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1894055165Edinburgh: Offices of the United Presbyterian Church 1894. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Plates and folding map. FIRST EDITION. EDINBURGH : 1894. Light-grey printed wrappers; sewn book. Plates integral photos and folding map to the rear. Bright tight and clean. Pencil name and notes in light pencil to cover. Neat newspaper Obituaries of T B Prentice and MacNee tipped-in to end of the Appendix. No internal markings. Page edges foxed. Nice copy of a rare book. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD. 135 i pages. Two Appendices. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Sm.8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Literature Rarities Theology and History. . SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Offices of the United Presbyterian Church paperback
183233237Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1832. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Single issue. Pages 29-32; pages 349-384 1 viii index. Outer printed wraps present. Contents printed on front and advertisements inside the front cover and both side of the back cover. Paper untrimmed with light edge wear and toning. Interior contents clean. A map of Bombay and adjoining coast located on page 29. Articles cover the Sandwich Islands Hawaii; Choctaws; Osages; Arkansas Cherokees; and more. Crocker & Brewster unknown
183233236Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1832. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Single issue. Pages 385-416 1 viii index. Outer printed wraps present. Contents printed on front and advertisements printed inside the front cover and both sides of the back cover. Paper untrimmed with light edge wear and toning. Interior contents clean. Notable contributions regarding Native Americans include articles on the Cherokees from the Journal of Mr. Butrick; articles on the Arkansas Cherokees; Ojibeways tribe; and Indians in New York. Crocker & Brewster unknown
1848066964Paris: La Societe des Missions Evangeliques de Paris. comprising eight loose issues for Mai Juin Jul Aout Sept. Oct Nov Dec 1848 pp 186-478 sewn pamphlets with printed paper wrappers edges chipped/torn largely unopened . Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1848. La Societe des Missions Evangeliques de Paris paperback
18720005308New York: Harper & Brothers 1872. Later edition. Hardcover. Good. Two folding maps full-page woodcuts and smaller cuts. Octavo 755pp. original embossed brown cloth worn at tips of spine and chip at top joint not affecting the bright title stamping. <br/><br/>"Dr. Livingstone is the most remarkable of all the travellers who have visited Africa. . His great journey across the continent was almost entirely over gound hitherto untrodden by the foot of the white man. The information which he gives is therefore fresh and in many instances refutes and explodes the theories of previous travellers - Preface." Two folding maps full-page woodcuts and smaller cuts. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1876ZB441052NY: American Church Press 1876. original papere wrappers 76 pp. good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. NY: American Church Press unknown
18941055New York: Fleming H. Revell. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Color rubbed off in spots on cover and some spots on bottom foredge is that what you call it that is possible insect damage. Spine and corners are bumped. Typical library markings and bookplate. Good clean tight copy.; Ex-Library . Fleming H. Revell hardcover
1844ZB545684Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1844. FIRST PRINTING 1844 198 1 pp. original paper wrappers removed from a larger binding and now lacking the covers else textually clean & tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Boston: Crocker & Brewster unknown
189442914Cleveland OH: Verlag der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft Lauer & Mattill 1894. Oblong 8vo. 6 33 1 pp. 33 photo plates. Olive-green cloth elaborately decortd gilt lettrng & decrtn on frnt cvr mnr soilng shlfwr some rubbng to spine still a G copy. First edition of this scarce travel album illustrating the efforts of German-American missionaries in Japan w/ numerous street scenes in Tokyo as well as pictures of Japanese students their schools and chapels. Verlag der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft, Lauer & Mattill, hardcover
18750008020New York: Harper & Brothers 1875. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. Two folding maps full-page woodcuts and smaller cuts. Octavo 541 pages publisher's green cloth recased with new endpapers. <br/><br/>Large folding map of Central Africa is in the rear pocket full-page woodcuts and smaller cuts. Note: the double-page map listed as appearing at p. 284 is actually at p. 2. Harper & Brothers hardcover
188335151New York: Baptist Home Missions Rooms. Geo. W. Wheat Printer 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 1 619 pages. Illustrated with engravings and sketches. Green cloth hardcover with gilt publisher seal on the front cover and gilt title on the spine. Floral end sheets. Institutional markings from the Library of Congress on the right front flyleaf and title page. Card number label pasted down on the rear end paper. Front hinge cracked. A few thin cracks to the text block. Edge wear to some pages. some underlining and brief marks written in the contents section. <br /> <br /> Contents cover missions for African Americans Native Americans Chinese Missions etc. Baptist Home Missions Rooms. Geo. W. Wheat, Printer hardcover
184526066Boston: T. R. Marvin 1845. Paperback. Near Fine. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Near Fine copy with splitting and loss along ends of narrow backstrip. The committee concluded that slave-holding Choctaws and Cherokees should be admitted to churches which were under the care of A.B.C.F.M. missionaries. T. R. Marvin paperback
