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1928réf. 12860Various locations in Hawaii and Japan 1928. 12 leaves illustrated with 123 mounted sepia-toned photographs many captioned in the image area occasional manuscript captions on the album leaves. Oblong folio. Contemporary pictorial cloth illustrated with various Japanese motifs string tied. Minor wear to cloth. Internally clean. Very good. An attractive and informative vernacular photograph album memorializing the experiences of Protestant missionaries in the Pacific. Protestant missionaries came to Hawaii starting in the 1820s and eventually became quite socially and politically influential. The first Protestant missionaries arrived in Japan in the mid-1840s. They were relegated to treaty ports and prohibited from proselytizing but once these restrictions were lifted they were fairly successful with 300 churches and 34000 converts by 1889. Their main avenue was education and by the 1920s they were well established in this sector. The present album of photographs were taken by an American missionary in Hawaii and Japan in 1927 and 1928. It is not entirely clear whether the photographer did any missionary work in Hawaii or if it was just a stop on the way to Japan; the photos from Hawaii show Honolulu harbor from the deck of the President Madison the "Club House" and Diamond Head. The photographs from Japan are more clearly missionary. The photographer was involved in teaching in Kyoto; captions include "Kami Kyoku Bishamon Cho" listed as a theological school in the 1928 Japan Mission Year Book "Japanese Language School" "The Faculty" "Nihongo Faculty" and "St Agnes Ena -- Music." There are two St. Agneses in the Year Book both middle schools one in Tokyo and one in Kyoto. Two photos of an older Japanese man in a clerical collar captioned "Mr Hayakawa" suggest this is the St. Agnes in Kyoto as Mr. K. Hayakawa is listed as the head of that school. Other individuals listed in the Year Book include Sally Rembert Thora Johnson and "Maxine" who is probably Maxine Schannep with the ABCFM. Generally the school shots are exteriors of buildings and people posing outside of them; there are also shots of Christmas trees at St. Agnes the students of "Helen’s Kindergarten" in Koriyama girls in school uniform with deer at Nara Park and several of the nurse's home at St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo. Other photos show life around Kyoto and other cities including Nikko and Fukui. Most of the men are in Western dress while the women and children wear kimono. Two photos of Buddhist monks included in the album were taken by Japanese photographer Kurokawa Suizan; these show a KomusÅ in a tengai hat playing the flute and a kasa-hatted monk on the steps of a building. Finally some uncaptioned shots show a procession taking place in front of an audience. Some in the procession carry flags a few are on horseback and a few carry plants on their heads and part of the procession carries a litter. Overall the album documents both religious education and everyday life in late 1920s Japan; of particular interest to historians of Protestant missionaries. unknown
1928réf. 12860Various locations in Hawaii and Japan 1928. 12 leaves illustrated with 123 mounted sepia-toned photographs many captioned in the image area occasional manuscript captions on the album leaves. Oblong folio. Contemporary pictorial cloth illustrated with various Japanese motifs string tied. Minor wear to cloth. Internally clean. Very good. An attractive and informative vernacular photograph album memorializing the experiences of Protestant missionaries in the Pacific. Protestant missionaries came to Hawaii starting in the 1820s and eventually became quite socially and politically influential. The first Protestant missionaries arrived in Japan in the mid-1840s. They were relegated to treaty ports and prohibited from proselytizing but once these restrictions were lifted they were fairly successful with 300 churches and 34000 converts by 1889. Their main avenue was education and by the 1920s they were well established in this sector. The present album of photographs were taken by an American missionary in Hawaii and Japan in 1927 and 1928. It is not entirely clear whether the photographer did any missionary work in Hawaii or if it was just a stop on the way to Japan; the photos from Hawaii show Honolulu harbor from the deck of the President Madison the "Club House" and Diamond Head. The photographs from Japan are more clearly missionary. The photographer was involved in teaching in Kyoto; captions include "Kami Kyoku Bishamon Cho" listed as a theological school in the 1928 Japan Mission Year Book "Japanese Language School" "The Faculty" "Nihongo Faculty" and "St Agnes Ena -- Music." There are two St. Agneses in the Year Book both middle schools one in Tokyo and one in Kyoto. Two photos of an older Japanese man in a clerical collar captioned "Mr Hayakawa" suggest this is the St. Agnes in Kyoto as Mr. K. Hayakawa is listed as the head of that school. Other individuals listed in the Year Book include Sally Rembert Thora Johnson and "Maxine" who is probably Maxine Schannep with the ABCFM. Generally the school shots are exteriors of buildings and people posing outside of them; there are also shots of Christmas trees at St. Agnes the students of "Helen’s Kindergarten" in Koriyama girls in school uniform with deer at Nara Park and several of the nurse's home at St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo. Other photos show life around Kyoto and other cities including Nikko and Fukui. Most of the men are in Western dress while the women and children wear kimono. Two photos of Buddhist monks included in the album were taken by Japanese photographer Kurokawa Suizan; these show a KomusÅ in a tengai hat playing the flute and a kasa-hatted monk on the steps of a building. Finally some uncaptioned shots show a procession taking place in front of an audience. Some in the procession carry flags a few are on horseback and a few carry plants on their heads and part of the procession carries a litter. Overall the album documents both religious education and everyday life in late 1920s Japan; of particular interest to historians of Protestant missionaries. unknown books
1929réf. 4780Oxford Oh 1929. Good plus. 169pp. Contemporary notebook bound in limp black cloth sewn. Covers chipped and creased with a closed vertical tear spine perished but well-sewn and holding strong. Occasional toning to text. An informative manuscript minutes book recording monthly meeting activities written by a series of recording secretaries for the Young Ladies Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church of Oxford Ohio over the course of more than fifteen years in the early-20th century. Later in the volume the group begins referring to itself as the Young Women's Missionary Society. The meeting notes range from a few lines to more than one page with most consisting of two-thirds of a page or more. The notes generally open with the month and date followed by an opening statement identifying the location of the meeting and sometimes how many members attended that month's meeting. During the meetings the women engage in scripture lessons the singing of religious songs report on club finances and are often treated to a paper or presentation on a variety of subjects related to missionary work. The subjects of the papers include China works of the Mission Press African Americans Mexico Mormonism South America children's issues immigration mission work in Alaska home missions and a variety of other subjects with numerous presentations focusing on Native Americans. A typical entry from the second meeting recorded here on August 11 1913 reads as follows: "The July meeting of the Y.L.M.S. was held at the Parsonage. As this was the month for the picnic the Ladies Missionary Society was invited to be us. Miss Elizabeth Wallace was the devotional leader and had a very interesting program which consisted of short poems the scripture lesson memory verses from the Bible and some Bible songs. Miss Beaton read a splendid paper on 'An Educational Revolution in China.' The carpet for the church was discussed after which we adjourned and enjoyed a fine picnic supper on the lawn. Ruth Stephenson Sect." In addition to the monthly entries the minutes book also contains occasional lists of members providing additional valuable information on the composition of the society and occasional financial statements or detailed treasurer's reports enumerating informative financial data on the functioning of the organization. The location of the group was ferreted out of clues in the text including a handful of references to activities in Cincinnati a note about the membership deciding at one point to gather "old papers and magazines for the Champion Coated Paper Company" whose western paper mill was located in Hamilton Ohio and most pointedly there is one financial report headed "Report of the Treasurer of Y.W.M.S. of the U.P. Church of Oxford O. for year ending Mar 31 1919." Information is scant on this local Ohio women's organization devoted to missionary work though the present work should certainly illuminate their activities both before and well after the First World War. unknown
