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VERY EARLY PRESENTATION COPY FOR THOMAS CLEGG. LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. 1813-1873. Missionary Travels...
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VERY EARLY PRESENTATION COPY FOR THOMAS CLEGG. LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. 1813-1873. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. 8vo. Folding tinted lithographed frontispiece, engraved portrait, 23 wood-engraved or lithographed plates, 2 folding maps (one in pocket at end), illustrations, 8 pp publisher's advertisements at end (dated November 1, 1857). Publisher's cloth, gilt, expert repair at joints and ends, minor foxing. Provenance: David Livingstone (presentation inscription to): Thomas Clegg, Esq (distinguished cotton manufacturer of Manchester); Property from a New England Collector. FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY LIVINGSTONE FOR THOMAS CLEGG, OCTOBER 29, 1857, 12 DAYS BEFORE PUBLICATION. Thomas Clegg (b.1827) was a Manchester cotton manufacturer who helped Livingstone understand the role and humanitarian possibilities of the African cotton industry. He was the first to be actively involved in the promotion of cotton production in Africa for the British market. In partnership with the Rev. Henry Venn of the Church Missionary Society, they sent out missionaries armed with the word of God, cotton seed and equipment, and successfully set up a Cotton Institution in Abeokuta, Nigeria. By encouraging Africans to grow cotton themselves, he hoped to discourage slave traffic by creating an alternative to the American market which was based on slavery, and also to encourage employment and peace between local tribes. The enterprise was hugely successful. By 1851 he had increased Manchester's importation of West African cotton from just ten to over three thousand bales a year. He laid his objectives and successes out in a letter dated 18 March 1858 to McGregor Laird, Chairman of the Africa Steamship Company and published in the Journal of the Society of Arts: '...my operations in Africa were commenced... with the view of putting down the slave-trade by a new but very simple method, viz., convincing the native African chiefs and others that it was their interest to employ their people instead of making war upon each other... and what Dr Livingstone tells us of the East, I can clearly see a prospect of the slave-trade being entirely starved out...' he wrote. Throughout 1857, Livingstone and his brother Charles consulted Clegg to investigate the most suitable varieties of cotton and the appropriate machinery and equipment in preparation for their second Zambezi expedition. Livingstone inscribed the first copies recorded on Octobre 26, 1857, making this one of the earliest. Abbey Travel 347; PMM 341. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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VERY EARLY PRESENTATION COPY FOR THOMAS CLEGG. LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. 1813-1873. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. 8vo. Folding tinted lithographed frontispiece, engraved portrait, 23 wood-engraved or lithographed plates, 2 folding maps (one in pocket at end), illustrations, 8 pp publisher's advertisements at end (dated November 1, 1857). Publisher's cloth, gilt, expert repair at joints and ends, minor foxing. Provenance: David Livingstone (presentation inscription to): Thomas Clegg, Esq (distinguished cotton manufacturer of Manchester); Property from a New England Collector. FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY LIVINGSTONE FOR THOMAS CLEGG, OCTOBER 29, 1857, 12 DAYS BEFORE PUBLICATION. Thomas Clegg (b.1827) was a Manchester cotton manufacturer who helped Livingstone understand the role and humanitarian possibilities of the African cotton industry. He was the first to be actively involved in the promotion of cotton production in Africa for the British market. In partnership with the Rev. Henry Venn of the Church Missionary Society, they sent out missionaries armed with the word of God, cotton seed and equipment, and successfully set up a Cotton Institution in Abeokuta, Nigeria. By encouraging Africans to grow cotton themselves, he hoped to discourage slave traffic by creating an alternative to the American market which was based on slavery, and also to encourage employment and peace between local tribes. The enterprise was hugely successful. By 1851 he had increased Manchester's importation of West African cotton from just ten to over three thousand bales a year. He laid his objectives and successes out in a letter dated 18 March 1858 to McGregor Laird, Chairman of the Africa Steamship Company and published in the Journal of the Society of Arts: '...my operations in Africa were commenced... with the view of putting down the slave-trade by a new but very simple method, viz., convincing the native African chiefs and others that it was their interest to employ their people instead of making war upon each other... and what Dr Livingstone tells us of the East, I can clearly see a prospect of the slave-trade being entirely starved out...' he wrote. Throughout 1857, Livingstone and his brother Charles consulted Clegg to investigate the most suitable varieties of cotton and the appropriate machinery and equipment in preparation for their second Zambezi expedition. Livingstone inscribed the first copies recorded on Octobre 26, 1857, making this one of the earliest. Abbey Travel 347; PMM 341. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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