GAUSSEN (Samuel Robert Louis). Exposé de l'état actuel des missions évangéliques chez les peuples infidèles, tel qu'on le connaissait au début de l'année 1820. Genève, les principaux libraires, 1821. In-8, beige paper boards, title on spine, muted cover and contemporary blue paper (Modern binding). Numerous regions are covered: Sierra Leone, Madagascar and Mauritius, the Black Sea, the Edinburgh Society for the Jews, Tibet, China, Australasia and Polynesia, etc. The table of principal stations, with an indication of the societies occupying them, gives a map of the world where Protestant areas are marked in pink. Ferguson, I, 814.

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