The Rhenish Mission Society in South Africa, 1830-1950 by Strassberger, Elfriede

(Cape Town: Struik, 1969). 4to; original blue rexine, lettered in gilt on spine, and with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xv + (iii) + 109, incl. index; plates; tables. Dustwrapper somewhat foxed, and sunned on spine panel; some foxing to edges, endpapers and outermost leaves. Very good condition. "In the first part of this book the author gives the development of the mission's work in South Africa to the beginning of the work of the Rhenish Mission Society and tells why South Africa was chosen as the first mission field of the R.M.S. In the second part she gives an historical picture of the mission stations at: Amandelboom, Concordia, Komaggas, Out Posts, Richtersveld, Stellenbosch, Steinkopf, Tulbagh, and Worcester, and of the Institutions Evenhaezer and Wupperthal." .