Missionaries
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Through Gates Of Splendor the Martyrdom Of 5 American Missionaries In the Ecuador Jungle
by Elisabeth Elliot
A Narrative Of the Persecution Of the Christians In Madagascar With Details Of the Escape Of the Six Christian Refugees Now In England
by J J ; and Johns, D Freeman
Missionaries Books & Ephemera
The Faith of the Crescent
by Takle, John
Calcutta: 'The Association Press' Publication Department of the National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of India and Ceylon, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 photos and a facsimile, corrigenda slip, xii, [2], 188p. Original green cloth. 18cm. Modest wear. No Jacket.
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€94.46
Vindication of the Rev. Horatio Southgate. A Letter to the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, from the Rev. Horatio Southgate, Their Missionary at Constantinople
by Southgate, Horatio
New York: Stanford and Swords, 1844. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. 39p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No separate wrapper present. 22cm. Minor foxing.
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€141.69
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Autograph Letter Signed to Sarah Yarnall. Dated New York 6mo [June?] 17th 1840
by Clapp, Phoebe
Good. Written on both sides of four long (34cm.) sheets Back of 4th leaf used for address, postmark (now gone), etc as this was folded for mailing. Some dark brown spots on all leaves and a few holes with minor loss of a few words or portions of words on the last sheet. Daniel Wheeler was a British Quaker who spent several years in Czarist Russia and is most remembered in American for a lengthy voyage in the 1830s where he spent time in Australia, Tahiti Hawaii, etc. Phoebe is writing to Yarnall to...
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€425.07
Wall Of Spears
by Mildred Cable and Francesca French
Signed by Francesca French, one of the authors behind the book. This volume was written to help those who read it to a better understanding of a little-known part of the world.
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€17.77
Yakusu" the Very Heart of Africa: Being Some Account of the Protestant Mission at Stanley Falls, Upper Congo
by Smith, H. Sutton
London: Marshall Brothers, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, photos, folding map, index, xviii, 287p. Decorated cloth. 22cm. Moderate foxing. No Jacket. A Baptist missionary.
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€85.01
Historical Notices of the Missions of the Church of England in the North American Colonies Previous to the Independence of the United States: Chiefly from the MS. Documents of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
by Hawkins, Ernest
London: B. Fellowes, 1845. Hardcover. Good. xix, 447p. Original cloth. 23cm. Substantial chipping at head of backstrip, with relatively minor fraying and chipping at base (and at cover corners). Ex library (bookplate, card pocket & spine label). Internally sound and clean.
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€57.62
Printed Lenten Season Fund Raising Letter
by Holy Ghost Fathers, St. Philip's Church, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
1943. Paperback. Very Good. Single page. 28cm. Undated (postmarked 1943 on the original mailing envelope which is present). SIGNED by one of the parish priests (George C. Reardon). Very Good. Asks of donations to assist their ministry to a flock of 90,000 scattered over a 120 square mile territory.
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€47.23
Two Printed Two-Page Missionary Fundraising Letters from Crow Agency, Montana on the New York Letterhead for Field of the American Missionary Association. Letters Dated December, 1899 and Oct., 1900
by Burgess, Mrs. J. G. ("L. M." are the initials used in the earlier letter)
New York, 1900. Fair. Later folds for mailing. Both fundraising pieces are rather heavily stained along right side of center section. The earlier fundraising letter (33 cm.) reports on an Indian girl called Pearl who had sent a letter telling Burgess that she had gotten engaged and was going to join the Catholic Church. The letter concludes happily with the girl changing her mind and deciding that it was more important to keep her faith than her betrothed. The later fundraising letter (28 cm.) reports...
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Memoir of Rev. Levi Parsons, First Missionary to Palestine from the United States: Containing Sketches of His Early Life and Education, His Missionary Labors in this Country, in Asia Minor and Judea, with an Account of this Last Sickness and Death. Second Edition: Containing Two Discourses in Defens e of Missions and Revivals of Religion ... Also, Extracts from a Farewell, Address, Delivered before "The Society of Enquiry Upon the Subject of Missions, at Andover, September, 1817
by Morton, Daniel Oliver, 1788-1852, compiler and editor
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1830. 2nd ed. (with some changes). Hardcover. Good. 408p. Original cloth backed boards. 20 cm. Backstrip has vertical crease. Significant foxing throughout text. A couple of signatures pulled (one of which is partially detached at bottom). Parsons, born in Massachusetts and a graduate of Middlebury College and Andover Theological Seminary, was accepted as a missionary in 1817 by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He spent raising money for the...
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€354.22
Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors during an Eighteen Years' Residence in East Africa; Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado
by Krapf, Johann Ludwig
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis (folding map), xl, 464p. Original cloth. 21cm. Backstrip somewhat faded (lettering faint) and is frayed at ends. Corners rubbed. Joints neatly reinforced with later linen tape. Bookplate (Burke Casari).
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€212.54
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by Bennett, C[ephus?] and F[rancis?] Mason, 1799-1874
n.p.: n.p;, 1843. Paperback. Good. 12p. Disbound. 18 cm. Ink spots on front and back pages. Vertical crease. Outer pages inkspotted. No separate title-page or wrapper. Signed in type at end: F. Mason and C. Bennett [at] Tavoy, December, 1843. Tavoy (now Dawei), a port city in Myanmar, lies along the northern side of the Dawei River estuary and is the capital of the Tanintharyi Region. Online information suggests that C. Bennett, was Cephus Bennett who, perhaps beginning later than 1843, was the printer...
