Morrison. Grammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language as Spoken in the Upper Kasai and Congo Basin

Morrison, W. M. Grammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language as Spoken in the Upper Kasai and Congo Basin; Prepared for the American Presbyterian Congo Mission by W. M. Morrison, Missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the Congo Independent State. New York: American Tract Society, 1906. [7533] Burgundy cloth, spine sometime rebacked with handwritten title, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, x., 417 clean pp. Good. Hardcover. Robert Benedetto's article The Presbyterian Mission Press in Central Africa, 1890-1922 in American Presbyterians Vol 68, No. 1. (Spring, 1990) lists 29 publications of the Mission Press during those years, with Morrison being pre-eminent as a translator.  This item is no. 12, "the first work of [its] kind ever undertaken in this dialect.""The Presbyterian Mission and its Press have made a profound impact on the language of Central Africa.  The mission not only issued the first written works in the Tshiluba language [Buluba-Lulua], it issued these publications i