1929réf. 4780Oxford Oh 1929. Good plus. 169pp. Contemporary notebook bound in limp black cloth sewn. Covers chipped and creased with a closed vertical tear spine perished but well-sewn and holding strong. Occasional toning to text. An informative manuscript minutes book recording monthly meeting activities written by a series of recording secretaries for the Young Ladies Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church of Oxford Ohio over the course of more than fifteen years in the early-20th century. Later in the volume the group begins referring to itself as the Young Women's Missionary Society. The meeting notes range from a few lines to more than one page with most consisting of two-thirds of a page or more. The notes generally open with the month and date followed by an opening statement identifying the location of the meeting and sometimes how many members attended that month's meeting. During the meetings the women engage in scripture lessons the singing of religious songs report on club finances and are often treated to a paper or presentation on a variety of subjects related to missionary work. The subjects of the papers include China works of the Mission Press African Americans Mexico Mormonism South America children's issues immigration mission work in Alaska home missions and a variety of other subjects with numerous presentations focusing on Native Americans. A typical entry from the second meeting recorded here on August 11 1913 reads as follows: "The July meeting of the Y.L.M.S. was held at the Parsonage. As this was the month for the picnic the Ladies Missionary Society was invited to be us. Miss Elizabeth Wallace was the devotional leader and had a very interesting program which consisted of short poems the scripture lesson memory verses from the Bible and some Bible songs. Miss Beaton read a splendid paper on 'An Educational Revolution in China.' The carpet for the church was discussed after which we adjourned and enjoyed a fine picnic supper on the lawn. Ruth Stephenson Sect." In addition to the monthly entries the minutes book also contains occasional lists of members providing additional valuable information on the composition of the society and occasional financial statements or detailed treasurer's reports enumerating informative financial data on the functioning of the organization. The location of the group was ferreted out of clues in the text including a handful of references to activities in Cincinnati a note about the membership deciding at one point to gather "old papers and magazines for the Champion Coated Paper Company" whose western paper mill was located in Hamilton Ohio and most pointedly there is one financial report headed "Report of the Treasurer of Y.W.M.S. of the U.P. Church of Oxford O. for year ending Mar 31 1919." Information is scant on this local Ohio women's organization devoted to missionary work though the present work should certainly illuminate their activities both before and well after the First World War. unknown books
réf. 215047Milan: P. Luigi Michieli. Hardcover. Fair. Map plates 147-263 continuously paginated with volume one not present plus index. A large oblong hardcover book with a leather spine and decorated brick-red cloth boards. Ex-library with call number on spine and a few stamps on edges and endpapers. POOR CONDITION; OFFERED AS-IS. Spine is heavily scuffed and the binding is completely cracked with all plates detached but present. Plates 212-213 have small chips to edge. Plates have tanned edges but minimal edgewear overall. Otherwise the plates are clean and the images unmarred. A damaged copy in need of rebinding but still an excellent time capsule of the late 19th-century regions it depicts. Title in English is ALBUM OF THE MISSION OF FRANCISCANS IN HOLY LAND Second Book - Syria Cyprus Egypt. Volume 2 of 2 only. An album of black and white plates depicting Franciscan missionary activity in the Eastern Mediterranean. Each full-page plate has a decorative gilt border and includes descriptive captions in Latin Italian French English and German. Measures approximately 12.75"x 9.5." No copyright date given; book is circa 1890. P. Luigi Michieli hardcover
1896Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary handsome petrol green quarter leather, five raised bands to spine with decorative gilt edges, marbled boards. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters. 118 p., 14 unnumbered woodcut plates (one is full of two pages). Hegira: 1314 = Gregorian: 1896. Extremely rare first and illustrated edition of the journey of civil servant Ali Bey, who went from Istanbul to Baghdad and to India through his duty in Düyûn-u Umûmiye [i.e. Ottoman Public Debt Administration] covering the years 1885-1888, vividly describing Baghdad, Musul; and India. In 1884 Ali Bey started his journey as an ex-governor of Trabzon city and a new OPDA officer from Constantinople (Istanbul), and he arrived in Baghdad through Lesbos, Ayvalik, Smyrna (Izmir), Mersin, and Alexandretta (Iskenderun). On their way to Baghdad, they cross the Tigris River on rafts that local people call "Kelek". His descriptions of Baghdad city are very important and first-hand accounts of the region including the details of the walls of the city, hospitals, health organizations, industry, a transportation company on the river, a new settlement near the center of Kadhimiya with a tram line to through the city built. Ali Bey landed on the Indian continent in Karachi (today's Pakistan). He made a detailed description of the big cities that were the British Colony and states that he was influenced by these cities as a Reform period Turkish intellectual. He also describes Islamic India, Parsi traditions, costumes and funerals, Portuguese culture in India, Victoria Garden Zoo, silk weaving factories founded by David Sossoon, who came from Baghdad, architecture, music, theater, etc. List of ills.: General view from Ayvalik, the port of Smyrna (Izmir), the port of Mersin, two panoramas of Diyarbakir and Aleppo cities, the bridge of Musul, "Keleks" on the Tigris, a local woman of Aleppo, Famous water mill of Aleppo, Fortress of Aleppo, Eagles of Parsi people in Bombay, A Parsi family from Bombay, Arcadia ship in Bombay, Straight of Hormuz in Basra. Ali Bey was a playwright originally. He learned French in private lessons and firstly he worked at the Babiâli (The Sublime Port) Translation Office as a clerk, then he became a member of the Health Council and the first secretary of the Directorate of Quarantine. He went to Eastern Anatolia, Iraq, and Japan as an inspector of public debts (1855-88). After his duty as the Governor of Trabzon (1890-93) he became the director of the Office of Public Debts (1890-93), which would last until the end of his life. It is for this reason that he was called Direktör Ali Bey. His first work was published in Diyojen (1869-72), the first humorous review, published by Teodor Kasap. Ali Bey, who was one of the regular writers of this review, wrote plays for the Gedik Pasa Theater, which was founded by the Armenian Güllü Agop and his friends, and wrote scripts adapted from French plays. He gave Turkish diction lessons to the Armenian actors and participated in theater activities. His plays were performed under the authorship 'A Person' to hide his official identity. He explained the meanings of words satirically in his dictionary Lehçetü'l Hakayik (Language of Realities) which he wrote in 1897 and was the first work of its field; the faults of the 19th-century Ottoman Empire were also criticized in this dictionary. Özege 17900.; TBTK 3068.; OCLC 218189547 (One copy in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), 602878049 (one copy in Universitatbibliothek), 879555766 (Four copies), 56944884.
