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1952186766New York: Joseph F. Wagner Inc 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. 439p. A red cloth hardcover book in near-fine condition. Tiny closed tear at head of spine; otherwise clean and tight. Joseph F. Wagner, Inc hardcover
19631939160521030Kiamichi Mountains Mission 1963-01-01. Paperback. Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear.has light stains on rear cover. Kiamichi Mountains Mission paperback
190528267Philadelphia: C.H. Graves 1905. Very good condition. A stereoview of 3 graduates from North Western College in Orange City Iowa. 2 men sitting 1 standing outside in front of a stairway and building. Written on the verso is North Western College Orange City Iowa in pencil.<br /> <br /> North Western College exists today as a Christian college. 7 x 3 1/2 C.H. Graves unknown
19168803Essex Junction VT: Roscoe Printing House 1916. First edition. 8vo 180pp. Portrait frontis illustrations. Brown cloth spine lettered in black. Few light scuffs to boards clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Uncommon text by the missionary author known for his work in France and the U.S. Louis F. Passebois. Passebois also wrote various articles for publications such as The Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald and was active in Adventist circles in Quebec and Battle Creek Michigan. He mainly focused his missionary efforts on the conversion of French Roman Catholics. <br /> <br /> <br /> OCLC cites 11 holdings. . Roscoe Printing House unknown
1925512688Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod 1925. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. 218pp. B/w map and frontispiece portrait collage extensively illustrated throughout with in-text b/w photos. 8vo sewn binding in green cloth with gilt stamped lettering and black stamped Pagoda to front cover. Tips just a bit worn very clean and sharp otherwise. Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod hardcover
192828236Women's Foreign Missionary Society Methodist Episcopal Church 1928. A folding card with a color front image of a school and palm trees. Opens to tipped in b&w image of classroom with children at their desks. "In the land of fair Malaya jutting outward to the sea There are boys and girls awaiting for the gifts from you and me. For the rites of heathen worship and ignorance abound And they list with eager longing for the Herald's joyful sound."<br /> <br /> This is a Junior Thank-Offering for the completion of a school building in Malacca and new school in Singapore. They ask for 6 dimes to be inserted in slots on the desks image then returned. 9 x 5" opens to 18 x 5 Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church unknown
1984Q-0910984506Montfort Pubns 1984-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Montfort Pubns paperback
19500032989London: Unevangelized Fields Mission 1950. First Edition. Softcover Paperback. Fair Condition. 21.5cm x 14cm. 54 pages black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers. Stories and documentation of the Unevangelized Fields Mission work in Congo in the between 1931 and 1949. At the time UMF had offices in London Toronto Philadelphia and Melbourne. In 2004 UMF changed its name to Crossworld and continues its missionary work around the world. Scarce 4 copies recorded in OCLC. Wrappers splitting at spine extremely tender. Category: Religion & Theology; Countries::Africa::Congo; Inventory No: 0032989. BZDB407 Religion & Theology; Countries::Africa::Congo; Unbranded Congo Missionaries of the Unevangelized Fields Mission Where the Master Touched Unevangelized Fields Mission paperback
19115251London: March 29 1911. Very good. 1p. Previously folded. Contemporary manuscript annotation is left margin. Light toning. A brief but interesting letter dated March 29 1911 from Marshall Broomhall Editorial Secretary of England's China Inland Mission to the Rev. Arthur H. Smail a prominent American Missionary in China. Broomhall had recently published a book Islam in China in which he promoted the use of Arabic-speaking missionaries to proselytize Chinese Muslims. The book used information received from Smail about the Chinese Muslim population but Broomhall at certain points managed to confuse Beijing Peking and nearby Tongzhou Tungchow while apparently attempting to criticize Smail's statements. This letter apologizes to Smail for his error though the American seems to have still been cross -- having received the letter Smail noted in the left margin "Two pages gives to demolishing what I never said! March 29 unknown
19802111902160604444Chuo shubbansha 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chuo shubbansha paperback
1963Alibris.0016897Junta de Investigaçôes do Ultramar. 1963. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. small tear in back of dust jacket dust jacket in protective sleeve. 291 p. Junta de Investigaçôes do Ultramar hardcover
1978317595Baile Atha Cliath: Bord Eagarthoireachta 1978. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copies; covers slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved set overall. Physical description: 18 issues; illustrated; 21cm. Contents: Earrach 1978 -- Earrach 1978 -- Samhradh 1978 -- Fomhar 1979 -- Fomhar 1978 -- Samhradh 1980 -- Fomhar 2011 -- Earrach 1995 -- Geimhreadh 1994-95 -- Samhradh 1994 -- Geimhreadh 1996-97 -- Fomhar 1995 -- Earrach 1996 -- Samhradh 1992 -- Geimhreadh 1996-97 -- Geimhreadh 2006 -- Geimhreadh 1991-2 -- Samhradh 2014. Subjects: Christian life -- Ireland. Periodicals; Christian life. Ireland. Irish; Periodicals. Genre: Illustrated. Baile Atha Cliath: Bord Eagarthoireachta paperback
