Liber amicorum - Switzerland - Africa Family register of Ludwig Färber from Essingen with 68 entries from the environment of the Basel Missionary Society. With 3 partly col. Drawings. Mostly Basel, 1874. landscape 4°. Cloth binding with veneer set into the front cover with mounted title and title page. DTitel u. mont. Corner ornaments (cloth faded except for back cover, joints partly cracked, cover loose). Ludwig Färber (1847 Essingen - 1875 Keta) was a carpenter by trade and worked at the Basel Mission House from 1868-1873. In 1774 he travelled with the Rhenish Mission to the West African Gold Coast (today Ghana), where, according to a newspaper article (about a missionary festival in Kaiserslautern) in the Pfälzische Post of 1875, he died just a few months after his arrival due to his probably dangerous post. - Contains entries from various missionaries from Basel, Essingen, Bremen, Ebmatingen, Neustadt, Frankfurt a.M. as well as 2 from Keta with testimonies of friendship or good wishes for the journey or the distance, including from: Leonhard Eppeler (1849-1925, gardener, mission: Georgia and others), Gottlieb Grossmann (1848-1905, tailor, mission: India), Paulus Kammerer (1851-1931, mechanic, mission: China), Johannes Knausenberger (1953-1919, lithographer, mission: India), Immanuel Christian Kolb (1810-1894, Swab. Schulmeister), Johann Gottfried Kühnle (1850-1918, wainwright, Mission: India), Markus Müller (1847-1905, watchmaker, Mission: Georgia), Martin Schaub (1850-1900, merchant, pastor, Mission: China), Rudolf Schenkel (1850-1919, expedition assistant, Mission: India), Jakob Schlegel (1850-1909, weaver, Mission: North), Paul Ernst Wurm (1829-1911, ev. Pastor), Franz Michael Zahn (1833-1900, Protestant theologian), Jacob Bihler (1852-1880), Christian Gottlieb Eble (1852-1912), Conrad Wilhelm Fontaine (1952-1915), Rudolf Furrer (1850-1905), Michael Hätinger (1950-1940), Adolf Ruhland (1851-1912), Martin Sauter (1952-1878). - Portraits of Färber and many of the registrants can be found in the Basel Mission Archives: https://www.bmarchives.org/ (copy enclosed). - With 3 biblical quotations in Hebrew and Greek. - Slightly browned due to paper, some minor fingerstaining, a few biographical notes in pencil. Notes in pencil, otherwise well preserved. Switzerland - Africa - Liber amicorum of Ludwig Färber from Essingen with 68 entries from the Basel Missionary Society. With 3 partly col. drawings. Contemp. cloth binding with veneer set into the front cover with mounted title and mounted corner ornaments (cloth faded except for back cover, joints partly cracked, boards loosened). - Ludwig Färber (1847 Essingen - 1875 Keta) was a carpenter by trade and worked at the mission house in Basel from 1868 to 1873. He travelled with the Rhenish Mission to the West African Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1774, where, according to a newspaper article (about a mission festival in Kaiserslautern) in the Pfälzische Post of 1875, he died just a few months after his arrival due to his probably dangerous post. - Contains entries from various missionaries from Basel, Essingen, Bremen, Ebmatingen, Neustadt, Frankfurt a.M. and 2 from Keta, among others, as listed above. - Portraits of Färber and of many of the persons contained in the album can be found in the Basel Mission Archives: https://www.bmarchives.org/ (copy enclosed). - Slightly browned due to paper, some minor fingerstaining, some biographical notes in pencil, otherwise well preserved. This lot is taxed. A surcharge of 24.95% will be added to the hammer price and 7% (books, art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, silkscreens, offset prints, photographs) to the final invoice amount in the European Union. This work is subject to the regular margin scheme. There is a 24.95% buyer's premium on the hammer price and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offsetprints and Photographs) on the final invoice amount in the European Union.