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Africa. Philology: Macbrair (Rev. Robert Maxwell), A Grammar of the Mandingo [i.e. Mandinka] Language: with Vocabularies, first edition, London: Printed for the Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Society, n.d. [1842], vii, [1], 74pp, verso of title with former library numbering, an occasional inner-gutter tear in places, but slight and without leaf movement, institutional green buckram, lettered in gilt, 8vo in 4s; Steere (Edward, Chaplain to Bishop Tozer), Collections for a Handbook of the Yao Language, first edition, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1871, original publisher's blue cloth over limp boards, lettered in gilt, from the Society's own library, their bookplate on pastedown and stamp to ffep, 12mo in 6s; Meinertzhagen's Kenya Diary, 1902-1906, first edition, 1957, cloth only; China: Ritson (John H.), Abroad for the Bible Society, first edition, London: Robert Culley, n.d. [c. 1908-09], monochrome plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (4)
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