1955réf. 6091Various locations in Costa Rica and Panama 1955. Very good. Three photograph albums: 10 leaves illustrated with thirty photographs most with manuscript annotations in white pencil; 22 leaves illustrated with seventy-one photographs most with manuscript annotations; 20 leaves illustrated with forty-nine photographs each with manuscript annotation. Each album oblong octavo in different colored cloth bindings string tied. Minor overall wear with a handful of loose photographs. A collection of three annotated vernacular photograph albums documenting the activities of Methodist missionaries in Costa Rica and Panama in the mid-20th century. The photographs picture the subjects traveling in the two countries scenes inside and outside the classroom views of native peoples and dwellings a mission in Costa Rica and the associated language school headed by Denton Powell Royster who is pictured here and identified as "Pastor Royster". The images capture missionaries on the road at roadside picnics enjoying leisure time at meetings and dinner celebrations and engaging in similar activities. Many of the subjects are named providing excellent opportunities for deeper study; individuals here include Stan Sheldon Jean Spahr or Spahn Virginia Miller Virginia Forkell Naomi Calkine Lois Henry Lorraine Roth Betty Brown Gordon and Marilyn Marken Norm Piersma Wally DeSmet John Gilmore and others. The album was compiled by a female missionary likely a member of the Benz family as one image is captioned "Peggy Daddy Mom and Steve Benz." Another photograph of a young woman is captioned "Me enroute to the falls at Catalina." She also identifies herself in other photos including one of her swimming at Ojo de Agua but never seems to indicate her name. She appears to have been an instructor at the language school; one image shows her and a few others in "Phonetics" class and another pictures her with other teachers of the grammar class. A couple of the image indicate some of the missionaries are part of a "Honduran prayer meeting." Other scenes of interest feature a group photograph of the language school "scenes from a woodworking shop on our paseo to the Roysters" activities in a coffee processing plant and views of the Irazu volcano among others. The indigenous or local peoples pictured here include the Baltadano family of the Central American Church a woman named Angela de Varga an oxcart operator in Costa Rica a young woman identified as "Maria una buena empleada" a man named Don Antonio and a few others. Identified South American locations include Cartago Church "the ruins of the oldest church in Costa Rica" Gatun Locks and other scenes in the Panama Canal Roble Alto the countryside near Cartago and the interior of a church in Cartago. A diverse collection of images memorializing American missionary activities in South American in the Eisenhower years with excellent potential for further study. unknown
1955réf. 6091Various locations in Costa Rica and Panama 1955. Very good. Three photograph albums: 10 leaves illustrated with thirty photographs most with manuscript annotations in white pencil; 22 leaves illustrated with seventy-one photographs most with manuscript annotations; 20 leaves illustrated with forty-nine photographs each with manuscript annotation. Each album oblong octavo in different colored cloth bindings string tied. Minor overall wear with a handful of loose photographs. A collection of three annotated vernacular photograph albums documenting the activities of Methodist missionaries in Costa Rica and Panama in the mid-20th century. The photographs picture the subjects traveling in the two countries scenes inside and outside the classroom views of native peoples and dwellings a mission in Costa Rica and the associated language school headed by Denton Powell Royster who is pictured here and identified as "Pastor Royster". The images capture missionaries on the road at roadside picnics enjoying leisure time at meetings and dinner celebrations and engaging in similar activities. Many of the subjects are named providing excellent opportunities for deeper study; individuals here include Stan Sheldon Jean Spahr or Spahn Virginia Miller Virginia Forkell Naomi Calkine Lois Henry Lorraine Roth Betty Brown Gordon and Marilyn Marken Norm Piersma Wally DeSmet John Gilmore and others. The album was compiled by a female missionary likely a member of the Benz family as one image is captioned "Peggy Daddy Mom and Steve Benz." Another photograph of a young woman is captioned "Me enroute to the falls at Catalina." She also identifies herself in other photos including one of her swimming at Ojo de Agua but never seems to indicate her name. She appears to have been an instructor at the language school; one image shows her and a few others in "Phonetics" class and another pictures her with other teachers of the grammar class. A couple of the image indicate some of the missionaries are part of a "Honduran prayer meeting." Other scenes of interest feature a group photograph of the language school "scenes from a woodworking shop on our paseo to the Roysters" activities in a coffee processing plant and views of the Irazu volcano among others. The indigenous or local peoples pictured here include the Baltadano family of the Central American Church a woman named Angela de Varga an oxcart operator in Costa Rica a young woman identified as "Maria una buena empleada" a man named Don Antonio and a few others. Identified South American locations include Cartago Church "the ruins of the oldest church in Costa Rica" Gatun Locks and other scenes in the Panama Canal Roble Alto the countryside near Cartago and the interior of a church in Cartago. A diverse collection of images memorializing American missionary activities in South American in the Eisenhower years with excellent potential for further study. unknown books
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this fascinating document concerning Eastern and Western beliefs, and the activities of Danish missionaries on the Southeast Coast of India during the early 18th century. 8, xxii, 2, 352 pp, COMPLETE WITH THE HALF-TITLE, WHICH IS OFTEN MISSING. 8vo. Beautifully bound in quarter calf and marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with embossed fleurons, leather title-piece. Minor traces of old, faint staining in the lower margins of a few leaves, else a VERY FRESH COPY, COMPLETE AND ATTRACTIVELY BOUND. Rare.
1923réf. 5584Various locations in Guatemala and Mexico 1923. Very good. 145 real photo postcards photographs and printed pictorial postcards thirty-eight with manuscript notes on verso. Minor wear overall. A wonderful collection of images featuring the people and places involved with the educational missionary work of Lula Maud Jackson later Tolosa of Birmingham Michigan. Jackson was a Baptist missionary teacher at schools in El Salvador Cuba Mexico and Guatemala before returning to Michigan in the early-1920s. Not long after her return Lula married an El Salvadorian minister named Ramon Alberto Tolosa in Michigan on June 26 1923; apparently Tolosa moved to Michigan to be with Lula and thereafter established the First Mexican Baptist Church in Saginaw where he remained as pastor until his retirement in 1975. The present collection of photographs feature numerous people and places Jackson knew during her time in Latin America. The collection contains a few photographs that appear to include Jackson but the great majority show various native settings and subjects including the children she was teaching pictured in class group shots. Most are not captioned but many of these images are dated in 1921. The images feature students at play fruit vendors carrying large baskets churches and other buildings and more. Almost forty of the images however which are mostly portrait postcards or photographs include inscriptions to Lula on the verso from the numerous named subjects. All of the captions are written in Spanish. Seventeen of these identify various subjects in Mexico by name including multiple members of the same family in one case. One postcard is covered completely on the verso with the musical notation and lyrics of a song called "Ven a El pecador!" Two of these postcards were actually postmarked to Lula in Cuba while she was there in 1916 and 1919. Eighteen of these annotated real photo postcards were sent to Lula by her soon-to-be husband Ramon Tolosa all but one in either May or early June 1923 before the couple married later in June of that year. At the time Ramon was working in Tampico Mexico from where he sent all of these postcards. The postcards are not postmarked indicating Ramon may have sent them inside other letters; plus the captions contain straightforward descriptions of the subjects and settings of the postcards and not the personal correspondence that might be expected from two people about to be married. All in all a diverse and personal collection of images of Mexico kept by a missionary teacher from Michigan to memorialize her earlier work there offering several avenues for further research. unknown
