Huc, M, (Ancien Missionnaire Apostolique En Chine); Planchet, J M (Missionnaire Lazariste)Biblio.com
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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
188049586St. Ignatius Montana: St. Ignatius Print 1880. 8vo pp. 4 45 1; original paper wrapper perished reinforced in stiff brown library card; pages toned and worn at edges good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate with release stamp on title page. "These works were put in type and printed by the Indian school boys at St. Ignatius. About 225 copies of each were printed." Pilling identifies the author as Giorda per his correspondence with a superintendent of the school Father Leopold Van Gorp. Pilling Salishan p. 28; Pilling Proof-sheets 1558; Schoenberg 7. St. Ignatius Print unknown
18782101120052Dijon : Pellion et Marchet freres 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine Binding 16 mo. Bound in gorgeous contemporary polished navy morocco. Gilt cross with banner Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus in inlaid leather on front. All edges gilt. Gilt dentelle. XVI-752 p. Dijon : Pellion et Marchet freres hardcover
184790883New York: Snowden & Prall Printers 1847. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 93p. Original marbled boards. 23cm. Lacks backstrip. Covers detached. Substantial foxing in large portions of book. DEFECTIVE -- one signature pages 57-64 present in duplicate while the next signature pages 65-72 is missing. Ex lib. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Library. Snowden & Prall, Printers hardcover
4337CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN INDIA. An archive of three letters from Christian missionies in India to E.E. Pelz of Seattle Washington:TLS. 1pg. 8 x 11. March 5 1902. Allahabad India. A typed letter signed Rockwell Clancy to E.E. Pelz: I have been transferred from the Allahabad District to the Muttra District. There are more than 12000 Christians in my new district and it will be impossible for me to attend to that work to retain the secretary ship of the Bishop Thoburn Special Fund for India. Mr. Rockey is a missionary of many years experience and is not new to the work of the special fund as he was secretary before I took over the work from him at the beginning of 1895 when he went to America on furlough. His name will be familiar to the patrons of 1894 in previous years. I feel sure that anyone who has ever had a letter from him about the work in India will be very glad to know that he is taken up this duty again. Among all are missionaries there are very few men who can write more interestingly of India than Mr. Rockey. Let me ask you to continue to do all you can to interest others in India. The opportunities for work among the heathen are boundless. Many doors are open to us; thousands would become Christians if we could give them pastors and teachers. I came to India 18 years ago. At that time there were not more than 10000 Christians in our mission; today there are 128000. Let us continue to pray and work till India becomes a Christian land. The letter has chipping along the right edge and is in good condition.TLS. 1pg. 8 x 11. April 24 1902. A typed letter signed N.L. Rockey on The Bishop Thoburn Special Fund For India letterhead. He wrote to E.E. Pelz: The latest draft from mission rooms brought to meet your your donation of $15 given in February for the continued support of a pastor teacher in India. I find from the books that Bro. Clancy turned over to me that you have given on several occasions but he has made no assignment. I know that it is pleasant for people who give for this fun to have some special man in view and therefore ascending the sum to the presiding elder of Kasgunj district I asked him to send me the names of men who would be supported by the special fund. One of them I am assigning to you. When you pray and when you give keep Chadmai Lall's maybe for you. He is a pastor teacher in Kasgunj district. He is 28 years of age. A number of villages must be visited by him. In some of these villages a few Christians live apart from other people despised by their neighbors. This year he has 10 men whom he is seeking to win for Christ. He also teaches a small school which 15 boys are reading.N.L. Rockey. The letter has a rough right edge.ALS. 5pg. 5 x 8. April 24 1902. Sitaper India. A lengthy autograph letter signed N.L. Rockey to E.E. Pelz: Several years ago we had the pleasure of receiving from you a donation of $15 for our special fund but now for some time we've not heard from you. It is possible to the fault is ours and that you do not get a proper acknowledgment of your donation. Our Bro Clancy tried to keep all straight but he has had several men working upon them and the great strain of the famine came let some of the records get into confusion and the writing had to be left to such helpers as he could secure. You will see by the enclosed that I am now called to this duty and I desire to have brethren in America correspond with me concerning any difficulty in past donations. As far as I can I will trace the matter a reply to your questions. We have been roughly honest with the money you entrusted to us. Over one half of the work in the N.W. India conference has been carried on only through the aid of the special fund that started as promised$100 would support a full preacherWe would be so glad to enlist your prayers and help to enable us to continue our work. Our missionary society has scattered its obligations on all continents and is not been able to contain its support to India. You can designate your gift for the support of Scholarships for our native schools or for the support of an orphan or for the endowment of our English schools where our missionaries children are educated. We need a fund that will supply good teachers in these.N.L. Rockey. The lengthy letter is in fine condition. unknown
