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2026réf. LRB39009389Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Hardcover binding. Language: English. Approximately 840 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1878. Text in English. This volume presents the proceedings and records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China held in 1878. It provides valuable insights into the activities discussions and decisions of Protestant missionaries operating in China during the late 19th century. The text covers theological organizational and practical aspects of missionary work reflecting the challenges and strategies of Christian evangelism in a complex cultural and political context. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026réf. LRB48038589Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 744 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1890. Text in English. This volume contains the proceedings of the General Conference of Protestant Missionaries in China held in Shanghai in May 1890. It provides a detailed account of the discussions resolutions and reports presented during the conference reflecting the challenges and strategies of Protestant missionary work in China during the late 19th century. The document offers valuable insights into the organizational structure theological debates and practical concerns of the missionary community at the time. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2016réf. Gyan-9789387574953Facsimile Publisher 2016. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 5.5 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2016réf. Gyan-9789387574953Facsimile Publisher 2016. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 5.5 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
réf. 0483350478.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 133161127X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 0265402646.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1878réf. R320103111FLAVIEN. 1878. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Agraffes rouillées, Intérieur acceptable. 64 pages - tampon sur le 1er plat à l'encre bleue. . . . Classification Dewey : 782.3-Musique lithurgique
réf. 80212Louvain, Xaveriana, 1932. 10 x 16, 32 pp., broché, bon état (1 cachet sur la couverture).
1858réf. R160107214CLERMONT-FERRAND. 1858. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 159 pages. Ecriture d'un auteur inconnu sur la deuxième de couverture. Dos abîmé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 260-Théologie sociale chrétienne
1889réf. 6276Paris, E. Dentu, 1889. In-12 broché de XXI-[3]-322-[4]p. couverture d'éditeur jaune, impression rouge et noir. Malgré une petite fente au dos et un petit tampon au faux titre, bel exemplaire.
1926réf. R47050Louvain, Xaveriana 1926 32pp., dans la série "Xaveriana" (série Congo, no.6), 15cm.
1850réf. H5215Philadelphia: Publication House 1850. Hardcover. Good. Quarto half leather marbled boards binding is good general shelfwear rubbing and wear to spine and joints contents very good some foxing. Home and Foreign Record 192 pp The Presbyterian Treasury 144 pp The Foreign Missionary Chronicle pp. 49-64 etc. Includes much on foreign missions and Native American missions including Omahaw Otoe and Ottawa tribes. Publication House hardcover
1912réf. 236551912. American Protestant mission photo archive depicting schools Western and African Christian workers in Portuguese Angola 1912 to 1914 recording the local life missionary presenceand infrastructure extending Western religious and educational authority. Dated inscriptions identify "missionaries and native workers" in 1912 and a "boys school" in 1914 while another photograph is captioned "At the Quanza" the historical English spelling of Angola's Kwanza River. Protestant missions had operated in Angola since the late nineteenth century establishing schools training African evangelists and teachers and creating networks that could compete with Portuguese colonial institutions for influence over language education and community allegiance. We believe the se are American Protestant missionaries because the language of the captions itself sounds North American. One phrase especially stands out: "Our force" That wording was commonly used by North American Protestant missionaries to describe their combined European and African staff. British missionaries more often wrote "our staff" "our workers" or "the mission staff." Likewise the informal captions "Hopefuls" "Sit down rest a while" resemble private North American missionary albums more than official British mission records. Photo archive of 27 photographs seven silver gelatin and and twenty laser-printed photographs all large format ranging from 7 x 5 to 7 x 4 inches Portuguese Angola circa 1912 to 1914. Formal portraits show European missionaries with Angolan personnel before stuccoed mission buildings including a large group captioned "Missionaries and native workers 1912" and a smaller portrait captioned "Our force 1912." School photographs depict boys girls and younger children arranged in rows with European instructors; one verso reads "Boys school 1914" while an individual portrait of two neatly dressed boys is titled "Hopefuls." Mission compounds include long veranda buildings fenced grounds thatched dwellings tents cooking equipment folding furniture and temporary encampments occupied by missionaries and local residents. Several photographs record travel and subsistence away from the station: missionaries pose beside rapids captioned "At the Quanza" rest in wooded country prepare meals outside canvas tents exchange food or supplies with African residents and occupy a mixed camp of tents and thatched structures. Other images show a fruiting orange grove men and women gathering fruit a landscape identified as "The lumbermen's camp" mission residents seated among dense vegetation river scenery village buildings and African children and adults photographed at schools settlements and work sites. Verso captions also include "Down for the night" and "Sit down rest a while" language that frames travel camp life and mission expansion through the photographer's informal record of daily activity. Portuguese rule in Angola remained uneven in the early twentieth century particularly beyond coastal administrative centers and mission stations often supplied education printing agricultural instruction medical care and religious training where the colonial state maintained little permanent infrastructure. Schools were central to this expansion. Literacy and teacher training enabled missionaries to circulate Christian texts while African instructors and evangelists carried teaching and worship into communities that European personnel could not reach directly. The photographs expose the racial hierarchy of this arrangement through clothing spatial placement and captioning: European missionaries are named collectively as the directing body while Angolan colleagues are reduced to categories such as "native workers" even when formal group portraits present them as teachers clergy assistants or institutional staff. Agricultural scenes the lumber camp mission residences school groups and mobile tent sites further demonstrate how evangelization depended upon land food production transport construction and locally recruited labor rather than preaching alone. Protestant educational networks later produced generations of Angolan teachers clergy writers and political organizers while Portuguese authorities repeatedly regarded independent mission schooling and African language literacy as potential challenges to colonial control. Light surface wear occasional creasing and fading scattered stains and adhesive or paper residue on several versos; captions remain legible. Overall in good condition. unknown books