1923réf. 5584Various locations in Guatemala and Mexico 1923. Very good. 145 real photo postcards photographs and printed pictorial postcards thirty-eight with manuscript notes on verso. Minor wear overall. A wonderful collection of images featuring the people and places involved with the educational missionary work of Lula Maud Jackson later Tolosa of Birmingham Michigan. Jackson was a Baptist missionary teacher at schools in El Salvador Cuba Mexico and Guatemala before returning to Michigan in the early-1920s. Not long after her return Lula married an El Salvadorian minister named Ramon Alberto Tolosa in Michigan on June 26 1923; apparently Tolosa moved to Michigan to be with Lula and thereafter established the First Mexican Baptist Church in Saginaw where he remained as pastor until his retirement in 1975. The present collection of photographs feature numerous people and places Jackson knew during her time in Latin America. The collection contains a few photographs that appear to include Jackson but the great majority show various native settings and subjects including the children she was teaching pictured in class group shots. Most are not captioned but many of these images are dated in 1921. The images feature students at play fruit vendors carrying large baskets churches and other buildings and more. Almost forty of the images however which are mostly portrait postcards or photographs include inscriptions to Lula on the verso from the numerous named subjects. All of the captions are written in Spanish. Seventeen of these identify various subjects in Mexico by name including multiple members of the same family in one case. One postcard is covered completely on the verso with the musical notation and lyrics of a song called "Ven a El pecador!" Two of these postcards were actually postmarked to Lula in Cuba while she was there in 1916 and 1919. Eighteen of these annotated real photo postcards were sent to Lula by her soon-to-be husband Ramon Tolosa all but one in either May or early June 1923 before the couple married later in June of that year. At the time Ramon was working in Tampico Mexico from where he sent all of these postcards. The postcards are not postmarked indicating Ramon may have sent them inside other letters; plus the captions contain straightforward descriptions of the subjects and settings of the postcards and not the personal correspondence that might be expected from two people about to be married. All in all a diverse and personal collection of images of Mexico kept by a missionary teacher from Michigan to memorialize her earlier work there offering several avenues for further research. unknown books
réf. PD17Oblong Quarto ca. 20 x 26.5 cm or 7 ¾ x 10 in. 17 card stock leaves. 34 gelatin silver photographs mounted in windows ca. 16 x 11.5 cm 6 ¼ x 4 ½ in. Three photographs with pencil captions. Period straight grain Morocco with cloth boards expertly re-backed; gilt-tooled ornamental borders on both boards and spine gilt-lettered title “Cawnpore” on front board; all edges gilt. Mounts with minor losses or tears not affecting images slightly age-toned; a few photos mildly faded or with minor silver mirroring but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Historically interesting collection of early original photographs of Christian missionary schools buildings teachers and students hospitals and the Christ Church in Cawnpore modern-day Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India during the early 20th century. Although uncaptioned the photos most likely illustrate the activities of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts SPG in Cawnpore. These activities included running the Christ Church Christ Church College a high school an Anglo-vernacular school a school for Hindu girls a seminary a trade school orphanages and hospitals. Five photos show the Christ Church built in 1840 severely damaged during the Indian Mutiny and restored with three views of the exterior and two views of the interior and altar. It was handed over to the SPG in 1862 and is now part of the Diocese of Agra of the Church of North India. Several other photos show buildings likely part of the Christ Church College campus and portraits of staff and teachers including those of Indian descent. Christ Church College opened in 1892 and began offering BA LLB and MA programs in 1896 1898 and 1900 respectively. It is currently one of the oldest universities in Kanpur. One photo shows the Women’s Mission Association WMA Hospital also run by the SPG and four photos are of the Prince of Wales Hospital likely part of the SPG’s activities as well. The Prince of Wales Hospital is possibly the current site of Ursula Horsman Memorial Hospital in Kanpur. Other photos include three views of the Cawnpore Massacre 1857 Memorial; environs in Cawnpore a ghat a small chhatri/dome-shaped open pavilion etc.; and likely other activities conducted by the SPG such as the orphanage and girls’ school with group portraits of Indian children. Overall an interesting collection of historical and well-preserved photographs of Christian missionary activity in Cawnpore featuring Christ Church College in the early 20th century. For more on the SPG see also: Report of the Year 1900 of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1901. link. Pascoe C.F. Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G.: A Historical Account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701-1900. Vol 2. London 1901. link. hardcover
1777réf. PHO-990Paris , Gide , 1797 , 3 volumes (1,2,3) in-4° (260x200) relié plein basane époque , dos lisse orné avec tomaison et pièce de titre . Tome 1 (1797) , chez Gay & Gide , xvi-500pp , illustré de 9 planches sur papier bleuté , ex-libris de la maison de Maistre avec sa devise , Tome 2 (1777), chez Nyon l’ainé, viii-278pp 234pp , charnière légèrement fendue , coin usé , Tome 3 (1778) chez Nyon l’ainé , vi-504pp , illustré de 6 portraits ,petits défauts , tome 2 et 3 , ex-libris de Jean-François-Charles Laval de La Loubrerie .
1907243 pages. Tissue-protected frontis photo portrait of author. Attractively decorated maroon cloth-covered front board. All seventeen black and white plates present. "An autobiographical account of the author's first twelve years (from 1862 to September 1873) as a Methodist missionary among the Cowichan and Nanaimo Indians." - Lowther. Average wear. Prior owner's name in light pencil upon front free endpaper. Faint moisture marks to fore-edge of first twenty-five pages. Hinges starting. Issued without dust jacket. LOWTHER 1556, RICKS p.75, AMTMANN 3499, SMITH 2134, WALLACE p.52, MATTHEWS 295, TOD & CORDINGLEY p.85. Book
1753réf. PHO-2353Paris, Broca, 1753, 4 volumes in-12 (16x9,5cm), 7pp.-370pp.-2ff./ titre-356pp.-4ff./6ff.-310pp.-3ff./titre-271pp.-2ff., basane postérieure (19ème ), dos à nerfs orné avec pièce de titre rouge et tomaison verte, ex-libris manuscrit répété, étiquette de libraire (Beauchemin & Valois, Montréal). Frottements et épidermures, 1 planche détachée (t1), 1 feuillet de table monté à l’envers (t4), défaut au titre (t1) Illustré de 25 (28) cartes et gravures, dont dépliantes, manque les 2 planches de musique et la carte de l’Hudson.