1910mon0000028842The Foreign Christian Missionary 1910. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. The Foreign Christian Missionary paperback
195821379Huila Angola: Tip. Missao da Huila 1958. From the collection of Dr. Gordon Gibson former curator of African Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution with his signature. Cloth backed light blue boards lettered in black. . Hard Cover. Very Good. Tip. Missao da Huila Hardcover
191195663n.p.: West African African Mission A. B. F. F. M. 1911. Good. 400 248p. Lacks cover we don't know whether this uncommon linguistic item was originally hard or soft cover. Outer leaves soiled. This 1911 edition appears to be much explanded from the first edition of 1885. The first part Umbundu-English is longer and more detailed than the second part English-Umbundu. This feature is explained or excused in the Preface: "Having as a basis the Engliush-Umbundu vocabulary which fairly enough gathers up the Umbundu-English each one can prepare for his own use a serviceable English-Umbundu vocabulary. The work of printing has been so exacting on all concerned that adding to correcting or classifying the Umbundu words in the second part could not be attempted." The Preface also warns that "The necessity of substituting ordinary c for c with cedilla in Portuguese words containing that letter is one among several infelicities occasioned by an inadequate supply of type which are much regretted." Umbundu is spoken by about a third of the inhabitants of Angola making it that country's most widely spoken indigenous language. West African African Mission, A. B. F. F. M. unknown
1926SB10483Pekin Peking/Beijing China: Imprimerie Des Lazaristes 1926. A beautiful set of two volumes published in French; Originally published in Paris in 1850 this set of the New Edition was produced in 1926 annotated and illustrated by J.M. Planchet; Vol. II has chip at the top corner and small stain on 2nd rear free endpaper otherwise the textblocks are clean and tight; Rebound in black textured cloth. Vol. I - 479p.; Vol. II is 493p. Illlustrated with maps drawings and photographs. Rear free endpaper of Volume II bookseller's ticket shows this set was sold by The Oriental Book Store in Tientsin China. "Évariste Régis Huc C.M. also known as the Abbé Huc 1813-1860 was a French Catholic priest Lazarite missionary and traveller. He became famous for his accounts of Qing-era China Mongolia then known as "Tartary" and especially.Tibet from this work: Remembrances of a Journey in Tartary Tibet and China. He and his companion Joseph Gabet were the first Europeans who had reached Lhasa since Thomas Manning in 1812. from Wikipedia. Nouvelle Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Illus. by Plates/Decorations/Engravings/Folded Map. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Imprimerie Des Lazaristes Hardcover
1935512689The Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod 1935. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 230pp. B/w map and frontispiece portrait collage extensively illustrated throughout with in-text b/w photos. 8vo sewn binding in green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and blind-stamped Pagoda to front cover. Tips rubbed text very clean and sharp with sound binding. The Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod hardcover
1903164381903. Africa Women's Education Social Activist Life and Light for Women. Vol. XXXIII. Vol. 8. August 1903. Boston: Woman's Board of Missions 1903. First Edition Frontispiece photo of pupils at a missionary school in Zimbabwe. Original paper wraps. Staplebound. Starting in the mid-19th century there was a growing movement of international missionary trips for women who felt they had a special duty to Christianize other women who for cultural and societal reasons would not be able to hear the gospel from male missionaries. Most often female missionaries worked in educational capacities establishing schools abroad or worked in medical clinics as nurses and doctors. This report details various projects being done by women missionaries worldwide including medical work being done by Dr. Ruth Hume in India and updates on schools in Africa and Asia. Very good condition. unknown
1913List3016St. Michaels Arizona: Anselm Weber and Berard Haile 1913. Sixty-eight page booklet measuring 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Wear mainly to covers; excellent. Catholic missionaries—Franciscans in particular—have been present in what is now the American Southwest since the 16th century. For most of this time these were Spanish missionaries missioning to the Pueblo people mainly in New Mexico; these missionaries’ presence waned over time. In 1898 several decades after the Navajo were allowed to return to a reservation on part of their former territory the first permanent Catholic mission to the Navajo was organized. St. Michael’s was founded by Fathers Anselm Weber and Berard Haile German Franciscans from Cincinnati. <br /> <br /> Their approach was different from the Spanish friars’ and that of the United States government primarily in that Weber and Haile advocated learning the Navajo language understanding the culture and approaching their conversion from that angle especially focusing on children who were more impressionable.1 Haile in particular became an expert in the language and culture translating many Catholic texts and producing dictionaries and writing anthropological studies of Navajo culture and religion.