[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Papouasie : histoire de la Mission (1885-1935)

A$40 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Issoudun : Arch. de N. D. du Sacre-Coeur ; Paris : Dillen, [1935]. First edition. Octavo (245 mm), binder s cloth (lightly marked) with gilt-lettered spine; pp. [3], 544; large folding colour map, 3 sketch maps, 64 b/w photographic plates; text in French; bound without the half-title; a lovely, clean copy; pastedown with ex libris of Harry Jackman, and with the later bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to the front endpaper. The story of the French Roman Catholic mission to New Guinea.

• Binding: Hardcover

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