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Auction #135 begins on 12 Nov 2026

"L" (Lloyd C. Lucy)

AFRICAN FOLK-LORE. II

Translated from the Zulu by William Ireland.

Published: Cape Monthly Magazine, June 1878

Reserve: $50

Approximately:

Estimate: $60/70

Bidding opens: 12 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 19 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Off-print from the Cape Monthly Magazine, June 1878. 7 pages.

7 pages numbered 346-353, disbound off-print, tied with cotton thread.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Lloyd) Lucy Catherine Lloyd (7 November 1834 – 31 August 1914) was a British folklorist and linguist. With the German philologist Wilhelm Bleek, her brother-in-law, she created a 19th-century archive of ǀXam and !Kung texts.

The Content of his specific off-print consists of recorded Zulu traditional folktales, fables, and oral histories provided by unnamed Zulu informants. The text features parallel translations or editorial commentary by the American missionary William Ireland, it serves as an important early ethnographic record of Zulu mythology and linguistic structures.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (227 x 140mm)


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