Ashe robert p (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. New ed of 1894 ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: Good. Boards have some wear, fading to spine. Content has light toning. Owner message to prelim page. No DJ.

in-8vo, frontispiece + XV + 291 p., 3 plates + 1 folding map, small legacy stamp on front endpaper: Guggisberg, original publisher?s red pictorial clothbound, spine slightly faded, light wear at top of spine. Fine copy. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. The scarce first edition of Robert Pickering Ashe's account of his missionary work in Uganda, and his encounters with two Kings of the nation. With a signed letter from the author. The scarce first edition of this work, with a loosely inserted signed letter from the author, addressed to one J. C. Smith Esq.The letter, undated, reads 'My dear Smith, I am so sorry to have missed you [.] I particularly wished to see you for old times sake & to shake your hand [.] I will call on my way back to the station & return to town by an early hour, Yours affectionately, R. P. Ashe'.In this work, Ashe documents his six-year missionary work in Eastern Equatorial Africa, particularly in the Buganda region near Lake Victoria. He provides accounts of his interactions with the Buganda kingdom's royal courts under Kings Mutesa I and Mwanga II, describing their reigns and court life.Illustrated with four plates, and a folding colour map. Collated, complete.With a thirty-two page catalogue to the rear dated April 1888.With the bookplate of the Marazion Library to the front pastedown, and their stamp throughout.Ashe was a missionary in Uganda, joining the Church Missionary Society in 1882. He's generally considered to be a pioneer missionary, working closely alongside Alexander Murdoch Mackay, or 'Mackay of Uganda'. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip age toned and small remnants of paper label to back strip. Cockling to fore edge of tail of front board. Front hinge a touch strained to tail, but firmly held. Library bookplate to front pastedown, with blind stamp to half title, and ink stamp to recto of frontispiece. Internally, generally bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd library stamp throughout, and with small closed tear to folding map. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

or, Life by the Shores of Victoria Nyanza. Being an Account of a Residence of Six Years in Eastern Equatorial Africa.First edition. Folding map & 4 plates. 8vo. Particularly fine original pictorial cloth, gilt. xiii, 354, 32adspp. London, Sampson Low.