[AFRICA MISSIONS] The Life of Africaner, a Namacqua Chief c1835

The Life of Africaner, a Namacqua Chief; Happy Death of a Madagascar Youth; The Orphan. New York: American Sunday School Union, c. 1835. [10853]

Three titles bound as one book. The first two are 35 continuous pages; the last is 16 pages. Black cloth spine with marbled boards, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, lacks the free end papers (blanks), the blank page behind that last title is filled with pencil scribbles. Wood engraved frontispiece of An African Village. Shaken, nothing detached. Dampstains in the center margins of the first several leaves. Fair. Hardcover.

Christian lessons for children drawn from the life and conversion of an African warrior, a Madagascan student in England, and an orphan girl.