Item #88475 Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866-1892. Samuel Norvell Lapsley.
Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866-1892
Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866-1892

Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866-1892

Richmond: Printed by Whittet & Shepperson, 1893. 1st ed. Hardcover. photos, map, musical scores, 242. Original gray cloth. Outline map on center of front cover. 23cm. A printed leaf dedicating this book to Lapsley's mother has been heavily glued in (along one side) of the blank recto of the frontis -- heavy brown glue stain showing. Pioneering missionary account. Lapsley, a native of Selma, Alabama, died of hemorrhagic fever less than two years after arriving in the Congo region. This book was edited and compiled by Samuel's brother (R. A. Lapsley). Very Good. Item #88475

Price: $125.00