1939réf. 12870Various locations mostly in India 1939. Two contemporary photograph albums bound in matching black cloth. Album 1: 47 leaves illustrated with 347 mounted photographs including a handful of real photo postcards profusely captioned in white pencil on album leaves. Album 2: 30 leaves illustrated with 285 photographs including some real photo postcards and commercial images with only a few manuscript captions. Oblong quarto. A unique pictorial record of American Christian missionary service in India during the years of the Great Depression detailing the life and work of Seventh Day Adventists Edward and Edna Mabel Pohlman. Edward Pohlman 1906-1970 and Edna Mabel 1906-1997 married in 1928 and served in the Northern India Union NIU Section which was part of the Southern Asia Division from 1929 to 1946. While in India it appears that the Pohlman family lived at least in Mussoorie Roorkee and Poona during which time they had one son Edward Wendell born in Punjab in 1933. The father Edward received an M.A. and PhD from Ohio State University. The couple likely lived in Roorkee early on where Pohlman likely taught at Roorkee Adventist College as there are images of the faculty at Roorkee their bungalow and so forth. They may also have been associated with the Vincent Hill School in Mussoorie of which there are several images. He definitely taught theology at Spicer Missionary College Now Spicer Adventist University in Poona Pune and became president of Spicer in 1939 a position he held until 1946. Spicer College was the church’s flagship educational institution in India. Pohlman also held SDA conference positions including educational and missionary volunteer secretary for the Southern Asia Division. The SAD NIU section focused on establishing mission schools doing medical work publishing and direct preaching aiming to spread the gospel this way. The organization worked to establish churches and develop indigenous leadership and self-supporting missions in communities across northern India. The albums only pertain to his time in India but following his time there Pohlman taught at the Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio then in 1958 was a Fulbright lecturer in sociology and anthropology at the University of Karachi and then served as executive director of the U. S. Educational Foundation in Pakistan. In 1960 he joined Queens College in Charlotte North Carolina where he taught and was head of the sociology and anthropology departments until his death. He was fluent in Urdu and Hindustani. The first few images in the first album document the Pohlman's trip from New York to India as a young married couple in 1929. They spent some time in England and the Holy Land before arriving in India. The first images from India show their first house in Mussoorie and the Vincent Hill School which was part of the SDA educational system. Other early India images feature Najababad including a dispensary a village meeting and their colleagues the Kimble's bungalow there plus an image of a building captioned "Northwest Union Headquarters of our work" in Lucknow. The next group of photos are of Roorkee in 1931 picturing another SDA school the Roorkee Adventist College the faculty a group of students a sewing class a Bible class and a dispensary. Numerous images include Edna and Edward as well as their colleagues the Steeves the Kimbles the Garners and others. One shows Edna and four young men and is captioned "my first English class." Several historic photographs relate to important SDA events meetings and facilities. One of the bigger photographs shows a very large group and is captioned "workers from India Burma & Ceylon at Poona SDA Council 1931." Another shows the Division Headquarters at Poona and a third shows attendees from the Northwest India Union that attended the Poona Council in 1931. Another group of images shows workers and students at the SDA Colporteur Institute a school that trained people to evangelize and pass out literature. Another shows 17 Abbott Road in Lucknow the location of the SAD Publishing House. There are also images of the Seventh Day Adventist Training School many uncaptioned images of SDA student and graduate groups and some of Edna or Edward with their students. Other photographs illustrate the missionaries' lives through their bungalows outings trips to Kashmir a large group of images Lahore and Delhi riding elephants celebrating Christmas and more. Other images show local people harvesting sugar cane bathing in the Ganges a pilgrim knee-walking a street sewing service Indian weddings a group in front of the Seventh Day Adventist Training School many uncaptioned images of SDA large and small student and/or graduate groups and more. The albums also provide images of the couple's missionary colleagues including several who traveled out to India with them and some who were especially notable. These include: John Milton Steeves 1905-1998 an important SDA missionary and educator who became a career diplomat serving as acting ambassador to Jakarta Indonesia deputy assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs 1959-62 and ambassador to Afghanistan 1966-69. The Steeves family lived in Western Washington between 1919 and 1927 where Steeves graduated from Walla Walla College an SAD-affiliated school and the University of Washington. Raleigh and Edna Garner from Nampa Idaho who served sixteen years in India then pastored in Idaho. Garner also graduated from Walla Walla College. Ray LeRoy R.L. Kimble 1890-1972 and his wife Jessie M. Estep Kimble. Kimble was a pastor and missionary who served in India from around 1915 to 1950 and was president of the Northern India Union Section from 1946 to 1950. His wife was principal of the North Agra Mission Girl's School from 1930 to 1932; earlier they ran a sanitarium at Bombay. After India's independence Kimble was part of a delegation in August 1947 that met with Nehru Gandhi and Jinnah to explain the role of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in India. Marion Hulda Belchambers 1886-1949 a pioneer teacher administrator and publishing house pioneer who became secretary and treasurer of the Northwest / Northern India Union in 1923. The two albums document important contributions made by the Pohlmans and their colleagues to education and healthcare in India and also provide visual documentation of important Seventh Day Adventist events and meetings and insights into the daily lives of missionaries of the period. unknown
1939réf. 12870Various locations mostly in India 1939. Two contemporary photograph albums bound in matching black cloth. Album 1: 47 leaves illustrated with 347 mounted photographs including a handful of real photo postcards profusely captioned in white pencil on album leaves. Album 2: 30 leaves illustrated with 285 photographs including some real photo postcards and commercial images with only a few manuscript captions. Oblong quarto. A unique pictorial record of American Christian missionary service in India during the years of the Great Depression detailing the life and work of Seventh Day Adventists Edward and Edna Mabel Pohlman. Edward Pohlman 1906-1970 and Edna Mabel 1906-1997 married in 1928 and served in the Northern India Union NIU Section which was part of the Southern Asia Division from 1929 to 1946. While in India it appears that the Pohlman family lived at least in Mussoorie Roorkee and Poona during which time they had one son Edward Wendell born in Punjab in 1933. The father Edward received an M.A. and PhD from Ohio State University. The couple likely lived in Roorkee early on where Pohlman likely taught at Roorkee Adventist College as there are images of the faculty at Roorkee their bungalow and so forth. They may also have been associated with the Vincent Hill School in Mussoorie of which there are several images. He definitely taught theology at Spicer Missionary College Now Spicer Adventist University in Poona Pune and became president of Spicer in 1939 a position he held until 1946. Spicer College was the church’s flagship educational institution in India. Pohlman also held SDA conference positions including educational and missionary volunteer secretary for the Southern Asia Division. The SAD NIU section focused on establishing mission schools doing medical work publishing and direct preaching aiming to spread the gospel this way. The organization worked to establish churches and develop indigenous leadership and self-supporting missions in communities across northern India. The albums only pertain to his time in India but following his time there Pohlman taught at the Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio then in 1958 was a Fulbright lecturer in sociology and anthropology at the University of Karachi and then served as executive director of the U. S. Educational Foundation in Pakistan. In 1960 he joined Queens College in Charlotte North Carolina where he taught and was head of the sociology and anthropology departments until his death. He was fluent in Urdu and Hindustani. The first few images in the first album document the Pohlman's trip from New York to India as a young married couple in 1929. They spent some time in England and the Holy Land before arriving in India. The first images from India show their first house in Mussoorie and the Vincent Hill School which was part of the SDA educational system. Other early India images feature Najababad including a dispensary a village meeting and their colleagues the Kimble's bungalow there plus an image of a building captioned "Northwest Union Headquarters of our work" in Lucknow. The next group of photos are of Roorkee in 1931 picturing another SDA school the Roorkee Adventist College the faculty a group of students a sewing class a Bible class and a dispensary. Numerous images include Edna and Edward as well as their colleagues the Steeves the Kimbles the Garners and others. One shows Edna and four young men and is captioned "my first English class." Several historic photographs relate to important SDA events meetings and facilities. One of the bigger photographs shows a very large group and is captioned "workers from India Burma & Ceylon at Poona SDA Council 1931." Another shows the Division Headquarters at Poona and a third shows attendees from the Northwest India Union that attended the Poona Council in 1931. Another group of images shows workers and students at the SDA Colporteur Institute a school that trained people to evangelize and pass out literature. Another shows 17 Abbott Road in Lucknow the location of the SAD Publishing House. There are also images of the Seventh Day Adventist Training School many uncaptioned images of SDA student and graduate groups and some of Edna or Edward with their students. Other photographs illustrate the missionaries' lives through their bungalows outings trips to Kashmir a large group of images Lahore and Delhi riding elephants celebrating Christmas and more. Other images show local people harvesting sugar cane bathing in the Ganges a pilgrim knee-walking a street sewing service Indian weddings a group in front of the Seventh Day Adventist Training School many uncaptioned images of SDA large and small student and/or graduate groups and more. The albums also provide images of the couple's missionary colleagues including several who traveled out to India with them and some who were especially notable. These include: John Milton Steeves 1905-1998 an important SDA missionary and educator who became a career diplomat serving as acting ambassador to Jakarta Indonesia deputy assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs 1959-62 and ambassador to Afghanistan 1966-69. The Steeves family lived in Western Washington between 1919 and 1927 where Steeves graduated from Walla Walla College an SAD-affiliated school and the University of Washington. Raleigh and Edna Garner from Nampa Idaho who served sixteen years in India then pastored in Idaho. Garner also graduated from Walla Walla College. Ray LeRoy R.L. Kimble 1890-1972 and his wife Jessie M. Estep Kimble. Kimble was a pastor and missionary who served in India from around 1915 to 1950 and was president of the Northern India Union Section from 1946 to 1950. His wife was principal of the North Agra Mission Girl's School from 1930 to 1932; earlier they ran a sanitarium at Bombay. After India's independence Kimble was part of a delegation in August 1947 that met with Nehru Gandhi and Jinnah to explain the role of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in India. Marion Hulda Belchambers 1886-1949 a pioneer teacher administrator and publishing house pioneer who became secretary and treasurer of the Northwest / Northern India Union in 1923. The two albums document important contributions made by the Pohlmans and their colleagues to education and healthcare in India and also provide visual documentation of important Seventh Day Adventist events and meetings and insights into the daily lives of missionaries of the period. unknown books
1875réf. 126715à Lyon - à Paris, chez M. P. Rusand, imprimeur-libraire, à la Librairie écclésiastique 1875 42 volumes. In-8 20,5 x 12,5 cm. Reliures de l’époque composites demi-basane aubergine, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés encadrés de petits fers à froid, environ 550 pp. par volume, table des matières en fin de chaque volume. Ex-libris Monteynard. Manque en pied de dos vol. 28. Intérieur frais. Ensemble en bon état.