1505ALS. 1pg. 6" x 7 ". July 20 1818. Kensington probably Connecticut. An autograph letter signed "John Blake" as president of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge to Reverend Eliphalet Pearson 1752-1826 a Harvard professor who began the theological seminary at Andover Academy: "The committee in Kensington for travailing Ministerial affairs again hereby testify their grateful acknowledgements to you and to the Society over which you preside for favours recently received and still solicit your further aid in supporting Mr. Minister Samuel Whiting as a preacher of the Gospel among us the one hundred dollars already voted to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge was with the sole view that Mr. Whiting might be continued among us whose labors are very acceptable and be assured that we on our part will endeavor to do as much as we can for his support." The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge was a Scottish organization whose mission was to Christianize Native Americans. The letter is clearly legible with a few spots of toning 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
1892List3029Indian Territory: N.p. 1892. Folio of eleven unbound sheets forty-four pages measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches. Marginal damage and fading to text; excellent. Amory Nelson Chamberlin 1821–1894 was born on Brainerd Mission in what is now Chattanooga Tennessee the son and grandson of missionaries. Fluent in both English and Cherokee Chamberlin worked as an interpreter and served under General Stand Watie in the Confederate States Army.1 After the war Chamberlin established the Pheasant Hill Mission near Vinita Indian Territory with Reverend Hamilton Balentine preaching in Cherokee and English.2<br /> <br /> Offered here is a Cherokee-language version of the Shorter Catechism translated by Chamberlin. The Cherokee written language is a syllabary—a writing system in which symbols represent whole syllables—developed in the early 19th century by Sequoyah a Cherokee leader and inventor. It was one of the first writing systems for an Indigenous American language and significantly increased Cherokee literacy within a short time of its adoption in the 1820s.3<br /> <br /> We find fifteen copies of Chamberlin’s catechism in OCLC. Of interest to historians of the Cherokee nation its language and its Christian missionaries.<br /> <br /> 1 Lon H. Eakes “Rev. Amory Nelson Chamberlin 1821–1894†Chronicles of Oklahoma 12 no. 1 1934: 97–102.<br /> 2 O.B. Campbell Vinita I.T.: The Story of a Frontier Town of the Cherokee Nation 1871–1907 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. 1909.<br /> 3 Willard Walker and James Sarbaugh “The Early History of the Cherokee Syllabary†Ethnohistory 40 no. 1 Winter 1993: 70–94. N.p. 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
18715815Nellore: March 17 1871. Very good. Broadside 8.25 x 5 inches. Old horizontal folds minor toning. An unrecorded broadside calling a meeting of the General Committee of the Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society JABS at the Wesleyan Mission House in Jaffna in March 1871. The Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society is an arm of the British & Foreign Bible Society focused on distributing Bibles and engaging in scriptural education within the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka. In the present broadside the secretary of the JABS Thomas Good writes from Nellore and lays out the business of the meeting in six line items. The meeting is meant to include Devotional Exercises a reading of the minutes from the last meeting "Brief Verbal Reports of Bible Work" sub-committee reports a reading of a paper by Rev. L. Spaulding on the "best method of doing Bible Work" and a discussion of said paper. Original materials held by institutions relating to the Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society are almost exclusively either their printings of various Books of the Bible into Tamil or later annual reports. Ephemera from the society's work in Sri Lanka is almost nonexistent. March 17 unknown
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
1900178748Tokyo: Japan Unitarian Mission 1900. First edition first printing. This window onto Japan's Westernization in the wake of the Meiji Restoration surveys the mission's history and work as well as its ambitious book distribution program which disseminated 100000 pamphlets in 1899. Landscape octavo. Tissue-guarded half-tone frontispiece illustrations in text. Original illustrated green card wrappers purple thread musubi toji binding front cover lettered in black. Covers a little marked small tear at lower tip of front cover contents clean: very good. unknown