1885248751885. Leitch spent 11 years in Sri Lanka with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. She was co-author of "Seven Years in Ceylon" published by the American Tract Society. In this photo she is seated with a book under her arm surrounded by four adorable Sri Lankan girls. <br /> <br /> Cabinet card albumen photograph title beneath gilt edges. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2". A bit of light marking o/w very good condition. unknown
1856DEMO000593IChicago : Diocese of Illinois 1856 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo 30 pages blue printed wrappers <br/><br/>Not in ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS - perhaps because no printer or location is explicit. "Another diocesan year has ended with its labours and cares comparatively easy to forget; its sins and omissions which we cannot and dare not." Includes an account of Bishop Whitehouse's labours and omissions." Note: "This address is found as a second edition in the 'Journal of the Protestant Episcopal Church . 1856. It also circulated as a separate with text of wrapper title same as title page - Byrd 2552." Diocese of Illinois paperback
181157660Philadelphia: printed by Thomas and William Bradford no. 2 South Front Street 1811. 8vo pp. 52; partially unopened; original drab paper wrappers; dampstain in the top margin of the first 16 pages; otherwise very good. Includes extracts from journals and letters of perhaps a dozen missionaries reporting in from Kentucky Ohio Virginia Tennessee North Carolina and including one to the Wyandots around the shores of Lake Ontario. Similar titles were issued in 1812 and 1813. American Imprints 23735; Sabin 65183. printed by Thomas and William Bradford, no. 2, South Front Street unknown
1845ZB545682Boston: T. R. Marvin 1845. 220 pp. original paper wrappers removed from a larger binding and now lacking the covers else textually clean & tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Boston: T. R. Marvin unknown
1895508680A.D. Worthington and Company 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. 'Sold Only Through Subscription.' 8vo publisher's sheepskin with gilt ruled spine panels and gilt stamped burgundy morocco label floral endpapers speckled edges. 641pp. Frontispiece portrait color engraved foldout map. 'Superbly Illustrated with steel plate portraits and upwards of twoo hundred choice engravings mainly from instantaneous photographs taken from life . and a map showing the author's journey around the world.' With just a bit of rubbing to the extremities and a few faint dampstains the binding remains very clean and supple an uncommonly nice sheepskin survival; map torn about 3' beneath the first horizontal fold text entirely clean and sharp. Harriet Clark was a notable writer and sponsor of missions founder of the 'Mizpah Circle' missions group for girls. A.D. Worthington and Company hardcover
18560007094New York and Auburn: Miller Orton & Mulligan 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo; viii 240 pages blind embossed brown cloth spine faded front hinge started foxing. <br/><br/>"My book is a record of facts. The style is my own the material was furnished on the Border. The scenes through which I passed were in some respects supremely ridiculous and must be laughable; there were others which were inhuman and must therefore excite horror. To write of events in any other manner than that in which they occurred would not be a true history - Author's Advertisement." Howes M175; Graff 2645; Wagner-Camp-Becker 277. McNamara preached the gospel in northwest Missouri before accepting a call to a church in Chicago in 1853. In 1854 he was appointed as a missionary to the Kansas Territory. He started a parish at Ft. Leavenworth. "A vehement abolitionist he became involved in a heated argument with the post commander and was banned from the fort - KANZAS: The Territorial Years A K-State Libraries exhibit." McNamara became an arch-foe of W. P. Richardson General of the Kansas Militia and a flaming pro-slavery advocate. Note: the Appendix presents the Black Laws of the Kansas Territorial Code the Draco-Kansas Code. Miller, Orton & Mulligan hardcover
1848DEMO015778IParis & Lyon: Librairie de Poussielgue-Rusand 1848. First French edition. Hardcover. Very Good. lithographs. 12mo 408 pages quarter red calf marbled boards lacks half-title. Ex libris Francis Reynolds Dickinson. <br/><br/>Howes D286; Graff 3826; Field 1425; Sabin 82266; Smith 9549; Strathern 511:iii "Contains Father Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau . he continued . to the country of the Assiniboines and arrived at Fort Augusta . He returned to Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville -- Wagner- Camp - Becker 141:3." Contains only 8 trimmed of its 13 chromolithographed plates lacking also its illustrated half-title. Librairie de Poussielgue-Rusand hardcover
183133759Boston: Crocker and Brewster 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. viii 400 pages. Brownish marbled paper covered boards with leather corners and spine. Red leather title label on the spine. Light to moderate scattered foxing and toning to the contents. An additional smaller pamphlet consisting of 4 pages is inserted between page 368 and 369. The pamphlet is titled - "The Missionary Herald A Monthly Publication of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions." <br /> <br /> Contents include conditions of Native American tribes; missions in the Sandwich Islands Hawaii; the American Colonization Society; a letter written to Georgia Governor George Gilmer regarding Georgia's treatment of the Cherokees from Rev. Samuel Worcester New Echota Cherokee Nation and much more. Crocker and Brewster hardcover
