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Priests and Politicians: Protestant and Catholic Missions in Orthodox Ethiopia, 1830-1868
by Crummey, Donald
London: Oxford University Press, 1972. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. index, viii, 176p. dj. 22cm. Price sticker on jacket flap. Name on endpaper.
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$60.00
History of the American Baptist African and Haytien Missions. For the Use of Sabbath Schools. By the Author of Philip Everhard, or History of the Baptist Indian Missions
Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Union, 1831. Hardcover. Good. 70p. Old quarterbindingOriginal leather backed marbled boards. 15cm. Cover basically sound but heavily rubbed and rather worn with edge portions gnawed. Lacks leaf preceding half-title and rear free endpaper. Small hole in front cover and first few pages. Stains on endpaper. Contents are also basically sound with light to moderate foxing.Pages 6-56 in this little book relate to the American Colonization Society and the early Baptist...
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$275.00
![[Thirtieth through Thirty-Seventh] Annual Report of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/558/495/830495558.0.b.jpg)
[Thirtieth through Thirty-Seventh] Annual Report of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association
by Hawaiian Evangelical Association
Honolulu: The Hawaiian Board, 1899. Hardcover. Good. Bound volume containing seven consecutive annual reports. 82, 90, 73, 90, 90, 106, 106p. Old red buckram. 22 cm. Modest cover soiling. Clean ex lib. (Chicago Theological Seminary). Original wrappers not preserved.
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$140.00
Missionary Heroes in Oceania.
by LAMBERT, John C.:
London: Seeley and Co.Ltd, 1910.. True Stories of the Intrepid Bravery and Stirring Adventures of Missionaries with Uncivilized Man, Wild Beasts and the Forces of Nature. Pp.163/12(ads), black & white frontispiece + 7 further black & white plates, presentation notation to front free endpaper, spotting to endpapers. Blue cloth with green and red 'art nouveau' floral decoration to front and spine, gilt illustration of tribesmen to front and gilt title to spine. Scarce. VG.
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$101.36
Adventure on the Highway to Holiness
by Carrol Wannell
The testimony of two ladies who set out on an adventure of faith.
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$12.67
![Robert Mitchell. Pioneer Missioner to the Inland [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/232/933/1583933232.0.b.jpg)
Robert Mitchell. Pioneer Missioner to the Inland [Signed]
by Scrimgeour, R.J
Adelaide: Published by Author. 1994. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Signed by the author on title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 110 pages. Rev. Robert Mitchelll was the first in the field in a number of areas in the Presbyterian Church. In 1894 he was the first missioner to the Smith of Dunesk Mission at Beltana, SA. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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$19.84
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Typed Letter, signed. Two Pages Dated Sept. 21 [1937] at Diong Loh
by Rinden, Arthur O
Near Fine. Letter to a supporter in New Haven, Conn. about the education work being carried out and the fact that the war situation has worsened enough the Rinden's wife and three children would leave on a transport that had been ordered to take "a goodly number" of American to Kobe, for ultimate travel to America. Rinden had come to China in 1926 and was a missionary in Diong Loh in China's Fukien [Fujian] Province.
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$150.00
Journal Of The Rev GEORGE CHAMPION
by Booth Alan R.(Ed)
Pages slightly yellowing. Portrait as frontis plus 5 b&w illustrations This Journal is important for accounts of Piet Retief and Dingane and the Frontier Wars. Covered in archival plastic.
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$13.97
A Saint Among Savages
by Kingsland, Rosemary
London: Collins. 1980. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs by John Wright. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 183 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$11.91
Sur les Pistes de L'A.E.F.
by Briault, Maurice, 1874-1953
Paris: Alsatia, 1945. Paperback. Very Good/Good. photos, illustrations, 285p. dj. Untitled softcover with dj. 25 cm. Jacket somewhat soiled and and has some edge-wear. Moderate browning in text. Unopened. French text. The author had been a missionary in what is now Gabon early in the 20th century.
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$25.00
American Board Quarterly News Bulletin, Congregational House, Boston, February 16, 1923
Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missiona, 1923. Good. (4)p. folded newsletter. 28cm. Two later horizonal creases. Bottom two-thirds of first page browned. Small tear at base of fold. Nine headed paragraphs about a variety of American Board activities and personnel -- five are China-related.
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$25.00
GENERAL EVANGELINE BOOTH OF THE SALVATION ARMY
by Wilson, P. W
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good, in very good- jacket. ; 264pp. .
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$15.00
The Journals of Ernest George Fenton Hall: Pioneer & Hero.
by FENTON HALL, Ernest George.:
London Christian Literature Crusade,1945.. 11th edition. "George Fenton Hall, the subject of this memoir, was one of the first four Amazonian pioneers of the W.E.C.[Worldwide Evangelization Crusade]. The plunge into the trackless Amazon forest in search of a tribe of Indians taken by this intrepid young Crusader is the enthralling drama of this book....Fenton took risks...in carrying neither medicines nor mosquito-net with him..." His mission ended in tragedy, but others, inspired by Hall's example,...
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$12.67
The Missionary Herald, for the Year 1821
Boston: Published for the Board by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. index, viii, 400p. Original tree calf. 23cm. Old stains on a couple of leaves. Three or four small blank corners misfolded when bound. Former owner's red name stamp on verso of title-leaf and another partially removed stamp at base of first page of Index. Foxing on endpapers and adjacent leaves. The April-September issues (at pages 11-121, 129-143, 169-178, 214-218, 241-250, and 278-283) contain a report, in six...
