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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
