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Auction #133 begins on 20 Aug 2026

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LIVRE D'OR DE LA MISSION DU LESSOUTO

Soixante-quinze ans de l'histoire d'une tribu sud-africaine 1833-1908. Contributeurs: Frank Puaux, Hermann Dieterlen, Édouard Jacottet, and Jean Bianquis. Avec 262 gravures dans le texte, une planche et une carte hors texte

Published: Maison des Missions Évangéliques, Paris, 1912

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $50/60

Bidding opens: 20 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 27 Aug 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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First Edition: xxviii, 693 pages, numerous photographic text-illustrations and full-page plates, large folding lithographed map of Basutoland at the end, original light blue cloth fraying at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners, contents bright, a very good copy.

A history and ethnographical survey documenting seventy-five years of the Sotho nation and the expansion of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris. Published as a commemorative jubilee souvenir, the work provides primary accounts of regional tribal leadership, language, and the conflicts between the Basotho people, the Boers, and the British.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (282 x 215 mm)


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