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a German-language copy—both Haile and Anselm were German—of the first volume of St. Michael’s yearly publication The Fransiscan Missions of the Southwest Die Franziskaner Missionen des Suedwestens. The illustrated journal was published from 1913 to 1922 and discussed the Navajo and Pueblo people and cultures and the activities of the missionaries in the area. Among other topics this volume contains an article about the Navajo Fire Dance “Der Feuertanz der Navajo-Indianer" with photographs taken from Haile’s Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language 1910.<br /> <br /> We find sixteen holdings on OCLC of the full run of the journal and three of this specific volume. Of interest to historians of Catholic missionaries to the Pueblo and Navajo people.<br /> <br /> 1 Ross Enochs “The Franciscan Mission to the Navajos: Mission Method and Indigenous Religion 1898–1940†The Catholic Historical Review 92 no. 1 January 2006: 46–73. Anselm Weber and Berard Haile unknown
191658517Chicago: Women’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society ca. 1916. 12mo. 182 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates tables charts. Colour-illustrated softcovers Arts & Crafts cover art of an Italianate garden minor scuffing couple bent corners shelfwear still a VG copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce report and handbook for women missionaries distributed throughout Burma China Japan India Africa the Philippines & Assam. Employing an array of gardening metaphors the compiler details Women’s American Baptist Mission efforts in founding kindergartens Sunday Schools as well as many other health & welfare programs through their East Asia South Asia and India missions. Of particular interest are their ongoing efforts for training girls and women to succeed in their societies founding and sustaining of Woman’s Medical Colleges along with nursing schools in China Burma and Japan. In addition there are detailed tables outlining locations of WABFMS and affiliated missions’ schools boarding schools women native teachers boys & girls pupils village schools kindergartens and more. The detailed biographies and index offer excellent period references. Prescott b. 1874 was a Wellesley College graduate high school biologist and Baptist Sunday School Advocate who began with the WABFMS in 1914 as associate foreign secretary and in 1916 succeeded Mrs. Safford as foreign secretary. After publishing this report in memoriam to Martha Covert 1875-1916 she would carry out a four month tour 1919-1920 to Japan East China South China and the Philippines. Worldcat locates 1 physical copy Yale with the remaining as computer copies microfilm and online digital copies. Women’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, paperback
19264568Queen's Hill Kotagiri Nilgiris India: June 26 1926. Very good. 5pp. typed on plain folio sheets. Old folds minor wear. An informative and entertaining correspondence by Kate M. French written while serving as a missionary teacher at the Preston Institute in Jangaon India. Writing to "Friends at Home" French opens by reporting that the school year started well "except for two of the boys whose mother was ill with Plague" the mother subsequently died. French also mentions students getting stung by scorpions a cobra snake killed by the headmaster of the school making valentines for the entire school on Valentine's Day and much more. French also recounts the comings-and-goings of various officials to her mission writes in detail about her attendance at a "teachers' institute" composed of teachers from "the American Methodist the English Wesleyan the American Mennonites and our own" details the school's commencement at the end of the term and more. The local plague is mentioned several times in French's letter. She mentions her own inoculation against the plague. She also records that "before long we learned that there had been several deaths from plague in our town. We had nearly all our Christians innoculated some time before and Mrs. Rutherford at once had the stragglers attended to those who had fever when the doctor was innoculating and one or two who were not very strong and would only be done if the disease came near." Shortly thereafter French notes that "people are leaving town on account of the plague." An interesting letter from an American woman teaching at a mission in India in the midst of the Roaring Twenties. June 26 unknown