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€118.08
Twenty-Eight Years in Negro Missions
by Luecke, Jessie Rayne
Livermore, Iowa, 1953. [Presumed first and only contemporary printing]. Paperback. Very Good. several small black & white photos (we counted 22), 85p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Some cover browning. Her husband accepted a teaching job at Luther College, a private school for African Americans in New Orleans, in 1924. The school closed the next year and Luecke accepted a call at Mt. Zion Church in New Orleans where they labored for about 25 years in some capacity before spending a short time in...
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€70.84
Missionary without pretending
by Anne J. Townsend
Very good condition softcover published in Great Britain in 1979, so hard to find in U. S. without paying a large shipping cost. Not ex-library. From a non-smoking home. No writing other than inscription first inside page. No creases or tears.
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€7.51
Handwritten letter addressed to Mrs. Nathan S. Bronson of New Haven from Olds, doing missionary work in Okayama, Japan
by Olds, Genevieve D. Olds, 1874-1939 (Mrs. C. Burnell Olds on the letterhead)
Very Good. 15 page letter on note-sized paper from Mrs. C. Burnell Olds in Okayama, Japan dated Oct, 27, 1925. Envelope present but postmark and stamp portion gone. Olds reports that she had visited the True Beauty Girls School right near the hills and quite a distance from town in the summer and spoke to the girls about Bronson and her interest in the school. She gave the school a photo of Bronson and the school had enlarged and framed the picture to hang it, perhaps in their assembly hall to honor...
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€165.30
The Negro in America and the Ideal American Republic
by Morgan, T. J
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. 203p. Original red cloth. 19 cm, Modest cover scuffing and soiling. Cover lettered dulled. The white author, who had served as an officer in segregated regiments of African Americans in the Union Army during the Civil War and whose grandfather had been a slave owner, says in the Prefatory Note that he has served for 5 years as the executive officer of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society which was involved in...
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€141.69
The Voice of Jubilee: A Narrative of the Baptist Mission, Jamaica, from Its Commencement; with Biographical Notices of Its Fathers and Founders
by Clark, John [and] W. Dendy [and] J. M. Phillippo
London: John Snow, 1865. [Rare 19th century edition]. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 359p. plus (32)p. publisher's advertisements at end. Original green cloth which had been rebacked (with portion of original backstrip mounted). 20cm. Cover scuffed and is moderately worn.
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€188.92
Northern Frontiers
by Flynn, Frank [with Keith Willey]
Sydney: F.P. Leonard. No Date[Circa 1969]. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 210 pages. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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€9.31
Report of the First Lutheran Conference on Mission among Israel
by Lutheran Conference on Mission among Israel
Chicago: Chicago Local Committee on Mission among Israel, 1901. Paperback. Very Good. 93. Softcover in roiginal wrapper. 24 cm. Moderate cover soil and minor chipping. Age-toned. Edited by E. N. Heimann. "With brotherly greeting from the editor" written in ink across top of front cover. An attempt to convert Jews to Christianity.
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€118.08
Presbyterian Missions and Cultural Interaction in the Far Southwest, 1850-1950 (Presbyterian Historical Society Publications, No 31)
by Banker, Mark T
University of Illinois Press, 1992-10-01. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Solid copy with unmarked text. Spotting (foxing) on top of closed page edges and inside of jacket. Cover corners are square; light bumps to spine ends. Binding is tight and square. Jacket is glossy with light surface wear. Good reading copy for personal use. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost...
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€10.89
From the Barroom to the Pulpit and Mission Fields of Africa: An Autobiography
by Weiss, Fred
Shenandoah, Iowa: Fred Weiss, 1912. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. photos, 415p. Original magenta cloth. 18cm. Backstrip unevenly faded. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate (Friends Community Library, Unadilla, N.Y.) Name plate on endpaper. Grease spots on a few leaves. No jacket. Weiss and his wife served as missionaries in Natal, South Africa (1895-1898 described at pages 126-293) and later in Morocco (pp. 342-415).
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€42.51
Ten Years on the Euphrates; or, Primitive Missionary Policy Illustrated
by Wheeler, Crosby Howard
Boston: American Tract Society, 1868. Hardcover. Good. 2 folding maps (including frontis), illustrations, xx, [15]-330p. Original green cloth. 17 cm. Sound copy. "551" inked in white on backstrip. Spine sloped. Browning and glue remnants on endpapers. Account by a missionary sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Harput in eastern Turkey.
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€33.06
The Place of Jesus in the Religion of Mohammed
by Short, Evan S
[London?]: The Fellowship of Faith for the Moslems, 1916. Very Good. 7p. Softcover. No separate wrapper. 19 cm. Extensive light foxing on outer pages. Their Booklet No. 1. Short identified as North Africa Mission, Kairouan, Tunis.
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€70.84
They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola.
by WHITEHEAD, Margaret (editor)
Black boards with spine lettering gilt, octavo, pp. xi, 203. Black and white illustrations.
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€8.93
Father Woodward Of U.M.C.A
by Gertrude Ward
A memoir written by one of Father Woodward's co-workers whilst in Africa, Gertrude Ward. The book goes into little detail about Woodward's personal life, but instead greatly touches upon the work, progress and development that took place on the continent during his time there acting as a missionary. Contains four photographs of Woodward at various ages.
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€14.21
The Missionary's Daughter A Memoir of Lucy Goodale Thurston, of the Sandwich Islands
by Thurston, Lucy Goodale
New York: American Tract Society, 1842. Hardcover. Good. 219p. plus 3p. publisher's advertisements. Original blindstamped red cloth. 16cm. Backstrip chipped at ends and reglued along front joint where it had been partially detached. Front hinge stiff (because of glue repair) Corners rubbed. 3 signatures slightly pulled. Front hinges cracked. Some foxing throughout text.
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€94.46
