured cloth binding; Low (Charles R.) ed., Captain Cook’s Three Voyages Round the World with a sketch of his Life, London, George Routledge, 1876, small 12mo, 512pp, chromolithographic frontis., binder’s label to inside rear board, black and gilt embossed red boards, gilt titles (5)