Samuel Robert Louis Gaussen [Louis GAUSSEN]
Exposé de l'état actuel des missions évangéliques chez les peuples infidèles, tel qu'on le connoissoit au commencement de l'année 1820. Se vend en faveur des missions de la Société de Basle[Account of the Present State of Evangelical Missions among the Heathen Peoples]
chez les principaux libraires|Geneva 1821|14 x 22 cm|Relié
Rare first edition, illustrated with a large folding plate containing a hand-coloured map.
Cf. Ferguson I, 814 ("Section 12 deals with Australia and New Zealand"). Not recorded by Sabin and by most other bibliographers.
Bradel case binding in paper-covered boards, beige wrappers, smooth spine with some rubbing, blind title to the spine, original plain wrappers preserved; modern binding.
Small marginal losses to the corners of the first few leaves, not affecting the text.
The plate outside the text offers a world map in which the Protestant areas are shown in pink, together with a detailed list of the various missionary societies by region or city.
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€1,700