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Day Dawn in Africa; or, Progress of the Prot. Epis. Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa
by Scott, Anna M
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 12mo. [9], iv-viii, [3], 12-312, [6] pp. Original dark brown blindstamped publisher's cloth with palm tree design stamped in gold on the front board, gilt decoration and lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by a frontispiece with tissue guard, eleven additional plates with tissue guards (back-to-back facing plates share one tissue guard), and a fold-out map of the Cape Palmas region. Ownership signature of W. W. Fowler, a missionary at the Santee Sioux Agency in the late 19th century, on the free front endpaper. An account of mid-19th century missionary work in the Cape Palmas region of western Africa in what is now Liberia. Near Very Good with gilt largely rubbed away on spine, rubbing and minor wear to boards, scattered foxing throughout, small chip to the bottom corner of one plate and the next leaf, and a few leaves with corner creases.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00009612
- Title
- Day Dawn in Africa; or, Progress of the Prot. Epis. Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa
- Author
- Scott, Anna M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1858
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Leaves
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
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