American Madura Mission - Jubilee Volume 1834-1884 by Chandler, J.S. ; W.S. Howland ; J.E. Tracy - 1886

Madras: American Madura Mission. S.P.C.K. Press. Very Good. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean and complete in original 19th century binding of marbled boards with brown cloth spine and corner; printed spine label (chipped away) worn at corners and spine ends, a couple tiny holes in cloth at lower spine edge, some scratches to marbled boards. Frontispiece portrait of Rev. Wm. Tracy; eight Woodbury type (?) plates with tissue guards; folding Table, folding Map, folding chart bound in at rear before index. Map and folding diagrams lithographed by Ross Brothers, Madras. Pagination: [x], 83, [1], viii [index] OCLC 191224139 Early in 1834, the Jaffna mission appointed Rev. L. Spaulding to visit India, and see about opening a new mission. Their decision was to expand into the District of Madura for the founding of schools and other types of missionary labor. Thus began more than a century aid and cooperation for the betterment of the lives of the people of Madura. Illustrated with some wonderful photographs of the region and people. .