1820réf. List3735Elliott Mission Choctaw Nation 1820. Four pages bifolium 10 x 8 inches. Stampless cover bearing the scarce "Choctaw Agency May 25" manuscript marking and "Via Philadelphia" routing notation described in the original philatelic history sale as possibly "one of the earliest if not the earliest cover known from Choctaw Agency while still in Mississippi. Some losses at folds and areas of old reinforcement though the remaining text is extensive throughout. An early missionary letter from the Choctaw Nation written by Minerva Washburn 1788-1852 one of the first women attached to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions' Choctaw mission efforts shortly after her arrival at Elliott Mission in what was then the Mississippi frontier. Carried under what appears to be one of the earliest recorded "Choctaw Agency" manuscript postal markings known the letter was sent to her parents Jonah and Sarah Washburn of Randolph Vermont in the spring of 1820. Minerva Washburn entered the service of the American Board in 1819 and arrived at Elliott Mission in January 1820. She was the sister of the missionary Cephas Washburn and would later marry missionary James Orr becoming associated with the establishment of Dwight Mission in the Cherokee Nation. The identification of Washburn as the author is confirmed both by surviving missionary records and by the partially obscured signature beneath old reinforcement at the conclusion of the present letter. Datelined simply "Elliot Choctaw Nation April 29" the letter describes realities of life at one of the earliest Protestant mission stations among the Choctaw. Written only months after her arrival the letter preserves a firsthand account of missionary settlement in Choctaw territory during the earliest phase of organized evangelical expansion into the Southeast. She writes: "For the first time I sit down to address you from this land of moral darkness. I often interrogate myself isn't it a pity that 2000 miles lie between us I am compelled to say that it is. I know your anxiety for me is great. But I have to record the goodness of the Lord to me since I left my father's house. I have been carried through all the dangers and trials attendant on so long a journey & was brought to this place in safety. My wants have all been supplied and I have been blessed with friends in a land of strangers. I suppose you have learnt the process of our journey from letters written by the brethren and sisters and text missing due to paper loss not repeat it. I can assure you my dear parents paper loss it was very grateful to us after so long journey through the wilderness to find a place of rest for such we call this establishment at present. paper loss from Vermont . was very good as I paper loss you from that place. But during the latter part of my journey and after my arrival here it was in a declining state owing I suppose to an entire change of diet and employment. It is now and has been for some time better than when at the South. Perhaps you would like to know my employment. I spend most of my time in sewing. We generally have enough to employ two hands. I usually ride or walk out morning and exercising for the preservation of health accompanied with some of the other sisters. Our walks are very pleasant. The woods are beautiful. Instead of . brush as at the north they are covered with grass & flowers. I wish you could have a view of Elliot. Its local situation far exceeded my expectation. And I found more of the necessaries and even the comforts of life than I expected. We have a plenty of cornbread milk and meat and some butter coffee and tea and sugar and some flour and a boat is expected in a few days that will supply us with a quantity of flour cheese and dried apples. My dear parents you often mentioned to me the dangers and fears that would attend me when crossing rivers forests and swamps. But I can tell you my fears were dissipated and I felt calm and composed. I must write a few words about the brethren and sisters. Br. Kingsbury our pastor has the superintendence of the mission. Br. Williams the care of the school which consists of 63 scholars. Br. Jesel the care of the farm. Br. Fisk is the blacksmith. paper loss the sisters they are paper loss Kingbury's absence paper loss Kingsbury he is a paper loss both a friend and a sister to me and wishes to be remembered particularly to you.Her little son is a paper loss promising child. O how I long to hear from you. paper loss you not write me soon That I may know how paper loss prosper in your temporal and spiritual . I think of you daily and hourly. And were it in my power how happy should I be to alleviate your paper loss and cares. But I hope you cast your cares on paper loss who will be better to you than children or friends. I have a few hours notice of an opportunity of sending letters and can write but little at this time. I shall paper loss my dear brothers and sisters in one or two paper loss. Give my love to all my dear relatives. I paper loss love to write to them all. O my dear parents paper loss you supplicate the throne of grace do not forget your affectionate daughter Minpaper loss". The Washburn family was closely connected to the early evangelical and missionary culture of New England during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Minerva Washburn's brother Cephas Washburn became one of the better-known missionaries associated with the American Board's work among Indigenous nations in the Southeast while Minerva herself entered missionary service in 1819 before later assisting alongside her husband James Orr in the development of Dwight Mission in the Cherokee Nation. The present letter belongs to this first generation of Protestant missionary efforts carried into the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations. Overall an early and highly personal missionary letter documenting evangelical expansion women's labor family separation and daily life in the Choctaw Nation during the opening years of organized American mission activity. unknown
1820réf. List3735Elliott Mission Choctaw Nation 1820. Four pages bifolium 10 x 8 inches. Stampless cover bearing the scarce "Choctaw Agency May 25" manuscript marking and "Via Philadelphia" routing notation described in the original philatelic history sale as possibly "one of the earliest if not the earliest cover known from Choctaw Agency while still in Mississippi. Some losses at folds and areas of old reinforcement though the remaining text is extensive throughout. An early missionary letter from the Choctaw Nation written by Minerva Washburn 1788-1852 one of the first women attached to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions' Choctaw mission efforts shortly after her arrival at Elliott Mission in what was then the Mississippi frontier. Carried under what appears to be one of the earliest recorded "Choctaw Agency" manuscript postal markings known the letter was sent to her parents Jonah and Sarah Washburn of Randolph Vermont in the spring of 1820. Minerva Washburn entered the service of the American Board in 1819 and arrived at Elliott Mission in January 1820. She was the sister of the missionary Cephas Washburn and would later marry missionary James Orr becoming associated with the establishment of Dwight Mission in the Cherokee Nation. The identification of Washburn as the author is confirmed both by surviving missionary records and by the partially obscured signature beneath old reinforcement at the conclusion of the present letter. Datelined simply "Elliot Choctaw Nation April 29" the letter describes realities of life at one of the earliest Protestant mission stations among