Lot 685
  • 685

Jeffreys, Keturah

Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Jeffreys, Keturah
  • The Widowed Missionary's Journal; containing some Account of Madagascar; and also, a Narrative of the Missionary Career of the Rev. J. Jeffreys; who died on a passage from Madagascar to the Isle of France. Southampton: Printed for the Author, 1827
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FIRST EDITION, 12mo (190 x 110mm.), x, [ii blank], 204pp., [xxiv pp. subscribers], silhouette portrait, original brown paper boards, cream paper spine, printed label, uncut, unopened, red morocco-backed cloth box, spine slightly worn

There appear to be two issues of this work, with different paginations, this one and another which collates x, 216, [7]pp. (and contains a facsimile plate).

Provenance

John Cator, armorial bookplate

Literature

Mendelsshon (1979) II, p.676 (listing both issues)

Condition

A good copy
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