Lot n° 459
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Johan Lucas Niecamp, History of the Danish mission in the Ea - Lot 459
Johan Lucas Niecamp, History of the Danish mission in the East Indies, which contains in short the relationships that the evangelical missionaries gave from 1705 to the end of 1736. Translated from the German by M. Jean Lucas Niecamp. Geneva, Henri-Albert Gosse, 1745. 3 vol. in-8 of (2)-XXXVI-244 pp. ; (2)-282 pp. ; (2)-202-(1) pp., stiff vellum with small flaps, smooth spine, title piece (contemporary binding). First uncommon French edition. Relation of the first Danish Protestant mission to Tranquebar in South India authorized by King Frederick IV, who left in 1705, completed thirty years later while the first Acts were recorded in 1718; Johan Lucas Niecamp wrote the first abridged edition in 1740 which Benjamin Gaudard translated five years later. Titles in red and black. Preface by Gotthilf August Francke, son of the pietist August Hermann Francke who was at the origin of this mission. Handwritten ex-libris on the back of the last page of volume III: This book belongs to the Citizen Magainege Health Officer at the 2nd Battalion of the 64th Infantry Brigade of Battle those who found him to give him he will pay them a bottle of wine to St Martin and a Pain dorge to St George in Mantua on 13 February 6th year Republic Signed or Sign Margana. Pale wetness in the upper margin of volume III. Chadenat, 6381: "Very rare".
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