Early African Printing - Cameroon - 1859 - Mienge ma Yehova - "Hymns in the Dualla Language" maps an enlightenment printer-bookseller of Geneva

an enlightenment printer-bookseller of Geneva

This is an unusual and rare 1775 satire which imagines a letter from the celebrated Tahitian Omai (Omiah) to the Queen of Tahiti

Followed by Jerome's Prologue to the Gospel of Luke

with ownership inscription of Lt Colonel Henry Conran

This is a rare Hermannsburg Mission imprint produced for educational use by the Zulu people of southern Africa

Early African Printing - Cameroon - 1859 - Mienge ma Yehova - "Hymns in the Dualla Language" maps an enlightenment printer-bookseller of GenevaMienge ma Yehova "Hymns in the Dualla Language" Printed in Cameroons, Western Africa at the Baptist Mission Press 1859 An early Dualla language hymn book printed at the Baptist Mission Press in Cameroon. 8vo, 48 pages containing 90 hymns. Bound in later black cloth. A few marks and spots to pages, but overall a good copy. This early Cameroon imprint was translated into the Dualla language by Alfred Saker of the Baptist Missionary Society. Saker