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1852List2521London 1852. Five groups of documents measuring 13 x 8 inches various paginations see full description below. Fine condition. A scarce set of primary source documents relating to the protection of British territory in the Caribbean in particular along the Mosquito Coast during the period of varied interests in the area in the period following the Anglo-Spanish agreement on the slave trade. Consisting of a series of secretarial copies of reports delivered to Peter McQuhae Commodore of H.M.S. Imauam stationed in Jamaica these dispatches offer an overview of the issues confronting the British Navy in Jamaica during the period and in the Caribbean more broadly. Most of the documents refer to issues with Cuba the most interesting perhaps being a letter warning of an impending filibustering expedition against Cuba by a pro-slavery faction in the American South. <br /> <br /> The group consists of five groups of bound documents some bound out of order and likely bound later. Contents are as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. Addington A.M. Four Page Report Concerning Placing a Ship of War at Grey Town to Discourage Invasions on the Mosquito Coast March 13 1851. <br /> <br /> Henry Addington writes McQuhae to recommend stationing a warship at Grey Town:<br /> <br /> “.it would be sufficient that a Ship of War should from time to time look in grey Town without remaining there at any time long enough to endanger the health of the crew… to provide for the case which is possiblee tho’ not at all likely that during the interval between the visits of a Ship of War some expedition of Nicaraguan or some of the North Americans returning from California might take advantage of the comparatively unprotected state of the lace to take possession of it and that the cruiser on its return to Grey Town might find the place so occupied Lord Palmerston concieves taht in such an event it would seem to be inconsistent with the Honor of this Country that a British Ship of War should acquiesce in such an aggression and it would be right that the intruder should be expelled if the Commander of the Ship of War should find as he probably would that he had the means of doing so without much difficulty and that in case he should repel the intruders and re-establish the authorities of the Mosquito Government demanding the liberation of any British or Mosquito subjects who might have been made Prisoners and holding hostages for their relief if they should have been removed up into the interior of the Country.<br /> <br /> It It is to be hoped however that all questions of dispute in regard to Grey Town will beoon be settled because Her Majesty’s government has through Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington proposed to the Government of the United States that an arrangement should be made by which the Sovereignty of Grey Town… should be transferred to the State of Costa Rica… Lord Palmerston desires me to add that there are at present at Washington a plenipotentiaries both from Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the purpose of conducting this negotiation…â€<br /> <br /> 2. Addington G.M. Single Page Letter in Secretarial Hand Warning of Incoming Ships to Cuba Carrying Enslaved Individuals January 24 1852. <br /> <br /> Addington writes to McQuhae about two incoming vessels carrying enslaved Africans passing on information received at Rio De janeiro by another British vessel:<br /> <br /> “I am directed by Earl GraH.M. Minister at Rio reporting that he had recieved information that two Slavers had sailed from Havana to… the coast of Africa… with the intention of returning with Cargoes of slaves which are to be landed at the Entrade de Cuchillo in Cuba.â€<br /> <br /> 3. Seymour G.F. et al. Four Reports Bound Together on Varied Subjects including the Case of the Creole British Fishing Rights in Spanish Waters off of Cuba and Porto Rico and the Case of a Detained British Vessel in Cuba 1852. <br /> <br /> A series of four reports addressed to McQuhae on various subject as follows:<br /> <br /> A. Report dated May 17 1852 from Seymour discussing the case of the Creole detained in 1851:<br /> <br /> “.enclosing copies of a letter from the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs approving of the course I had pursued with regard to the Creole and of a despatch from the Earl of Malmesbury to Her Majesty’s Minister at Madrid relative to the rights of British Subjects to fish on the coast of Cuba…â€<br /> <br /> B. Letter from Augustus Stafford Apriul 23 1852 discussing the Creole mostly discussing the enclosure of varied reports on the subjects but with little specific information. <br /> <br /> C. Addington A.M. April 21 1852 letter discussing the Creole case and the enclosure of documents. <br /> <br /> D. Earl of Malmesbury April 14 1852 letter discussing the Creole case in more detail:<br /> <br /> “ The Right thus claimed rests on