KOELLE, SIGISMUND WILHELM: - African Native Literature, or Proverbs, Tales, Fables, & Historical Fragments in the Kanuri or Bornu Language, ... and a Kanuri-English Vocabulary. London, Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, 1854.

. Pp. xiv, errata (ii), 434. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth, title lettered on spine, small marks on spine, small splits to hinges. First edition. Kölle (1820-1902) was a German missionary and pioneer scholar of African languages. His major work "Polyglotta Africana" (1854) initiated serious study of a large range of African languages by European scholars. Zaunmüller p. 219.

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