the Choctaw. Written only months after her arrival the letter preserves a firsthand account of missionary settlement in Choctaw territory during the earliest phase of organized evangelical expansion into the Southeast. She writes: "For the first time I sit down to address you from this land of moral darkness. I often interrogate myself isn't it a pity that 2000 miles lie between us I am compelled to say that it is. I know your anxiety for me is great. But I have to record the goodness of the Lord to me since I left my father's house. I have been carried through all the dangers and trials attendant on so long a journey & was brought to this place in safety. My wants have all been supplied and I have been blessed with friends in a land of strangers. I suppose you have learnt the process of our journey from letters written by the brethren and sisters and text missing due to paper loss not repeat it. I can assure you my dear parents paper loss it was very grateful to us after so long journey through the wilderness to find a place of rest for such we call this establishment at present. paper loss from Vermont . was very good as I paper loss you from that place. But during the latter part of my journey and after my arrival here it was in a declining state owing I suppose to an entire change of diet and employment. It is now and has been for some time better than when at the South. Perhaps you would like to know my employment. I spend most of my time in sewing. We generally have enough to employ two hands. I usually ride or walk out morning and exercising for the preservation of health accompanied with some of the other sisters. Our walks are very pleasant. The woods are beautiful. Instead of . brush as at the north they are covered with grass & flowers. I wish you could have a view of Elliot. Its local situation far exceeded my expectation. And I found more of the necessaries and even the comforts of life than I expected. We have a plenty of cornbread milk and meat and some butter coffee and tea and sugar and some flour and a boat is expected in a few days that will supply us with a quantity of flour cheese and dried apples. My dear parents you often mentioned to me the dangers and fears that would attend me when crossing rivers forests and swamps. But I can tell you my fears were dissipated and I felt calm and composed. I must write a few words about the brethren and sisters. Br. Kingsbury our pastor has the superintendence of the mission. Br. Williams the care of the school which consists of 63 scholars. Br. Jesel the care of the farm. Br. Fisk is the blacksmith. paper loss the sisters they are paper loss Kingbury's absence paper loss Kingsbury he is a paper loss both a friend and a sister to me and wishes to be remembered particularly to you.Her little son is a paper loss promising child. O how I long to hear from you. paper loss you not write me soon That I may know how paper loss prosper in your temporal and spiritual . I think of you daily and hourly. And were it in my power how happy should I be to alleviate your paper loss and cares. But I hope you cast your cares on paper loss who will be better to you than children or friends. I have a few hours notice of an opportunity of sending letters and can write but little at this time. I shall paper loss my dear brothers and sisters in one or two paper loss. Give my love to all my dear relatives. I paper loss love to write to them all. O my dear parents paper loss you supplicate the throne of grace do not forget your affectionate daughter Minpaper loss". The Washburn family was closely connected to the early evangelical and missionary culture of New England during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Minerva Washburn's brother Cephas Washburn became one of the better-known missionaries associated with the American Board's work among Indigenous nations in the Southeast while Minerva herself entered missionary service in 1819 before later assisting alongside her husband James Orr in the development of Dwight Mission in the Cherokee Nation. The present letter belongs to this first generation of Protestant missionary efforts carried into the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations. Overall an early and highly personal missionary letter documenting evangelical expansion women's labor family separation and daily life in the Choctaw Nation during the opening years of organized American mission activity. unknown books
1919réf. 124931à Lyon, chez M. P. Rusand, imprimeur-libraire, Librairie ecclésiastique de Poussielgue-Rusand 1919 72 volumes. In-8 20,5 x 12,5 cm. Reliures de l’époque composites demi-basane aubergine, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés encadrés de petits fers à froid & à partir du vol. n 48, demi-basane vert-émeraude, dos lisses ornés de filets à froid, environ 550 pp. par volume, table en fin de chaque volume. Ex-libris marquis de Monteynard.
1704réf. PHO-2363Amsterdam, Chez Adriaan Braackman, 1704. In-12 (16x10cm) de 19ff.-604pp.-16ff.,Titre gravé en frontispice, 2 grandes cartes dépliantes et 6 planches dépliantes h.-t., Basane postérieure, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre rouge et auteur verte, tête dorée, rajout sur l’adresse de l’imprimeur à la seconde partie. Frottements et épidermures, traces de renforcements aux cartes.
1673In-8°, 16 cc, pp. 327, più errata, c. di tav. ripiegata (Situs provinciarum imperii Sinici), occhietto, vignetta calcografica sul frontespizio, illustrazioni calcografiche. Rilegatura in pergamena con nervi e titolo al dorso. ROUGEMONT (Franciscus de), b. a Maastricht il 2 aprile 1624, d. a Chang-chu (Cina) il 4 novembre 1676. Nelle scuole dei gesuiti a Bruxelles e Anversa fece i suoi studi inferiori con risultati brillanti e nel1641entrò nella Compagnia di Gesù. All'assedio di Kortrijk nel 1646 si distinse, sebbene non fosse ancora un sacerdote, per il suo zelo nella cura dei soldati feriti. Nel 1654 ricevette la consacrazione del sacerdote e, quando padre Martino Martini, procuratore della missione cinese in Europa, venne a cercare missionari per questo lavoro, riuscì a convincere i suoi genitori a richiedere quella missione a favore del figlio dal Generale dell'Ordine. L'anno seguente partì da Amsterdam per Lisbona con il gesuita di Amsterdam Ignazio Hartoghvelt. Dopo un ritardo a Coimbra, lasciarono Lisbona il 30 marzo 1656 e arrivarono il 6 novembre a Coa. A piedi, continuò il suo viaggio lungo la costa di Malabar, Visschersen Transvancore, e poi attraversò il Siam, dove il suo compagno Hartoghvelt morì a Yoethia nel 1658. Nello stesso anno, de Rougemont raggiunse Macao, e nel 1659, raggiunse la corte imperiale, in Cina. I cristiani da lui formati sono stati riconosciuti per il loro zelo e conoscenza della religione. In seguito a una violenta persecuzione dei cristiani durante la minore età dell'imperatore Kang-hi i missionari furono portati prigionieri a Pechino, poi esiliati nel Canton e imprigionati nella chiesa per 6 anni. R. capì che questa persecuzione aveva la sua ragione principale nella nazionalità straniera dei missionari. Per togliere quest'arma dalle mani degli avversari, pensò di addestrare un clero nativo e pensò che consentire una liturgia della chiesa in lingua cinese avrebbe promosso questo piano. Nel 1667 inviò un dettagliato memorandum al generale dell'ordine Oliva (stampato in Analecta Bollandiana XXXIII (1914), 279-93). Solo nel 1671, quando l'imperatore Kang-hi fu convinto dell'innocenza dei missionari, questi tornarono alle loro congregazioni cristiane. Il Rougemont ha continuò il lavoro interrotto per altri 5 anni. Durante un viaggio verso l'isola di Tsong-ming, si ammalò a Tsang-chu e morì