[Boegner (M. A.) Editor:]

LIVRE D'OR DE LA MISSION DU LESSOUTO

Soixante-quinze ans de l'histoire d'une tribu sud-africaine 1833-1908. Contributeurs: Frank Puaux, Hermann Dieterlen, Édouard Jacottet, and Jean Bianquis. Avec 262 gravures dans le texte, une planche et une carte hors texte

Published: Maison des Missions Évangéliques, Paris, 1912

Stock Number: 13309

Price: R960

First Edition: xxviii, 693 pages, numerous photographic text-illustrations and full-page plates, large folding lithographed map of Basutoland at the end, original light blue cloth fraying at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners, contents bright, 4to (282 x 215 mm), a very good copy.

A history and ethnographical survey documenting seventy-five years of the Sotho nation and the expansion of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris. Published as a commemorative jubilee souvenir, the work provides primary accounts of regional tribal leadership, language, and the conflicts between the Basotho people, the Boers, and the British.