19255493Okayama 1925. Very good. 15pp. Old fold lines minor wear. With original envelope. Lengthy letter written by Mrs. C. Burnell Olds to a friend and donor back in Connecticut Mrs. Nathan S. Bronson. Okayama is located to the west of Osaka and Kyoto in the southern portion of the country; Mrs. Olds was born to a missionary family stationed in Japan and had worked in that country since 1903. In her letter Olds relates her current round of activities the ways in which Mrs. Bronson's funds have been of great use and the other activities she observes and participates in within the local community. She opens recounting a visit to the True Beauty Girls' School to which Mrs. Bronson has donated. She writes "The fact that an American woman was willing to give to a non-Christian school way over here in Japan has made a great impression here in Okayama." She goes on to discuss the building of a new church by some "earnest young men" briefly noting that they still need money to furnish the church. "We are very anxious to start some kind of social work here -- if possible to open an amusement hall where young men can come to have a good time in a good way -- with good women. There is no such place in our city and how many evil resorts there are." She relates further activities an endless stream of clubs and activities and teaching efforts for the Lord closing with family news. An interesting missive chock full of information on a local missionary's efforts in 1920s Japan. unknown
19286054Shanghai China: February 24 1928. Very good. 1p. plus colored woodblock print 21.5 x 12.5 inches. With original envelope. Old folds minor wear. Mimeographed fundraising letter sent by Reverend H.G.C. Hallock to a supporter in Vermont. Henry Galloway Comingo Hallock 1870-1951 was a West Virginia native who studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. He moved to China as a Presbyterian missionary and teacher in 1905 where he taught Sunday School served as a pastor and also taught theology at St. John's University in Shanghai. He survived war disease famine and a Japanese prison during World War II; he died in China in 1951. One thing that set Hallock apart was his inclusion of local Chinese woodblock prints with his fundraising letters which today have become desirable collectibles. Such a print is present here showing the God of War Wu-ti. His letter opens discussing the print:<br /> <br /> "Wars in China suggest sending you 'Wu-ti' the Chinese god-of-war. . The general idea about Wu-ti is that he delights in war. That is not the Chinese idea of him. . Officials and scholars worship him as the ideal of loyalty soldiers do it to make them brave and protect them in battle and the people worship him to protect them from war's horrors. He's called 'Peace Bringer Protector Great God of Loyalty.' But he makes not peace nor protects nor makes loyal so is a failure. He's also called 'Warrior Prince.' As to that name he's a great success! There are lots of wars."<br /> <br /> He goes on to discuss the many conflicts which are like "a real Chinese puzzle" noting that it's not the people of China who are at issue or fault. "Recently I have received letters from America suggesting that since 'China has altogether gone to the bad and the Chinese are absolutely impossible' and since our 'work among them has gone for nothing' then I should 'quit and come home.' I hope you don't think thus. The masses of Chinese tho reminding me of 'dumb driven cattle' are still friendly as ever. The war-lords the Nationalists the Reds the bandits wars and evil propaganda are disturbing elements; but they are NOT China nor the Chinese. . The troubles in China have come from a fiercely aggressive and 'noisy minority' who make the great mass of Chinese suffer untold hardships." He goes on to defend the Christian work being done in China as of great benefit to the people. February 24 unknown
19585047Sao Paulo: Tenrikyo Brazil Mission 1958. Very good. 52162511pp. including 32pp. of photographically-illustrated plates. Original orange cloth gilt spine titles housed in original cardboard slipcase with black spine lettering. Very minor wear internally clean. Some chipping and toning to slipcase. An unrecorded history of the Japanese immigrant Tenrikyo Mission in Brazil providing valuable information on many Tenrikyo churches across the country. Tenrikyo was a new Japanese religion founded in the 19th century in Japan by Nakayama Miki and spread to Hawaii Brazil and other regions where Japanese immigrants moved over the course of the first few decades of the 20th century. The photographic plates contain portraits of some mission members views of churches scenes from church life and more. The text is almost wholly in Japanese save for occasional listings of Spanish names and other information. Not reported in OCLC. Tenrikyo Brazil Mission unknown
19575046Honolulu: Tenrikyo Hawaii Mission 1957. Very good. 1632365pp. including 32pp. of photographically-illustrated plates errata slip laid in. Original orange cloth gilt spine titles housed on the original cardboard slipcase with black spine lettering. Very minor wear to boards internally clean. Small puncture and some wear to spine of slipcase. A rare history of the Tenrikyo Mission in Hawaii beginning with the founding of its first church in Honolulu in 1929. Tenrikyo was a new Japanese religion founded in the 19th century in Japan by Nakayama Miki. The present work also includes information on many other churches on the islands including the Hilo Church Kauai Church the Maui Church and more. The photographic plates contain portraits of some mission members views of churches scenes from church life and more. The text is mostly in Japanese save for a fifteen-page section printing a series of English-language lectures on the Tenrikyo religion by members of the Hawaiian mission. OCLC records just a single physical copy of this rare Japanese-American work at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Tenrikyo Hawaii Mission unknown