this universally admitted precept of international Law “dominium finitur ubi finitur armorum vis†which in modern practice has been construed to mean “about one marine league from the mainland†and H.M.’s Govt are clearly justified in demanding that the Spanish authorities shall be ordered not to meddle or interfere with British fishermen outside that three mile boundary…â€<br /> <br /> 4. Earl of Malmesbury et al. Series of Three Secretarial Copies of Reports Concerning Impending Filibuster Raids on Cuba Giving Instructions for Assisting Spanish Forces. <br /> <br /> A very interesting series of reports detailing the planned response to pending “Piratical Attacks†showing the extent to which British forces were prepared for an American filibuster attack on the island and the degree to which they intended on assisting the Spanish forces. As follows:<br /> <br /> A. Seymour G.F. Secretarial Copy of Letter Written on May 5 1852 from Cumberland at Bermuda relaying the transmission of a full report of instructions to the British forces regarding an impending filibuster raid:<br /> <br /> “ I hereby enclose for your guidance… orders… relative to the assistance which is to be afforded by Her Majesty’s Ships on the application of the Captain General of Cuba in the Transport of Troops in the event of a Piratical attack being again made on that island by which you will govern your conduct…â€<br /> <br /> B. Earl of Malmesbury. Secretarial Copy of a Letter Dated April 10 1862 discussing piratical attacks:<br /> <br /> “.that in the event of a Piratical Attach being made upon that island… HM’s ships might assist in conveying troops to any poiunt of the Coast of Cuba at which the invading Party might effect a landing…â€<br /> <br /> C. Honley P. Secretarial Copy of an Undated Letter c. 1852 regarding piratical attacks:<br /> <br /> “Her Majesty’s ships might assist in coveying Troops to any point off the Coast of Cubat at which the invading Party might effect a landing… you should be instructed until further ORders that if the Captain General of Cuba should require your assistance for the transport of troops in the manner pointed out in your abovementioned dispatch you should comply with that demand…â€<br /> <br /> 5. Crampton Sir John. Copy of a Letter in Secretarial Hand Relaying the Impending Danger of a Pro-Slavery Filibuster Mission from Florida May 17 1852. <br /> <br /> A fascinating letter relaying information received from M. Calderon de la Barca concerning an impending filibuster mission against Cuba led by a Dr. Wren part of an organization called “The Lone Star Association:â€<br /> <br /> “.it would appear that the government of the United States has also received an intimation that something of the sort is on foot for the President informed M. Calderon that orders had already been sent to the U.S. Authorities at the different Ports of the Union to be prepared to take vigorous measures for the repression of any such attempts… an expedition is in fact meditated by certain parties in the South and that it is intended that it should leave some Port of Florida. The real object of this expedition however as as I am told not Cuba… but San Domingo for the purpose of acting as auxiliaries to the Dominicans against the Haytians… it is by no means impossible that its ultimate aim would be Cuba… the persons I am given to understand engaged in the expedition are a Dr. Wren who is president of a society called “The Lone Star State Association…â€<br /> <br /> The letter is worthy of further study - we find references to a Dr. Wren in newspaper articles from the period but were unable to pinpoint his identity or the history of his organization. An article from a Loudon Tennessee newspaper describes Dr. Wren as a “representative of New Orleans societies†and described a meeting in Loudon in 1852 trying to recruit for the overthrow of the Spanish colonial government of Cuba through an invasion. unknown
1816271<p>New York: J. Seymour American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth 1816. first edition. modern 1/4 niger morocco. Good. Inspiration for the First Mission to Hawaii. <br /><br />Rare in commerce most copies have been acquired by American institutions. Few copies have come to documented auction in the past 100 years. Of those made available about half are decommissioned library copies including a copy that sold for over $15000 at a 2006 Sotheby's auction.