A Zulu-Kafir Dictionary

£600 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Rare. “By far the most comprehensive work of this description issued up to this period. The author was engaged in the compilation whilst pursuing his missionary labours in Kaffraria and Natal, over a period of a bout twenty years” (Mendelssohn). Jacob Ludwig Döhne (1811-1879) was originally from the Berlin Missionary Society, and as well as this important Zulu-English dictionary, he also published Xhosa and Zulu translations of the New Testament. OCLC finds copies at SOAS only in the UK, seemingly none in US. Mendelssohn 1, p. 476.

• Year: 1857

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