''YAKUSU'' THE VERY HEART OF AFRICA - BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PROTESTANT MISSION AT STANLEY FALLS, UPPER CONGO by Smith, H. Sutton

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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Marshall Brothers. 1st Edition. 8vo, xviii + 288pp complete with 54 b/w photographic plates (including frontispiece) and fold out map to rear. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original pictorial binding with Embossed decorated cloth with standing figure to front board and gilt lettering, in very good condition with minimal shelf wear to top of spine and a few very small scratches to rear board. Inside in very good condition with a few small spots of foxing throughout. A lovely copy.

London & Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers, Limited, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". Not Stated. The first edition of H. Sutton Smith's illustrated study on the Yakusu mission in the Congo, complete including a folding map. The first edition.A detailed account of the mission of Yakusu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The aim of the mission was the educate the local people, in the area just below the Stanley Falls.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and fifty-three plates.Collated, complete.By H. Sutton Smith, who was a part of the Baptist Missionary Society. Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Typed note to page vi, 'The author tenders his best thanks to Rev.Frank Longland for so kindly preparing the map at the end of the book.' In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Minor rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small patches of wear to the… Read More