Bentley's Pioneering on the Congo w/ color map
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Author: Bentley, W. Holman
Title: Pioneering on the Congo
Place Published: [Oxford]
Publisher:The Religious Tract Society
Date Published: 1900
Description:
Author: Bentley, W. Holman
Title: Pioneering on the Congo
Place Published: [Oxford]
Publisher:The Religious Tract Society
Date Published: 1900
Description:
2 volumes. 478 + [1]; 448 pp. Numerous illustrations from sketches, photographs, and materials, one folding color map. 21.5x13.5 cm (8½x5½"), original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition.
Written by a Baptist missionary, this text covers Congo's history, slavery, and religion, as well as the inception and establishment of the mission, explorations, and other topics. A scarce two-volume set by the author of The Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language. Ex-libris bookplates and ink stamps on endpapers.
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Slight rubbing and soiling to cloth; hinges tender, tissue guards toned, minor stub tear to map; very good.
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Bentley's Pioneering on the Congo w/ color map
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