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Interesting biography of Lyman MacCallum. Born into a Canadian missionary family in Turkey he studied engineering at Queen's University and worked at mining camps in N. Ontario, then enlisted in the Canadian Army in August 1914. His lungs seriously damaged he returned to Istanbul in 1925 and was recruited by the American Bible Society. He was responsible for distributing Bibles in the Islamic Middle East, and was instrumental in publishing and printing a new translation of the Bible in Turkish when Ataturk's educational reforms of 1928 mandated the use of the new Roman style alphabet. [p 75-87, p 115-121] In 1937 he was put in charge if the affairs of both the American and the British & Foreign Bible Societies in Turkey. Book
181 p. + Frontis. Large type. Pages browned, but not brittle. 12 mo. 190 mm. Cloth backed, yellow printed and illustrated paper boards. Price sticker removed from front board. David Zeisberger (1721-1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the early American Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio; and another near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. He was also a translator of their language. Scarce. W19 Stand
310 p. Uncut and partially unopened. 8vo. 240 mm. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Near Fine. Number 828 of an edition limited to only 1000 examples. A valuable historical account of the persecution of Mohican, Deleware, Munsee, and other Indians - in spite their conversion to Christianity (by Moravian missionaries). The trail of their wanderings and their abandoned settlements was covered with the blood of Indian converts and the ruins of their homes and chaples. The end came with the burning of the last mission at Fairfield, Ontario, Canada, in 1813. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W19 Stand
1277310378.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
189917861899 bradel grand in-octavo, manque le dos - plats abimés, autographe manuscrit, illustrations : frontispice et gravures in et hors-texte, 300 pages, 1899 Tours Mame Editeur,
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
8vo., Ninth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author served in the RGA and RAF before working as a missionary in Latin America. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and 2 full-page maps in the text, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly faded else a near fine copy.
1164021249.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1331699819.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1820015695Montpellier Auguste Seguin 1820 Brochure in-8° (140 x 225mm) de 121 pp. (galerie de ver sur les bordures interne et inférieure d'une soixantaine de pages entraînant la perte de quelques lettres). Vignette de titre. Tampon ancien sur le titre.
6213journal des missionnaire d’Alger dans l’Afrique Equatoriale in 8 broché frontispice(le cardinal Labigerie)titre 347 pages,illustrations hors-texte,Paris à l’oeuvre des écoles d’Orient 1884,très bon état
ORD-3583Notes et souvenirs de voyage. Paris. Sté des Missions Évangéliques. 1930. In-8 (118 x 187mm) broché, couverture illustrée couleurs, 234 pages, illustrations photos dans le texte et très grande carte dépliante hors texte (428 x 469mm). Bon exemplaire.
500337884Berger-Levrault & Cie Sans date. Cet ouvrage est une biographie de Monseigneur Augustin Hacquard un Père Blanc basée sur sa correspondance. Il retrace sa vie ses travaux et ses voyages entre 1860 et 1901 à travers l'Algérie le Sahara et le Soudan. Le livre édité par l'abbé Marin et préfacé par le commandant Hourst s'inscrit dans une collection de conservation patrimoniale de la littérature française
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184484090Boston: Crocker and Brewster 1844. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. 7 5-44p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. No separate wrapper present. 23cm. Signed in type on page 30 by Goodell and six other missionaries. Crocker and Brewster paperback
