COURTOIS, Victor Jose. Diccionario Portuguez-Cafre-Tetense.

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COURTOIS, Victor Jose. Diccionario Portuguez-Cafre-Tetense. Ou Idioma Fallado no Districto de Tete e na vasta Regiao do Zambeze Inferior. Mafara Akukonkédua a chizungu na mu chisendzi cha ku Nyungue. Traduzido pelo Padre Victor José Courtois, S.J., Missionario do Real Padroado. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1899 Contemporary quarter calf, Med.8vo. 1,xiii,484pp.

 

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COURTOIS, Victor Jose. Diccionario Portuguez-Cafre-Tetense. Ou Idioma Fallado no Districto de Tete e na vasta Regiao do Zambeze Inferior. Mafara Akukonkédua a chizungu na mu chisendzi cha ku Nyungue. Traduzido pelo Padre Victor José Courtois, S.J., Missionario do Real Padroado. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1899 Contemporary quarter calf, Med.8vo. 1,xiii,484pp.

Victor Joseph Courtois (1846-1894) was a French Jesuit who came to Mozambique in 1883. He founded missions, became vicar of Tete and studied the indigenous languages. With an extra title page mounted before the text dated 1900, a very nice copy in a contemporary quarter calf. COPAC lists three copies.