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Auction #129 begins on 26 Feb 2026

Soga (John Henderson)

THE AMA-XOSA: LIFE AND CUSTOMS [signed]

[signature of J.H. Soga]

Published: Lovedale Press, Lovedale, [1931]

Reserve: $350

Approximately:

Estimate: $500-600

Bidding opens: 26 Feb 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 5 Mar 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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xvii + 431pages, frontis., map, 31 plates, foxing throughout, ownership signature on front endpaper, maroon cloth, lacks dust-jacket

Signature of J. Henderson Soga cut from a letter and pasted to the front endpaper. 

"John Henderson Soga was the second son of Tiyo Soga. Soga studied at the Glasgow University and the United Presbyterian Church Divinity Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland. Upon his arrival in South Africa, he was ordained as a missionary and stationed in the Mount Frere district in the Transkei. Soga retired from this post in 1936. He spent the last years of his life in Southampton, England. It was in that city that he and his family were killed in an air raid during World War 2." From the University of Pretoria: https://www.up.ac.za/sacomposers/soga-john

  • Size: 8vo (245 x 140mm)


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