1864188086Likely London: Society for Promoting Female Education in the East 1864. First collected edition covering the 1864 endeavours of Britain's first female-run missionary society and its first organization specifically for the training of women missionaries. The monthly issues include reports of work in the society's target areas of Hong Kong India and Egypt. The Society for Promoting Female Education in the East was founded in 1834 and focused initially on India. From the 1840s it expanded its efforts to include China and later the Middle East. The Female Missionary Intelligencer published monthly from 1854 carried pieces submitted by the society's operatives book reviews and engravings from drawings made in the field. Octavo. Frontispiece illustrations in text. Original blue sand-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt boards blocked in blind front cover with publisher's gilt vignette yellow coated endpapers edges sprinkled red. Pencilled 1880 ownership inscription on frontispiece verso. Binding worn including superficial splits to cloth at hinges mottling on rear cover from old damp-stain extending through to rear endpaper and last few leaves contents otherwise generally clean: very good. hardcover
186943448Chicago: Ed. Bühler's Buchhandlung 1869. paperback. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers 12mo 26 pages. 22cm. In German. Title translates as "A Critique of Christian Missionary Activities in Particular the 'Jewish Mission.'" Singerman 2126. <br> <br> Leading Chicago Reform Rabbi Bernard Felsenthal here pushes back against Christian attempts to convert Jews to Christianity. Felsenthal 1822-1908 was born in Bavaria and ordained in America by David Einhorn serving the Zion-Gemeinde of Chicago starting with its formation in 1864. Felsenthal was among the first American Reform leaders to favor participation in the Zionist Congress at Basel in 1897 against overwhelming opposition from his Reform colleagues. <br> <br> SUBJECTS Descriptor:Missions to Jews. Christianity and other religions -- Judaism. Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity. Proselytizing -- Illinois -- Chicago. Missions aupre`s des Juifs. Christianisme -- Relations -- Judai¨sme. Judai¨sme -- Relations -- Christianisme. Prose´lytisme -- Illinois -- Chicago. Christianity. Interfaith relations. Judaism. Missions to Jews. Proselytizing. Missions to Jews OCLC: 475232105. <br> <br> Light wear to wrappers with expert repair to margin of upper corner; somewhat dusty small name stamp on blank reverse of title page tiny owner stamp on rear wrapper "ex-libris Tobias Schanfaber;" see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Schanfarber internally bright about Very Good- Condition B AMR-67-9-DRXBGGF-'le. Chicago: Ed. Bühler's Buchhandlung 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
189765520Calcutta:: The Calcutta Auxiliary to the B.A.F. Bible Society 1897. Revised Edition; First edition with references. full blind-ruled sheep; all edges stained red. Some light scuffing to binding; a very nice copy. Large 8vo. Translated out of the Original Tongues by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries with Bengali Assistants. Title page printed in red and black. The Calcutta Auxiliary to the B.A.F. Bible Society, unknown
44Very fine Not used as new. About 1900s or 1910s. 30 plates paged continuously with envelope.It is a textbook by missionaries at COLLÈGE ST-IGNACE ZI-KA-WEI which is a famous school in Shanghai China for its first time in China to introduce the western educational courses and mode.
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
192812860Various locations in Hawaii and Japan 1928. 12 leaves illustrated with 123 mounted sepia-toned photographs many captioned in the image area occasional manuscript captions on the album leaves. Oblong folio. Contemporary pictorial cloth illustrated with various Japanese motifs string tied. Minor wear to cloth. Internally clean. Very good. An attractive and informative vernacular photograph album memorializing the experiences of Protestant missionaries in the Pacific. Protestant missionaries came to Hawaii starting in the 1820s and eventually became quite socially and politically influential. The first Protestant missionaries arrived in Japan in the mid-1840s. They were relegated to treaty ports and prohibited from proselytizing but once these restrictions were lifted they were fairly successful with 300 churches and 34000 converts by 1889. Their main avenue was education and by the 1920s they were well established in this sector. The present album of photographs were taken by an American missionary in Hawaii and Japan in 1927 and 1928. It is not entirely clear whether the photographer did any missionary work in Hawaii or if it was just a stop on the way to Japan; the photos from Hawaii show Honolulu harbor from the deck of the President Madison the "Club House" and Diamond Head.<br /> <br /> The photographs from Japan are more clearly missionary. The photographer was involved in teaching in Kyoto; captions include "Kami Kyoku Bishamon Cho" listed as a theological school in the 1928 Japan Mission Year Book "Japanese Language School" "The Faculty" "Nihongo Faculty" and "St Agnes Ena -- Music." There are two St. Agneses in the Year Book both middle schools one in Tokyo and one in Kyoto. Two photos of an older Japanese man in a clerical collar captioned "Mr Hayakawa" suggest this is the St. Agnes in Kyoto as Mr. K. Hayakawa is listed as the head of that school. Other individuals listed in the Year Book include Sally Rembert Thora Johnson and "Maxine" who is probably Maxine Schannep with the ABCFM. Generally the school shots are exteriors of buildings and people posing outside of them; there are also shots of Christmas trees at St. Agnes the students of "Helen’s Kindergarten" in Koriyama girls in school uniform with deer at Nara Park and several of the nurse's home at St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo.