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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Rev. Duff Macdonald

Africana; or, the Heart of Heathen Africa

Published: A. Browne & Co, Aberdeen, 1882

Edition: First edition

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2 volume set. First edition.

Publishers decorative cloth with gilt and black title and vignette on cover.

Gilt and black title and vignette on spine.

Rough-cut page edges. Decorative endpapers.

Binders label on inside, Jackson's Works, Aberdeen.

Presumable the printers were A. Brown & Co, Aberdeen.

Volume one contains chapters on material culture, arts,

religion, laws, language, etc while volume two contains

short histories and accounts of travel and the author's travel

and life at Blantyre.   

Volume I. Native Customs and Beliefs.

xvi, [i], 301 pages + frontispiece with tissue-guard.

Full-page plates with tissue-guards + in-text illustrations.

Volume II. Mission Life.

ix, [i], 371 pages

Full-page plates with tissue-guards + in-text illustrations.

The Blantyre Mission was founded in October 1876 by the 

Established Church of Scotland, and named after the small 

village in which David Livingstone was born. Under its first

leader, Rev. Duff Macdonald, the Blantyre Mission ruled over

the surrounding hills with a despotic cruelty, flogging and

killing suspected thieves and murderers without even the

pretence of a trial. The behaviour of the early Blantyre

missionaries caused a scandal in the British press, forcing

many of them to retire, and Macdonald to be replaced by

Clement Scott in 1881.

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  • Binding Condition: very good
  • Overall Condition: very good
  • Size: 23 x 15.5 cm
  • Sold By: West Clare Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Tom Moloney
  • Country: Ireland
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 0657087803
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