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Comparative vocabulary of African languages, 1854

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Comparative vocabulary of African languages, 1854

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Author: Koelle, S.W.
Title: Polyglotta Africana; or, A Comparative Vocabulary of Nearly Three Hundred Words and Phrases, in more than one hundred distinct African languages
Place Published: London
Publisher:Church Missionary House
Date Published: 1854
Description:

vi, errata slip, 24, 188 pp. With large hand-colored and folding lithograph map of The Tropical Regions of Africa: 58x87.6 cm (22¾x34½"). (Folio) 48.5x29.6 cm (19x11½"), leatherette with original title cloth swatch, morocco spine label.

A list of basic vocabulary in approximately 160 different African languages and dialects. Polyglotta Africana was an important step in advancing philology to the study of African language. It also marked an early stage in the scramble for Africa and the souls of Africans, "The following Comparative Vocabulary owes its origin to the laudable endeavour of the Church Missionary Society to bring the light of divine truth to the still benighted continent of Africa." - Preface.

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Stains to cloth title swatch; leaves brittle with chips and tears at edges, some leaves detached and laid in, some starting; some chips, tears and splits around map margins, small stubtear; about very good overall.

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