1912réf. 236551912. American Protestant mission photo archive depicting schools Western and African Christian workers in Portuguese Angola 1912 to 1914 recording the local life missionary presenceand infrastructure extending Western religious and educational authority. Dated inscriptions identify "missionaries and native workers" in 1912 and a "boys school" in 1914 while another photograph is captioned "At the Quanza" the historical English spelling of Angola's Kwanza River. Protestant missions had operated in Angola since the late nineteenth century establishing schools training African evangelists and teachers and creating networks that could compete with Portuguese colonial institutions for influence over language education and community allegiance. We believe the se are American Protestant missionaries because the language of the captions itself sounds North American. One phrase especially stands out: "Our force" That wording was commonly used by North American Protestant missionaries to describe their combined European and African staff. British missionaries more often wrote "our staff" "our workers" or "the mission staff." Likewise the informal captions "Hopefuls" "Sit down rest a while" resemble private North American missionary albums more than official British mission records. Photo archive of 27 photographs seven silver gelatin and and twenty laser-printed photographs all large format ranging from 7 x 5 to 7 x 4 inches Portuguese Angola circa 1912 to 1914. Formal portraits show European missionaries with Angolan personnel before stuccoed mission buildings including a large group captioned "Missionaries and native workers 1912" and a smaller portrait captioned "Our force 1912." School photographs depict boys girls and younger children arranged in rows with European instructors; one verso reads "Boys school 1914" while an individual portrait of two neatly dressed boys is titled "Hopefuls." Mission compounds include long veranda buildings fenced grounds thatched dwellings tents cooking equipment folding furniture and temporary encampments occupied by missionaries and local residents. Several photographs record travel and subsistence away from the station: missionaries pose beside rapids captioned "At the Quanza" rest in wooded country prepare meals outside canvas tents exchange food or supplies with African residents and occupy a mixed camp of tents and thatched structures. Other images show a fruiting orange grove men and women gathering fruit a landscape identified as "The lumbermen's camp" mission residents seated among dense vegetation river scenery village buildings and African children and adults photographed at schools settlements and work sites. Verso captions also include "Down for the night" and "Sit down rest a while" language that frames travel camp life and mission expansion through the photographer's informal record of daily activity. Portuguese rule in Angola remained uneven in the early twentieth century particularly beyond coastal administrative centers and mission stations often supplied education printing agricultural instruction medical care and religious training where the colonial state maintained little permanent infrastructure. Schools were central to this expansion. Literacy and teacher training enabled missionaries to circulate Christian texts while African instructors and evangelists carried teaching and worship into communities that European personnel could not reach directly. The photographs expose the racial hierarchy of this arrangement through clothing spatial placement and captioning: European missionaries are named collectively as the directing body while Angolan colleagues are reduced to categories such as "native workers" even when formal group portraits present them as teachers clergy assistants or institutional staff. Agricultural scenes the lumber camp mission residences school groups and mobile tent sites further demonstrate how evangelization depended upon land food production transport construction and locally recruited labor rather than preaching alone. Protestant educational networks later produced generations of Angolan teachers clergy writers and political organizers while Portuguese authorities repeatedly regarded independent mission schooling and African language literacy as potential challenges to colonial control. Light surface wear occasional creasing and fading scattered stains and adhesive or paper residue on several versos; captions remain legible. Overall in good condition. unknown
réf. 1334931267.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1855réf. 24496Calcutta: Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press. Good. 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 183 pages; 1855 Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press. HC 1st edition. The original publication of the proceedings from this historic and important conference. Bound in original cloth with "Mission Conference" title lettering in gilt to cover. Cloth boards have decorative ruling and borders in blind. Cloth fades at spine and edges. Pin head and tracks of worming to small areas of the cloth of the upper cover. Insect predation tracks to the endpage surfaces and in the lower gutters of the last and first few leaves. Text block sound and neat with scatters pencil marginalia and underlining. Front endpage with period ownership inscription is detached and laid in with some older glue or tape toning to the gutter edge. Mild fray to cloth at tips and spine ends; mild bumping to boards at corners. A sound and complete copy quite uncommon thus. The conference was very significant in its attention to matters of gender and race bias. Addresses included pointed criticism of corruption and discrimination and suggestions for reform in the agrarian society of Bengal. Scarce in the original edition. A better than Good copy . Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press hardcover
réf. 0428991866.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0483108979.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1333137648.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1821réf. gu3014Brochure 1821 In-8 (20,3 x 25,6 cm), brochure, 4 pages, prospectus d'un établissement de missionnaires pour le diocèse, adressé par Mgr. l'évêque de Rennes au clergé de son diocèse ; bords des pages usés, assez bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
réf. 89631Louvain, Xaveriana, 1936. 10 x 16, 33 pp., 1 carte, broché, bon état (1 cachet du Collège jésuite Saint Stanislas à Mons).
1891réf. 274610De Smet Mission Print 1891. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Prayers: pp. 1-10; Catechisms: pp. 11 12 and 17. First edition first printing. Very good in wrappers paperback. 4 sheets each folded to create 4 pages. Covers are separated and loose. Missing pp. 13-16. Rear cover with closed tear no text on rear cover sheet. Scarce. De Smet Mission Print paperback
réf. 89623Louvain, Xaveriana, 1939. 10 x 16, 28 pp., broché, bon état (1 cachet du Collège jésuite Saint Stanislas à Mons).
réf. 89627Louvain, Xaveriana/Museum Lessianum, 1933. 10 x 16, 29 pp., broché, bon état (1 cachet du Collège jésuite Saint Stanislas à Mons).