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1874 · SZEPEBKS004147I — Basel: Basler Missionsbuchhandlung 1874-1880 1874. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. - 32 consecutive issues with altogether 34 engraved illustrations many full-page. All the illustrations are about the missionary activities of the Basler Mission in China West Africa and India. Included are two views of Hong Kong several pictures of African kings and warriors pictures of Indian girls Indian women Indian festivities Africans fleeing from the British Papuan huts etc. - There is also a 4-page report about the death of Livingstone: "Dr. Livingstone den bis in den Tod getreuen Freund Afrikas". - Founded in 1815 the Basler Missionsgesellschaft was the oldest cooperative German-Swiss mission society formed by the Reformed Christian Church in Basel Switzerland and the Lutheran Church in Baden Germany. - The issues bound in this volume "Neue Folge" No. 90 1974 to No. 121 February 1880 include reports to the "Kollekte-Verein fur die Basler Mission" i.e. to the financial section of the mission with dates for the settlement of accounts. - In German. - Extremely rare: not in the Union List of Serials. OCLC gives a single location only Lancaster Theological Seminary Pennsylvania. - Shelf No.: o/aa 27. Marbled boards cloth spine some wear and foxing else fine. <br/> <br/> Basler Missionsbuchhandlung 1874-1880 hardcover