Gobat Rev Samuel (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 480pp. Frontispiece portrait and fold out map. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Facsimile. 8vo. original brown cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked); pp. xviii, 480, with a frontispiece portrait and a folding map. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. xxxix, [1], 383pp, [1], 8pp, bound in blind stamped purple cloth, with the folding map frontis, binding and hinges tight. Previous ownership, from the British Library in Bonn, no spine markings, no pocket, shown by a small ink stamp on the front free endpaper, and the back side of the map only. Includes a small bookstore label for Librairie Orientale H. Samuelian in Paris. Covers show edge wear/tear, bumped corners and sunning. Interior has occasional pencil marking, with foxing to the preliminary pages which includes the map. From the personal collection of Dr. Brooks Ryder (1918-1995), graduate of Harvard College, Harvard School of Public Health, and Tufts Medical School. Known for his Public Health expertise overseas, throughout East Africa and Indonesia.…

Second edition. Folding map. 8vo. Original cloth, headcap worn. xxvi, 383, [20ads]pp. London, Seeley, A Swiss Protestant missionary, Gobat spent three years in Ethiopia between 1829-31. His account provides "a good description of life in Gondar and Adwa and interesting accounts of religious matters including church education and social customs. An introductory section contains extracts from the journal of Gobat's companion and fellow missionary, Christian Kugler, which are, however, omitted from the second edition" (Pankhurst). The second edition though has an added biographical introduction not found in the first edition. Pankhurst, 14.…

in Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society . to which is prefixed, a Brief History of the church of Abyssinia, by the Rev. Professor Lee. First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Later quarter morocco. xxi, 371pp. London, Hatchard & Son, A Swiss Protestant missionary, Gobat spent three years in Ethiopia between 1829-31. His account provides "a good description of life in Gondar and Adwa and interesting accounts of religious matters including church education and social customs. An introductory section contains extracts from the journal of Gobat's companion and fellow missionary, Christian Kugler, which are, however, omitted from the second edition" (Pankhurst). Pankhurst, 14.…