A popular account of missionary travels and researches in South Africa

New edition, illustrated with a folding frontispiece, a title vignette with a hippopotamus, 13 plates and a folding map with the route marked in red.
Contemporary full navy blue calf binding signed Relfe brothers London at the top of the first endpaper. Raised band spine decorated. Red calf title label. Roulette on the edges and interior border. Marbled edges matching the endpaper. Arms of the Fauconberge school on the upper cover. On the pastedown, large price label of the Fauconberge school awarded in manuscript to W. L. D. Sharpin (prize for greek testament). On the facing endpaper, large prize label: The lorin greek testament prize.
Light traces of rubbing. Spine uniformly darkened. Small tear on the upper cover. One tear to the map, without loss. Very fresh, except for some foxing on the endpapers.
Very handsome copy.