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$450.00
Mongolian Plains and Japanese Prisons
by Broughton D G
First Edition. The story of New Zealand missionaries in Outer Mongolia in 1940s who were later imprisoned by the Japanese. Photographs and line drawings in the text.Simple map. Gift inscription on inside front cover.
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$12.67
Travels in South Africa. Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society
by Campbell, John, 1766-1840
1815. Hardcover. Fair. frontis (portrait), folding map, 8 plates (1 folding), xvi, 582p. Later 3/4 leather (marbled boards with large brown leather backstrip and large corners). 21cm. No half-title present. Map uncolored. Front and back covers detached. Trimmed when rebound leaving adequate but narrow margins. Title page discolored in upper right corner. All edges colored yellow (probably when rebound). An important and reasonably balanced account. Theal, an influential (and racially biased) white...
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$250.00
They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola (Recollections of the Pioneers of British Columbia)
by Whitehead,Margaret [ed]
University of British Columbia Press, 1988 8vo, Dust jacket, 11 + 203pp, Light edge wear to top edge of jacket, Few minor spots of foxing to page fore-edge otherwise an excellent near fine copy. Overseas orders may require extra postage costs. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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$12.67
Aucas Downriver: Dayuma's Story Today
by Wallis, Ethel Emily
New York: Harper & Row. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is age-toned and marked. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 126 pages. The story of missionaries amongst the Huaorani people of Ecuador. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$13.23
Historical Sketches of Savage Life in Polynesia; with Illustrative Clan Songs
by Gill, Rev. W. W
Wellington: George Didsbury: Government Printer, 1880. viii, 232 pp. First Edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt on the spine and cover. Orange endpapers. Text block in good condition. Light foxing to the extremities. Former owner's signature on the title page. Reverend William Wyatt Gill (1828 – 1896) was an English missionary who worked in Australia and the South Pacific region. In this volume, Gill recorded indigenous myths and songs. He noted that...
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$166.64
T. Elmira, Christian School Mistress
by [Photograph]
n.p.: Children's Missionary Society of the Lutheran Church, n.d. (19th century). Very Good. Carte de Visite photo (5.7 x 8.7 cm. image, as trimmed along top with some loss of photographic image) and mounted on larger thin, stiff card (also trimmed at top) with rounded corners. Information about the Children's Missionary Society and the cost (25 cents) of annual membership printer on back of card. We don't know where this Christian School Mistress was located but assume it was some domestic or foreign...
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$125.00
A History of Christian Missions: The Pelican history of the church Volume 6
by Stephen Neill
Copyright 1964 British paperback called 'History of Christian missions' obtained in Africa from a British missionary. Clean unmarked pages. May be a first edition. Copyright 1964 and first published 1964 with no other date. Photo of author Stephen Neill inside front cover. Pages are lightly tanned and totally intact. Cover has a few light creases and some discoloration from age, but no tears or marks. Overall good + to very good condition for a vintage paperback. 622 pages!
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$7.25
The War in the East
by Southgate, Horatio, 1812-1894
New York: Pudney & Russell, 1845. 2nd ed. Paperback. Very Good. 93p. Original blue cloth. 16 cm. Cover rubbed around edges and also scuffed. Bookplate ("Abraham Lawrence"). First published in 1854 and reissued in 1855 (2nd ed.) and 1856 (3rd ed.). Includes two essays: (I) The Question at Issue (pages 5-42); and (II) European Protection of Oriental Christianity (pages 43-93). Southgate traveled extensively in the Middle East before being consecrated in 1844 as a Missionary Bishop for the Ottoman Empire...
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$175.00
Jewels of Fine Gold
by Cantle, Merle
Sydney: Outreach Book Service. 1980. Octavo Size [approx 13x19cm]. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations. 86 pages. An autobiography of a missionary pioneer among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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$9.92
Theory and Practice in Church Life and Growth: Studies in East and Central Africa over the Last Hundred Years
by Workshop in Religious Research
[Nairobi, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. Contents duplicated on paper of various colors to indicate the various disciplines represented: text of the 56 papers presented [490p.]; abstracts of the papers presented which only go through the first 42 papers presented [22p.]; handwritten interdisciplinary critiques of the 43rd paper presented [2p.]; and Conclusions of Disciplinary Working Groups on Future Research in Africa [3p.]. Two contemporary red binders. 34cm. Minor cover spotting. At head of...
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$100.00
A Parish on Wheels. By rev. J. Howard Swinstead, M.A., Of the Society of St. Andrew, Salibury. With An introduction By The lord Bishop of Salisbury.
by SWINSTEAD, J. Howard.:
London: Gardner, Darton & Co., 1897.. A very good original cloth binding. Second edition signed by the Author, February 1897 (The first edition was published in December, 1896). 8vo. 7.75" x 5.25" x 1.00". pp.xviii/pp.233/[4pp. - Adverts] . A good tight green cloth binding, edges rubbed and bumped. Illustrated front board, image dulled. Titles in red to both front board and spine. Smooth spine dulled and rubbed. Endpapers lightly foxed. Handwritten dedication to front endpaper: "Hettie Tutin from J. H....
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$101.36