1846List2863New Orleans Louisiana 1846. Single letter three 8 x 10 inch pages. Torn at folds some tears repaired with archival tape; hole at location of seal; otherwise very good to excellent. John Holt Rice 1818–1878 was the son of a Presbyterian minister and nephew of Archibald Alexander founding professor of the Princeton Theological Seminary from which Rice graduated in 1845. When he wrote this letter he was working as a city missionary to the poor in New Orleans. Rice would spend his career ministering around the southern United States before his death from yellow fever. His correspondent is John Cameron Lowrie 1808–1900 a Scottish immigrant fellow Princeton graduate and a missionary in Colonial India. When his health became too precarious to remain abroad Lowrie returned to serve with the Board of Foreign Missions.<br /> <br /> The subject of missions boards was part of the Old School-New School controversy and schism in the Presbyterian Church particularly over whether missionary work should be primary the Old School view or secondary the New School view to the Church’s work.1 Those holding the latter view were satisfied with the work of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM which was not a specifically Presbyterian body. Those of the former view believing that the Church’s missionary board ought to be itself Presbyterian formed the Western Foreign Missionary Society. When the Church’s second schism occurred in 1837 the Western society was <br /> renamed the Board of Foreign Missions BFM and headquartered in New York City.<br /> <br /> In this letter Rev. Rice finds himself in the delicate position of being an Old School supporter of the BFM ministering to Congregationalists and New School-raised supporters of the ABCFM. He writes to Rev. Lowrie requesting that copies of the BFM’s monthly Missionary Chronicle be sent to him in a timely manner as this was “a matter of some importance to us who love our own board of foreign missionsâ€:<br /> <br /> “You are probably aware that our churches in this city are composed of very heterogeneous materials many of the members are from New England and were brought up in the congregational church and many were connected with New School churches at the north. This causes no difficulty or division All unite very cordially in support of the Old School church but the sympathies of many are with the American Board of Missions. They know nothing about ours and have some little prejudice against us for our separation. It would be very impudent to argue that question with them now or attempt to convince them that our own board ought to be patronised by those connected with one of our churches rather than the American. But I feel certain that if they knew more of our operations they would take an interest in them.â€<br /> <br /> Rice also notes that he is an editor for the New Orleans Protestant newspaper and suggests that Lowrie send “something now and then†to excite “missionary zealâ€. Of interest to scholars of Presbyterian history especially the 19th-century Old School-New School schism.<br /> <br /> 1 Rev. Dr. Michael Parker “175 Years of Presbyterian World Mission†Presbyterian Historical Society archived November 1 2023 at https://web.archive.org/web/20231101183954/http://www.history.pcusa.org/history-online/topics-note/history-world-mission. unknown
1877253071San Francisco: P.J. Thomas 1877. Plates some folding. 192pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later black buckram spine gilt. Light soiling to front endpapers. Frontispiece with some repaired closed tears other paper breaks not repaired. Internally clean. About very good. Plates some folding. 192pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An illustrated account of the Catholic missions in California. The frontispiece shows St. Mary's College. Cowan notes that some copies were issued with a large map of San Francisco which is not present in this volume. Cowan p.166 P.J. Thomas unknown
1863DEMO014559INew York: P. J. Kenedy 1863. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontispiece portrait. 8vo; 532 4 pages modern brown cloth inscription on flyleaf 1889 something was rubbed out from title-page below the publisher's imprint. <br/><br/>Translation of his "Cinquante nouvelles lettres". Howes D289; Smith 9569; Wagner-Camp- Becker 308:2; Sabin 82277. "Two of Father De Smet's journeys described here are especially worth noticing. The first is his visit to the Sioux in September and October of 1848; and the second is the description of the "Grand Desert" in 1851 -WCB." Howes reports that the portrait is "only found in some few copies of the 1863 edition." This copy has the steel-engraved portrait of DeSmet. P. J. Kenedy hardcover
187746051San Francisco: Compiled Printed and Published by P.J. Thomas No. 505 Clay Street 1877. 8vo. 192 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. 9 plates 1 large folding of St. Mary’s College 1 folding map of The Laguna Pond of Dolores. Publisher’s brick-red cloth elaborate gilt decoration & lettering on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor bumping head & foot of spine corners minor wear to lower corners still a VG- copy w/ bookplate of the Gentlemen’s Sodality Library at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco on front pastedown w/ stamp of book number. First edition of this rare account of the impact of the Catholic and Jesuit missionaries in California. In addition Thomas has included extensive notes on early explorations of California as well as appendices on The Pious Fund. Of interest is the description and folding map of the Laguna of Dolores which commemorated the report by Gov. Neve of 1777 referring to a Lake Dolores that was located in San Francisco near where the Protestant Orphan Asylum stood in 1877 which site is today bounded by Haight Buchanan Hermann and Laguna Streets. Compiled, Printed and Published by P.J. Thomas, No. 505 Clay Street, hardcover
1850DEMO015143ILille France: L. Lefort 1850. Stated Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. steel-engraved frontispiece. 8vo 258 pages 20th century half sprinkled calf marbled boards original wrappers bound in place. <br/><br/>Needs to be read with de Smet's LETTERS AND SKETCHES . AMONG THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 1843 which contains several letters not included in this French text; but this French text "contains material not found in the English - Wagner-Camp-Becker 113a:5." Howes M288; Graff 3831; Monaghan 1332. Binding by "Reliure Francais". Issued in the Bibliotheque Historique et Morale this is actually the Third French Edition. Steel-engraved frontispiece. L. Lefort hardcover