<br /><br />Condition: Very Good<br /><br />IMPORTANCE & BACKGROUND<br /><br />A biographical account of the lives of five Hawaiian youths who would come to form a core of initial students enrolled at the new Foreign Mission School established at Cornwall Connecticut in 1816. The vivid accounts of Captain Cook's and others explorers' voyages to the Sandwich Islands Hawaii and other Pacific islands generated interest in the U.S. to properly educative Hawaiians in both academic and Christian teachings. The school formed under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM would serve to educate foreign students in preparation for missionary work in their native lands and elsewhere. <br /><br />A Narrative of Five Youth from the Sandwich Islands was the first of many publications intended to raise funds and stir up popular support for the new school as well as for the first Christian mission sent to the Hawaiian Islands three years later. The publications were a great success leading to the significant funding and public support critical to early efforts to fold Hawaii within the cultural and commercial influence of the United States.<br /><br />BOOK INFO<br /><br />Published in 1816 in New York by J. Seymour under the direction of ".agents appointed to establish a school for heathen youth" e.g. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. First edition first printing. Bound in modern 1/4 green niger morocco with gilt spine lettering over finely woven green cloth backed boards. Refreshed endpapers. Thin Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/8". Collated and complete: 3 4-44 p. <br /><br />ABOUT THE WORK & HISTORICAL CONTEXT<br /><br />By the early 1800s Hawaii had become a key aspect of America's growing trade with China. It was a critical resupply port for American ships on the trade route to China and a lucrative source for sandalwood. American merchants saw commercial possibilities that could be expanded. Protestant missionaries saw heathens in need of salvation via Christian conversion.<br /><br />This is a biographical account of and strong bit of fundraising propaganda on how five Hawaiian youths were saved from their heathen ways and savage pasts through a civilized education and Christian conversion. While the backgrounds of the youth vary - one was the son of a chief and another the survivor of brutal inter-tribal warfare for example-- the stories of these five youths share a number of common elements. All had spent time as sailors on American trade ships. Three had served at sea in the War of 1812. Most had experienced periods of extreme hardship after reaching New England. All found sponsors teachers and spiritual guides who helped them on their path to converting to Protestantism.<br /><br />CONDITION INFO<br /><br />The book is Good to Very Good by early 19th century American imprint standards.<br /><br />Binding is tight. Leather is supple. Areas of dust and light soiling to cloth. Lightly toned pages overall with light foxing. Some abrasion to paper along gutter margins of first few pages. Browning to first and last page with some brittleness and chipping. The paper used by the printer was quite thin so the text block background is darkened a bit by opposing page text on the same leaf as in all copies. No writing ex libris marks or library markings. Slight loosening at the head of the first few leaves where binding cords are exposed. A few smudges marginal paper nicks and other signs of light handling.<br /><br />.</p> J. Seymour, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth)
18204634Philadelphia: Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States 1820-1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Half leather with marbled boards spine shellacked outer hinges cracked and filled with paste red leather spine title label 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches college bookplate we notice one oval ink name stamp on one page of text. Lined end papers recent former owner's signature on front paste-down notes in pencil drawing attention to the revival articles in the volume one leaf cut and laid in. Detailed list of numbers below. The periodical numbers in this bound volume are:Vol. II. No. XI February 1820; No. XIII May 1820; No. XIV August 1820; No. XV November 1820; No. XVI February 1821; No. XVII May 1821.Vol. III. No. II February 1822; No. III March 1822; No. IV April 1822; No. V May 1822; No. VI. June 1822; No. VIII August 1822; No. X. October 1822; No. XI November 1822.14 issues in all.Contributors in this volume include Luther Rice Robert B. Semple John Mason Peck Job Washburn Adoniram Judson Ann Hasseltine Judson William Warder of Kentucky Obadiah B. Brown Pliny Fisk Levi Parsons S. M. Noel Indian School in Kentucky Hosea Holcombe Elder Thomas Smiley of the Chemung Association William Ward India Daniel Hascall Wm. Staughton Lucius Bolles Lott Carey.This series was published in six volumes from 1818 to 1825. They are no. 3209 in Roberts Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "A periodical rich in revival material including letters of John Mason Peck."This volume contains theological articles annual reports of the Board Bible commentary missionary letters of Adoniram Judson reports of missions to Cherokee Indians home missionary reports revival news from Kentucky and elsewhere African mission reports &c. It also contains a report on the burning of widows in India. There are tables of all of the congregations within the Baptist Board's overview with their Association state number of members name of correspondent with their address times of meetings and places of meetings. Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States hardcover
