Missionary Labours and Scenes in South Africa
London: John Snow, 1842. First Edition. Full leather. (2nd thousand). 8vo, full light brown leather: front and rear panels diced calf, spine has raised bands w/dec blindstamped design between bands, dark leather label w/gilt title Marbled foredges w/matching marbled endpapers, color frontis, vignette title page, folding map in fine condition -- Light rubbing and a few scuff marks to leather extremities, bottom corners bumped, light foxing to plates - Some foxing, text mostly unfoxed, binding is tight and straight. Very good. Item #361
Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (1842) is an autobiographical account of missionary activity among the Tswana people of South Africa by the Scottish missionary and linguist Robert Moffat. It attracted a wide Victorian readership and became a classic narrative of missionary activity in Africa.
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