Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Illustrations of missionary scenes : an offering to youth.

Alternate Title(s):

Twenty illustrations of missionary scenes

Published / Created:

Mayence [i.e. Mainz] : Joseph Scholz, publisher, [approximately 1855]

Physical Description:

2 volumes : 40 illustrations ; 22 x 35 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2022 15
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Cover imprint: Mainz: Published and sold by Joseph Scholz and may be had at the Bâsle Evang. Missionary Society's House.

Date of publication from Abbey.

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 10

BAC Folio A 2022 15 : The Abbey copy. Plates are hand-colored. Bound in publisher's printed boards with tan cloth spine. Slip case with bookplate: Rex de C. Nan Kivell.

Contents:

[I.] West Africa; India; New Zealand; North-west America; China -- II. Sierra Leone; India; New Zealand; North-west America.

Subject Terms:

Missions -- History. | Missionaries. | Missionaries. | Missions. | Nan Kivell, Rex -- Bookplate.

Form/Genre:

History. | Juvenile literature. | Lithographs.

Contributors:

Scholz, Joseph, publisher. | Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel, bookseller.