1855DEMO015061ICincinnati: Moore Wilstach Keys & Co. 1855. First edition. Duodecimo. Very Good. folding map. 12mo x 216 pages blind embossed chocolate cloth paper residue on spine Ex-library with pockets but no numerals on spine bookplates. minor splits; western margin of map crinkled torn chip in lower left blank margin lightly stained. <br/><br/>This was the Second Book on Kansas Territory and the first from personal observation. . Boynton and company were advance scouts for "The American Reform Tract and Book Society" and "The Kansas League" . They had many adventures traveling from Cincinnati in the Autumn of 1854 including cholera on board the riverboat. Howes B677; Graff 376; Streeter IV:1990; Wagner-Camp-Becker 250. Asks and answers the question of how Christians should respond to the proposed spread of slavery to Kansas Territory. With a folding map of Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma / Indian Territory by Henry V. Boynton Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST 4. Uncommon: Note: Cora Dolbee in the Kansas Historical Quarterly states that the three only copies of this book she had seen are "of the same first and probably only edition of the book ever issued - Vol. 4 no.2 May 1935." Folding map. Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. unknown
1848DEMO015918IGand / Ghent: Chez Ve Vander Schelden 1848. First Belgian edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo 589 pages contemporary full green sheep extra gilt aeg scuffed. Inked presentation in 1912 from Rev. Francis J. Harbe: Harbe died in 1913 at age 37 in San Antonio Texas. He may have acquired this when a seminarian at Belgium in 1900. <br/><br/>Howes D286; Graff 3826; Field 1425; Sabin 82266; Smith 9549; Strathern 511:iii. "This edition seems to have been prepared by the author himself. It contains more material than the edition in English "Oregon Missions" the illustrations are different and the three maps are entirely new - Sabin 82265." It has several additional letters and an Appendix pp. 360 - 378. "Origine des Americains." Contains Fr. De Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River Plateau . he continued . to the Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville -- Wagner-Cam-Becker 141.2." Contains 16 plates including the pictorial title-age and 3 folding maps. Chez Ve Vander Schelden hardcover
189931401Bruxelles: Charles Bulens 1899. - 1913. 15 volumes = 15 years. 1899 and 1906 in 12 fascicules rest hardcovers half cloth. With illustrations. Very good set see image. Charles Bulens hardcover
1925biblio593Bombay: Revd. S.R. Santos 1925. Good. <p>Bombay 1925 cloth worn binding still tight fully illustrated text fineOblong folio signature of a donator of the book Published for the Diocese to send as its chief exhibit to the Universal Missionary Exhibition Rome 1925 Only 8 physical copies located in world librariesworldcat An extensive survey of architecture art history ethnology and portuguese catholicism in the diocese in Bombay Scarce</p> Revd. S.R. Santos hardcover
18822401020057Published by the American Board and Woman's Board of Missions Boston 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. An American Missionary Publication for Juveniles: Mostly Focused on China 24 issues 12 pages in each monthly issue. Paper is in fine condition. 20 cm Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Spine slightly sunned. Clean unmarked pages. Printed on blue paper. 144 144 pages. Profusely illustrated. Early inscription to Edith F. Means 1886. <br> Includes interesting images and descriptions of contemporary China and India. Published by the American Board and Woman's Board of Missions, Boston hardcover
190516508New York: Francis P. Harper 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Edited from original unpublished manuscript Journals and Letter Books & from his Printed Works with Historical Geographical Ethnological and other Notes. Also a Life of Father De Smet." Illustrations. Folding map in pocket at end of volume 4 Signed and dated 1905 on front free endpaper by William G Evans prominent early Denver businessman and son of Colorado territorial governor John Evans. Original green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Small wear on spine tips and rubs on bottom corners otherwise fine. <br/><br/> Francis P. Harper 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
