Author: Various authors
Title: The Ladies' Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion. Volume XIX. January-December 1859
Description: Cincinnati, Swormstedt and Poe, 1859. Half-Leather. Half leather with marbled boards. 762 pp. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. A bound volume of this monthly journal devoted to literature, poetry and religious topics, produced by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Includes a portrait of African-American missionary bishop, Francis Burns, in Liberia, with a background of Monrovia in Liberia, adapting a view of the city originally by African-American photographer Augustus Washington. Topics in this volume include an account, presumably by a missionary of a travel through China, including to Tiong-Lok, among other places; African life; several pieces on photography; Edgar Allan Poe; woman's question in China; the world of the East, as well as many short pieces on items such as: photograph of Saturn; beer as food; explorations in Brazil; African missions; burial of the last Shawnee chief; missions in India; Texas wealth; Japan, etc. GOOD condition. Covers scuffed, with some soiling. Upper two inches of leather MISSING from the spine. Heavy scuffing and bumping along the extremities. Moderate to heavy scattered foxing throughout. Good .
Keywords: Noisbn Literature Exploration African American
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Title: The Ladies' Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion. Volume XIX. January-December 1859
Description: Cincinnati, Swormstedt and Poe, 1859. Half-Leather. Half leather with marbled boards. 762 pp. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. A bound volume of this monthly journal devoted to literature, poetry and religious topics, produced by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Includes a portrait of African-American missionary bishop, Francis Burns, in Liberia, with a background of Monrovia in Liberia, adapting a view of the city originally by African-American photographer Augustus Washington. Topics in this volume include an account, presumably by a missionary of a travel through China, including to Tiong-Lok, among other places; African life; several pieces on photography; Edgar Allan Poe; woman's question in China; the world of the East, as well as many short pieces on items such as: photograph of Saturn; beer as food; explorations in Brazil; African missions; burial of the last Shawnee chief; missions in India; Texas wealth; Japan, etc. GOOD condition. Covers scuffed, with some soiling. Upper two inches of leather MISSING from the spine. Heavy scuffing and bumping along the extremities. Moderate to heavy scattered foxing throughout. Good .
Keywords: Noisbn Literature Exploration African American
Price: US$ 43.00 Seller: Mare Booksellers
- Book number: 015816
- Book number: 015816
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