1909-1922 A Collection of Missionary Accounts from Africa
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
Four volumes. A collection of records of time spent as a missionary in Africa, with reference to the geographical area, the tribes and villagers, the spread of religion, and more. This set includes: In the Heart of Savagedom: Reminiscences of Life and Adventure During a Quarter of a Century of Pioneering Missionary Labours in the Wilds of East Equatorial Africa, 1922. Third edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixty-three plates. Collated complete. Written by Mrs Stuart Watt, a British Christian missionary and author. Dr. Laws of Livingstonia, 1909. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty images. Collated complete. Written by James Johnston, a British missionary, early photographer, doctor and explorer. Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands, 1922. New edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four plates, and two maps. Collated complete. Written by Herbert Strang, the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely and Charles James L'Estrange, who specialized in writing adventure stories for boys, both historical and modern-day. A Congo Pathfinder: W. Holman Bentley Among African Savages, 1914. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, two colour plates, and twenty-one black-and-white images across sixteen plates. Collated complete. Written by John H. Weeks, a British Baptist Missionary in the Lower Congo region.
Condition
In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown and contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of In the Heart of Savagedom. Front free endpaper lacking to Dr. Laws of Livingstonia, with frontispiece detached but present. School prize bookplate to the front pastedown of A Congo Pathfinder.
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