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The Gospel of St. Luke, in Tswana. Evangelia kotsa Mahuku a Molemo a Kuaruloeng ki Luka. Cape Town: Printed by R. Moffat at the Government Printing Office for the Bechuana Mission, Lattakoo [Kuruman], 1830. 12° (173 x 105mm). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, (inner hinge cracked). Provenance: The London Missionary Society, sold by them May, 1910. A FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST COMPLETE BOOK OF THE BIBLE IN TSWANA. With a pencilled note on its purchase from the London Missionary Society. Smith, The Spread of Printing in South Africa, p. 54-56. Peters and Tabane, Bibliography of the Tswana Language 61. Together with 5 others printed at Moffats Press. Likaelo tse ri tlauchoeng mo Bibelieng go buisioa mo likoleng yaka Mokhua oa Beritan, Mo Puong ea Sechuana. Kuruman: Printed by R. Moffat and R. Edwards, 1833. 12° (172 x 110mm). Modern quarter calf and marbled boards. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Theophilus Atkinson, 1838, as "from my esteemed Brother R. Moffat." Bible lessons for schools and very early printing at the Kuruman Press. Peters and Tabane 136. Likaelo tse ri tlaogoen mo Likualon tsa Morimo, go buisioa mo likolen kaha Thutanon ea Mokhua oa Beritan ka Puon ea Secuana. Mo kabon li for. London: Printed by W. McDowall for the use of the Bechuana, 1841. 12° (180 x 115mm). Original cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front endpaper "... to the Spring Hill College, Birmingham by the Translator Robert Moffat, Oct. 10th, 1842." With the College book label on paste-down. A re-issue of Scripture Lessons first printed at Kuruman, 1833. Peters and Tabane 623. Robert MOFFAT. Lihela tsa Tihelo ea Morimo; tse ri kuariloen mo puon ea secuana. London: Religious Tract Society, 1843. 12° (145 x 90mm). Contemporary calf. FIRST LONDON EDITION of the 1838 Tswana hymn-book. Inscribed on front endpaper to Rev. P. D. Luckhoff, Rhenish missionary at Elberfeld, 1891. Peters and Tabane 499. Kholagano enca ea Yesu Keresete, eo e len Morena oa rona le morebuluki:... [bound with:] Buka ea Lipesalem... London: British and Foreign Bible Society, [Kuruman: Printed at the Mission Press], 1840, 1841. 8° (182 x 115mm). Original blind-stamped black calf gilt.FIRST ISSUE IN FINE CONDITION. The Bible and Psalter, translated by Moffat. Peters and Tabane 39. Bibela ea Boitsepho e e cutsen Kholangano e Kholugolu: mo puon ea Secuana. Kabo ea Eintla. Kuruman: Printed at the Mission Press, 1853. 8° (214 x 145mm). Contemporary black calf gilt, (rubbed). Bookplate of Zonnebloem College on paste-down. A portion of the Bible as translated by Moffat, Genesis - 2 Kings. Peters and Tabane 40. (6)