1860004537Toronto: Anson Green 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo xi 424 pages minor foxing short breaks at the folds of the brown embossed cloth. Lacks the lithographed portrait frontispiece no evidence that it was ever inserted. Ex libris William Binkley. Rare - The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North American Indian Sales of 1999 had three works by Jones but not this one. <br/><br/>Kehkewaguonaby was a Mississauga Ojibwa Chief British father Ojibwa mother who converted to Wesleyan Methodism and was ordained a minister. These are the first journals kept by a Canadian native. He became the first native missionary to the Ojibwa and with his brother John was the first translator of books of the Bible into Ojibwa and Chippewa. He was also photographed in his native regalia circa 1844-46 - thus the earliest known photograph of a North American Indian. Sabin 36591. This work includes his autobiography with an account of his conversion experience and the details of his ministries. Anson Green hardcover
194836870Allied Liaison and Protocol Berlin 1948. Folio First Edition text in English French and Russian with numerous full-page portraits throughout; publisher's full green roan boards framed in blind upper board lettered in blind back with five raised bands covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO.150. With the separately printed publication and errata slips loosely inserted. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF COLONEL ALEXANDER PHELPS HODGES WHO SERVED AS CHIEF OF ALLIED LIAISON AND PROTOCOL FROM FEBRUARY 1947. Hodges's portrait appears at p.41. He was formerly leader of the British Military Mission to Siberia 1918-1922 his personal account of which was published as 'BRITMIS' in 1931. Allied Liaison and Protocol, Berlin, 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
1926101192Hernhut Saxony G. Winter 1926 1926. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 951p. small 8vo original cloth backed paper covered boards printed in English and Inuktitut on facing pages fine condition. Banks p. 79. Evans 365. Lande Moravian 76. O'Dea 1858. Outlines the duties and expectations of the congregation as well as the rituals of the Moravian Church particularly as it relates to Eskimo converts. . Hernhut, Saxony, G. Winter, 1926 Hardcover
1738252696A Paris: Chez Nicolas le Clerc 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-blocked calf. Remains preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; Volume XXIII only: 519 pages. Subjects; Jesuits. Society of Japan. Theology — Christian missions — General. A Paris: Chez Nicolas le Clerc hardcover
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
1916EXP019Boston: The Pilgrim Press 1916. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Boston: The Pilgrim Press 1916 Good Contents:<br />- General survey of Turkey<br />- Survey of the American missions<br />- Survey of the educational system<br />- Miscellaneous and personal<br /><br />1916 SCARCE ANTIQUARIAN COPY Book is an Ex-Library copy in good condition 353 pp 36 Plates Usual ex-library defects may be present including catalog numbers on spine card pockets stamping ex-libris bookplateor authors name and/or normal shelfwear but book is still wholly intact SEE PICTURES for any wear or defects Condition based on age of book To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked conditions of GOOD If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to send us an email The Pilgrim Press hardcover
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
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
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
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
List3148Vigan The Philippines early 20th century. Photograph measuring 5 x 6 ¾ inches mounted on heavy cardstock. Manuscript caption recto. Wear and some damage to edges; excellent. A photograph of a group of young Filipino men in suits with two white women and a child posing in front of a building. The caption reads “Grove Methodist Dormitory Boys and Missionaries Viganâ€. The Methodist Episcopal Church began planning its missionary outreach to the Philippines shortly after the 1898 American victory in the Spanish Civil War when the Philippines became an American colony. The mission center in Vigan the capital of Ilocos Sur on the island of Luzon was opened in 1904 headed by Kansan Berndt O. Peterson.1 Missionaries opened schools—with the aim of both educating and Americanizing their students—and made Vigan the base for evangelizing around the region. According to the UMC’s history of their activities in Asia many Filipinos saw the church’s activities as an extension of American imperialism leading to Nicolás Zamora’s foundation of the Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas in 1909.<br /> <br /> 1 Wade Crawford Barclay History of Methodist Missions Vol. 4 The Board of Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Church 1949. unknown
0878087362.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
190531253Honolulu: Mercantile Printing Co. Ltd. 1905. 86 2 blanks pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Scattered light foxing. Several blank margins have a wormhole. Good.<br /> <br /> Constitution By-Laws Officers Missions Members doings at the Annual Meeting Reports of various committees. Mercantile Printing Co., Ltd. unknown
