Research Catalog

Title

Missionary labours and scenes in southern Africa / by Robert Moffat, fifty years an agent of the London Missionary Society in that continent ; with portrait of the author and engravings on wood.

Author

Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883

Publication

London : John Snow & Co., 2, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, [187-?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• John Snow & Co., publisher
• William Clowes and Sons, printer
• Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner

Description

[4], 162 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port.; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883
• London Missionary Society
• Missions > South Africa
• Black people > South Africa
• Khoikhoi (African people)
• San (African people)
• Tswana (African people)
• Rolong (African people)
• South Africa > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• "London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross."--printer statement on verso of title page, and on colophon, p. 162.
• Text printed in two columns.

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp: Schomburg Collection. With the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local note

• has ink stamp on title page: H.T. Cooke & Son, Warwick.

Call Number

Sc 266-M (Moffat, R. Missionary labours and scenes)

OCLC

25651908

Author

Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883.

Title

Missionary labours and scenes in southern Africa / by Robert Moffat, fifty years an agent of the London Missionary Society in that continent ; with portrait of the author and engravings on wood.

Imprint

London : John Snow & Co., 2, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, [187-?]

Edition

Thirty-fifth thousand.

Provenance

Copy in Sc 266-M (accession no. B429209) with the ink stamp: Schomburg Collection. With the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc 266-M has ink stamp on title page: H.T. Cooke & Son, Warwick. NN

Added Author

John Snow & Co., publisher.

William Clowes and Sons, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

H.T. Cooke and Son, associated name.

Research Call Number

Sc 266-M (Moffat, R. Missionary labours and scenes)