ON THE THRESHOLD OF CENTRAL AFRICA

translated from the French and edited by his niece Catherine Winkworth Macintosh with forty four illustrations from photographs by the author

First Edition. 663 pages, frontispiece of the author, portrait, folding map slightly torn at the first fold, numerous illustrations, several pages unopened, fore edge uncut, original brown cloth with gilt vignette and title on upper cover, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 1 page 351.An account of the experiences and adventures of this well-known missionary, with a description of the social and political status of the natives of Rhodesia and Zambesi, &c, at the close of the nineteenth century. The work is divided into four Parts, which embrace (I.) The Banyai Expedition, 1877-1879; (II.) The Barotsi Expedition, 1882-1887; (III.) At Sefula, 1887-1892; (IV.) Lealuyi, 1892-1896.

François Coillard (17 July 1834 in Asnières-les-Bourges, Cher, France – 27 May 1904 in Lealui, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia) was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Coillard