tra le braccia di Padre Couplet. I suoi fedeli cristiani vennero per raccogliere il corpo del loro padre spirituale e dopo due giorni di cammino lo seppellirono solennemente sul Monte Voxan fuori dalla città di Changsho. Egli aveva usato il tempo della sua disoccupazione forzata per compilare la sua Historia Tartaro-Sinica nova (Lovanii 1673), in cui racconta ampiamente la persecuzione subita. Il Rougemont ha dato un ottimo contributo alla conoscenza della letteratura cinese. Con i padri Intorcetta, Herdrich e Couplet, intraprese l'importante lavoro: Confucius Sinarum philosophus, messo in stampa nel 1687 per ordine di Luigi XIV a Parigi. In-8 °, 16 cc, pp. 327, plus errata, folded table (Situs provinciarum imperii Sinici), half-title, woodcut on the title page. ROUGEMONT (Franciscus de), b. in Maastricht on April 2, 1624, d. in Changchu (China) on November 4, 1676. In Jesuit schools in Brussels and Antwerp he made his lower studies with brilliant results and in 1641 he entered the Society of Jesus. At the siege of Kortrijk in 1646 he distinguished himself, even if he was not yet a priest, for his zeal in caring for wounded soldiers. In 1654 he received the priest's consecration and, when Father Martino Martini, procurator of the Chinese mission in Europe, came to look for missionaries for this job, he managed to convince his parents to carry out that mission in favor of his son by the General of the Order. The following year he left Amsterdam for Lisbon with the Jesuit of Amsterdam Ignazio Hartoghvelt. After a delay in Coimbra, they left Lisbon on 30 March 1656 and arrived on 6 November in Coa. On foot, he continued his journey along the coast of Malabar, Visschersen Transvancore, and then he crossed Siam, where his companion Hartoghvelt died in Yoethia in 1658. In the same year, Rougemont reached Macau, and in 1659, he reached the imperial court , in China. The Christians he trained were listed for their zeal and knowledge of religion. Following a violent persecution of Christians during the minor age of Emperor Kang-hi, the missionaries were taken prisoner to Beijing, then exiled to the Canton and imprisoned in the church for 6 years. R. understood that this persecution had its main reason in the foreign nationality of the missionaries. To remove this weapon from the hands of opponents, he thought of training a native clergy and thought that allowing a Chinese-language church liturgy would promote this plan. In 1667 he sent a detailed memorandum to the general of the order Oliva (printed in Analecta Bollandiana XXXIII (1914), 279-93). Only in 1671, when Emperor Kang-hi was convinced of the innocence of the missionaries, did they return to their Christian congregations. Rougemont continued the interrupted work for another 5 years. During a trip to Tsong-ming Island, a Tsang-chu fell ill and died in the arms of Father Couplet. His faithful Christians came to collect the body of their spiritual father and after two days of walking they saw him solemnly on Mount Voxan outside the city of Changsho. He had used the time of his forced unemployment to compile his Historia Tartaro-Sinica nova (Lovanii 1673), in which he widely recounts the persecution he endured. Rougemont made an excellent contribution to the knowledge of Chinese literature. With his fathers Intorcetta, Herdrich and Couplet, he undertook the important work: Confucius Sinarum philosophus, printed in 1687 by order of Louis XIV in Paris.
1747réf. 3878FBRostock, Verlag Christian Koppe, 1747-1749. 4°. 26,5 x 21,5 cm. [1] Blatt, 58, 472 Seiten; [1] Blatt, 56, 748; 28 Seiten, [2] Blatt, 548; 56, 264, 552 Seiten, [16] Blatt. Ganzlederbände der Zeit auf 4 Zierbünden mit Streicheisenlinien auf den Deckeln und rotem Sprengschnitt. [12 Warenabbildungen]
1729Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary fine quarter leather binding. Five raised bands to spine, second gilt title as "Tarih-i seyyâh", others gilt decorations. Brown boards are embossed decoratively. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [12], 194 p. Hegira: 1142 = Gregorian: 1729. Slightly wear on colophon and the first page. Otherwise a good copy. Extremely uncommon first Ottoman edition printed in the first printing house of the Islamic world as the third Islamic incunabula, of this eye witness and first-hand account, and one of the most important chronicles describing the history of late Safavid Iran in the 18th century, the Iranian invasion of Afghanistan and the siege and the fall of Isfahan in 1722 written by Kruzinski who was a Polish Jesuit missionary served in the Persia in the early 18th century. In 1720 he was nominated advocate general of the mission in Persia and became the secretary to the Bishop of Isfahan. Krusinski himself, however, claimed later on that he is not only the author but also the translator of this work. As a chronicle, this is a history of Iran under the Safavids from 1499 up to 1727 with a special focus on the 1722 Afghan invasion that terminated the Safavid dynasty. "His account of the conditions and events preceding and during the siege and the subsequent demise of the Safavids is unique. It also offers key insights into the workings of the late Safavid state and government as well as the functions of the royal harem." (Bloomsbury). Translated and expanded by Ibrahim Müteferrika of Kruzinski's Latin manuscript written in 1726 in Istanbul and entitled "Historia revolutionis monarchia Persica". The book was first published in Italian, French, and English translations, in Rome (1727), Paris (1728), and London (1728). The founder of the legendary first printing house in the Islamic world, Ibrahim Müteferrika (1674-1745), was the editor and translator of this book. Ceridehâne [i.e. Journal House] Printing House is the successor of the Müteferrika Press in the early 19th century. "The book is a Turkish translation of the history of Iran written in Latin by the Jesuit missionary Judas (Jan) Tadeusz Krusinski (1675-1751). The work, whose title can be translated as 'A voyager's description on the apparition of the Afghans and on the reasons of the Safavid Empire being undermined', focuses on the Afghan invasion of 1722 which led to the fall of the Safavid dynasty, but also offers an overview on the historical processes of early 18th-century Safavid Iran. The publication of this work was made actual not only by the vicinity of Iran to the Ottoman Empire but also by the historical turn reorganizing the relations of power in the region and triggering the intervention of the Ottomans as well. This may have been the reason that among the first Turkish incunabula this was the work published in the highest number of copies. This publication also offers an early example of copyright disputes, as Krusinski considered the Turkish translation as his own work, while Müteferrika, who does not mention his name in the printed version, suggests himself to be the translator". (Source: The Mysterious Printer Ibrahim Muteferrika and the Beginnings of Turkish Book Printing: Library of Hungarian Academy of Sciences Online). The workshop of Müteferrika began its historical mission in 1728. They published 17 works in 22 volumes. The printing house served as a means to the long-term goal of Müteferrika, his efforts to broaden the horizon and modernize the knowledge of Ottoman society and Islamic civilization. This is evidenced by the subjects of the books selected for publishing, the motivations put forth in the publisher's introductions, as well as by the documents illuminating the background of the publication of each book, also published in print. One of 1200 copies. OCLC: 312516053 (For printed copies: Two copies).; Özege: 19897.
