On the Threshold of Central Africa : A Record of Twenty years' Pioneering Among the Barotsi of the Upper Zambesi
por Coillard, Francois
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom
- Livreiro
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edinburgh, United Kingdom
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1897. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in brown cloth lettered in gilt on he spine and lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper board. The boards are now protected by a clear removable sleeve. Ownership inscription dated 1898 on front free end-paper. Pp.xxxiv,663 + 2pp publisher's adverts. Tissue-guarded frontispiece + 42 illustrations. Folding map with sellotape repairs. Translated from the French and edited by the author's niece, Catherine Winkworth MacKintosh. An account of the author's missionary work on the Upper Zambesi.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Blacket Books (GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 24903
- Título
- On the Threshold of Central Africa : A Record of Twenty years' Pioneering Among the Barotsi of the Upper Zambesi
- Autor
- Coillard, Francois
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1897
- Palavras-chave
- Banyai Barotsi
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