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    By Robert Moffat
    London   John Snow
    9" by 5.5" xvi, 624pp
    A first edition of Robert Moffat's popular account of his work as a missionary in Africa from the mid-nineteenth century. In a full calf binding, with the fold-out map and colour frontis present.
    By Robert Moffat

    1842 Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

    London   John Snow
    9" by 5.5" xvi, 624pp
    A first edition of Robert Moffat's popular account of his work as a missionary in Africa from the mid-nineteenth century. In a full calf binding, with the fold-out map and colour frontis present.
    £570.00
    : 1.5kgs / : LTH7-F-2
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    Description

    First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

    With a fold-out map of Africa. With twenty engravings, including a colour frontispiece, Mission Premises, printed in oil colours, by George Baxter. "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" -DNB. Robert Moffat, 1795-1883, was a missionary in Africa and linguist.

    Condition

    In a full calf binding. Externally, rubbed, with slight loss to the top of the spine. There is a tidemark to the rear board. The joints are starting. The hinges are strained. Internally, firmly bound, with light marginal browning and some foxing, prominent to the plates, and the first and last few pages.

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