By Robert Moffat
London   John Snow & Co
7.5" by 5" [7], 8-255, [1pp]
A lovely first edition of Robert Moffat's travel work accounting his time spent in South Africa.
By Robert Moffat

1876 Scenes and Services in South Africa

London   John Snow & Co
7.5" by 5" [7], 8-255, [1pp]
A lovely first edition of Robert Moffat's travel work accounting his time spent in South Africa.
£750.00
: 0.5kgs / : 722P7

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work.

A look into Robert Moffat's work as a missionary in South Africa throughout the nineteenth century.

Moffat was a well known Scottish Congregationalist missionary, and the father-in-law of David Livingstone.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, twenty plates, and in-text illustrations.

Collated, complete.

Front board states that this is a presentation copy from the London Missionary Society.

One page of publishers' adverts to the rear.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A couple of minor marks to the boards and spine. Light spots to the fore edge. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots.

Near Fine

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