Heads of Mpongwe Grammar; Containing Most of the Principles Needed By a Learner de A Late Missionary - 1879

Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1772. First edition, 8vo, 2 parts in 1; pp. xxviii, 160, 24; original full speckled calf; joints cracked, front board neatly reattached, head of spine chipped with minor loss; textblock toned; some foxing. Bookplates of the Peabody Institute and the Library Company of Baltimore, both with release stamps. The preface is signed William Smith. With the sectional title page Sermons on Various Subjects. "On the Death of Rev. Nathaniel Evans," is signed "Laura" [i.e. Elizabeth Ferguson]. Among the subscribers are Tench Cox, the printers Hugh Gaine and Isaiah Thomas, both of whom took 25 copies, and Oliver Goldsmith of London. Evans 12386; Hildeburn 2770; Sabin 23179; Wegelin 33.