Medbery, R[ebecca] B.

Memoir of William G. Crocker, Late Missionary in West Africa Among the Bassas, Including a History of the Bassa Mission

Boston: Gould Kendall & Lincoln, 1848.

Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5" - 6" tall. viii, 300 pp + 24 pp ads; frontis portrait of Crocker. Original blind-stamped cloth somewhat faded, partially split along rear hinge. Ink spatter to fore edge, rear board, and margin of a few pages. Text otherwise clean, binding sound. Crocker was sent to Liberia by the American Baptist Board in 1835. Among other accomplishments, he produced a spelling primer and a translation of the Gospels into the Bassa language. Much of this account is drawn directly from his diaries.

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