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8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Features: Accursed and frightful Potter's Point - a look at the forerunners, and many times the sires of the later colorful and often dangerous people who made the Old West famous; Mud Glacier Gold - Marcum's lost gold in Alaska; Village of my red brother - Mormon Indian missionaries; Seattle's Little-known Dymano - Hans Pederson and the early development of Seattle; Battle of Prairie Dog Creek; The Solid Muldoon; Ghostly Fort Dilts; Coal Oil Jimmy's Gang; Geronimo's Long Debt for a Pony - Jimmy Stevens; Missouri Scout - Greyson Welsh; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
189p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
2 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispiece, plates, illustrations in the text and large folding map; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front free endpapers. High quality reissue of the original edition of 1858.
Paris, 1944. In-8 broché de 235 pages. Etiquette en dos. Bon état
PARIS, Pro. de France des Pères blancs - 1937 - 2 frontispices - Lettrines - Culs-de-lampe - Très nombreuses photographies NB PP HT - rousseurs éparses aux premières & dernières pages - 288 + 10 pages - bon exemplaire
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding has been repaired with binding tape at both hinges where the front and rear endpaper both been torn though the super (at each) remains intact. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Over 100 plates and illustrations in color and b&w of historical landscapes, persons, Maori, missionaries, dwellings, dances, at such places as Dunstan, Auckland, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Nelson, Ngatapa, Napier, etc. Text block itself is solid, very clean and sharp-cornered. 328 pages, first, limited edition 1500 copies.
359p., illus. Biography of Ida Scudder, a medical missionary in India for over 50 years. Hardcover Good condition; spine ends worn. chipped d.j. fair
73 pages including black and white photographic plates. Recounts adventures of Christian missionaries in north-west China. Usual library markings. Only external library indications are mild discolorations where labels removed from spine. Red illustrated cloth covered boards. Title page loose but present. Prior owner's name atop illustrated front endpaper. Somewhat above-average wear. Hinges intact. Undated but appears to be circa 1925. Book
138 pages. A Smallpox epidemic struck Goa. No home was spared. the village priest placed the bodies of his four small sons on the funeral pyres. Desperate, he vowed that his remaining son would serve the gods, if only his life were spared. "The Dramatic story of a man with an illustrious heritage, an explosive ministry, and a future that is bound to sweep millions into the kingdom." - Dr. Paul Smith, The People's Church. Dab of liquid paper to half-title page. Several page corners were folded. Light wear. Book
95 pages. "Years lived on the north China plain have given the author an intimate acquaintance with demonic power and its manifestations, along with the superstitions of popular Buddhism." - from front flap. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted, small personal book-stamp in blind in front endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 15 plates, a double-page plan and large folding coloured map (neatly repaired at fold); original green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in yellow and black, gilt back, uncut, very neatly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy.
117 pages. Author spent 18 years in China where she and her husband were missionaries and where their two children were reared. Contents clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. 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
43 pages. Nicely illustrated juvenile literature. "An adventure that will inspire young and old alike: Livingstone's determination to reach his goal, his humility and love for the African people and his storng faith in God." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
pp. viii, 199 + 16 pages of photographs. 8vo. 215 mm. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Very Good. From the dust jacket: "Crusade Against Hunger is the story of a unique and little known group of Americans who are engaged in a pioneering project as important as that of the Peace Corps, and in existence for many more years." RELIGION 10
223 pages. Signed by Editor upon title page. Black and white illustrations from photos in text. "The story of a brave and noble company of men and women, inspired by the love of Christ and committed to obeying His parting directive to His disciples, recorded in Mat. 28:18-20. The story is humbly told by members of the group of missionaries who went to the Belgian Congo in the first half of the 20th century." - from Foreword. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [Lxvii], 1080 p. Codex Cumanicus. Prep. by Mustafa Argunsah - Galip Güner. First Edition. The Codex Cumanicus was a linguistic manual of the Middle Ages, designed to help Catholic missionaries communicate with the Cumans, a nomadic Turkic people. TURKOLOGY Kuman / Kypchak Reference Turkic language Philology Linguistica Lexicon Siberia Central Asia.
Two Volumes. pp. 644; 479, xxxv [Index]; + Ca. 60p. Publisher's catalog and advertisements. Nice original full cloth bindings. Stamped ownership of the Aposolic Mission House, Washington, DC. + Armorial bookplate of Rev. Joshua P. Bodfish, a theologian and book collector, born on Cape Cod, MA in 1839. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! RELIGION 10
316 pages including index. Beginning with the pre-history of the Nez Perce, he relates how, after being pedestrians for eight thousand years, acquisition of the horse radically altered their way of life. Then in rapid succession, came firearms, American explorers, British fur traders, the Manifest Destiny struggle, missionaries, Oregon Trail emigrants, settlers, gold miners, farmers, and finally war. Includes many archival photographs. Usual library markings. Average wear. Book
2 works in 1 vol., tall 12mo., First Edition thus, free endpapers lightly browned; original full tree calf, upper board with SPCK monogram blocked in blind, back with five flat bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments with red leather labels lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles (worn virtually to blind), a very good, clean, crisp copy. The second work has 2pp publisher's catalogue bound following title.Full title of first work: 'Charges to Missionaries of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at different Periods, on their Departure for their several Missions; together with their Replies to the General Board of the Society'. The two works are usually found together though the volume itself is very scarce.
TOURCOING, Chapelains de N.D. des Anges - 1932 - In-16 - Broché - 49 pages - Très propre
44 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Steveston - A Splendid Opening for a Capitalist; Murder in the Arctic - Oblate Missionaries Rouviere and LeRoux are killed; Old Fort Macleod - Southern Alberta's first white settlement; Old Man Green's Missing Hoard - Murder on Savory Island, near Lund, B.C.; Nightmare Pass Through the Rocky Mountains. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: The Ship That Turned Over In Her Grave - the 'Gulf Stream', owned by Gulf Lines, Ltd., served the Vancouver to Powell River run; Jack Fannin - this pioneer extraordinaire was the first curator and virtually creator of the British Columbia Provincial Museum; Forgotten Towns of the West Kootenay - many have been lost to flood and fire; 1689 - Year of the Massacre - Missionaries killed by the Iroquois; Klondike Journey - Part 2 of 3 on Klondike of the 1890s and the travels of Robert beresford Allison; The Gold-Plated Nickels - counterfeiting method used by a deaf-mute in the U.S. in 1880; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