<br /> <br /> Other photos show life around Kyoto and other cities including Nikko and Fukui. Most of the men are in Western dress while the women and children wear kimono. Two photos of Buddhist monks included in the album were taken by Japanese photographer Kurokawa Suizan; these show a KomusŠin a tengai hat playing the flute and a kasa-hatted monk on the steps of a building. Finally some uncaptioned shots show a procession taking place in front of an audience. Some in the procession carry flags a few are on horseback and a few carry plants on their heads and part of the procession carries a litter.<br /> <br /> Overall the album documents both religious education and everyday life in late 1920s Japan; of particular interest to historians of Protestant missionaries. unknown
215047Milan: P. Luigi Michieli. Hardcover. Fair. Map plates 147-263 continuously paginated with volume one not present plus index. A large oblong hardcover book with a leather spine and decorated brick-red cloth boards. Ex-library with call number on spine and a few stamps on edges and endpapers. POOR CONDITION; OFFERED AS-IS. Spine is heavily scuffed and the binding is completely cracked with all plates detached but present. Plates 212-213 have small chips to edge. Plates have tanned edges but minimal edgewear overall. Otherwise the plates are clean and the images unmarred. A damaged copy in need of rebinding but still an excellent time capsule of the late 19th-century regions it depicts. Title in English is ALBUM OF THE MISSION OF FRANCISCANS IN HOLY LAND Second Book - Syria Cyprus Egypt. Volume 2 of 2 only. An album of black and white plates depicting Franciscan missionary activity in the Eastern Mediterranean. Each full-page plate has a decorative gilt border and includes descriptive captions in Latin Italian French English and German. Measures approximately 12.75"x 9.5." No copyright date given; book is circa 1890. P. Luigi Michieli hardcover
19556091Various locations in Costa Rica and Panama 1955. Very good. Three photograph albums: 10 leaves illustrated with thirty photographs most with manuscript annotations in white pencil; 22 leaves illustrated with seventy-one photographs most with manuscript annotations; 20 leaves illustrated with forty-nine photographs each with manuscript annotation. Each album oblong octavo in different colored cloth bindings string tied. Minor overall wear with a handful of loose photographs. A collection of three annotated vernacular photograph albums documenting the activities of Methodist missionaries in Costa Rica and Panama in the mid-20th century. The photographs picture the subjects traveling in the two countries scenes inside and outside the classroom views of native peoples and dwellings a mission in Costa Rica and the associated language school headed by Denton Powell Royster who is pictured here and identified as "Pastor Royster". The images capture missionaries on the road at roadside picnics enjoying leisure time at meetings and dinner celebrations and engaging in similar activities. Many of the subjects are named providing excellent opportunities for deeper study; individuals here include Stan Sheldon Jean Spahr or Spahn Virginia Miller Virginia Forkell Naomi Calkine Lois Henry Lorraine Roth Betty Brown Gordon and Marilyn Marken Norm Piersma Wally DeSmet John Gilmore and others. The album was compiled by a female missionary likely a member of the Benz family as one image is captioned "Peggy Daddy Mom and Steve Benz." Another photograph of a young woman is captioned "Me enroute to the falls at Catalina." She also identifies herself in other photos including one of her swimming at Ojo de Agua but never seems to indicate her name. She appears to have been an instructor at the language school; one image shows her and a few others in "Phonetics" class and another pictures her with other teachers of the grammar class.<br /> <br /> A couple of the image indicate some of the missionaries are part of a "Honduran prayer meeting." Other scenes of interest feature a group photograph of the language school "scenes from a woodworking shop on our paseo to the Roysters" activities in a coffee processing plant and views of the Irazu volcano among others. The indigenous or local peoples pictured here include the Baltadano family of the Central American Church a woman named Angela de Varga an oxcart operator in Costa Rica a young woman identified as "Maria una buena empleada" a man named Don Antonio and a few others. Identified South American locations include Cartago Church "the ruins of the oldest church in Costa Rica" Gatun Locks and other scenes in the Panama Canal Roble Alto the countryside near Cartago and the interior of a church in Cartago. A diverse collection of images memorializing American missionary activities in South American in the Eisenhower years with excellent potential for further study. unknown
