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rif. elala2230Madras: M.E. Press 1906. Text by Rev. Ralph E.Smith Secretary of the Conference and J.Heinrichs. 8vo. pp. 20. stitched as issued [Madras: M.E. Press, 1906] unknown
1916rif. EXP019Boston: The Pilgrim Press 1916. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Boston: The Pilgrim Press 1916 Good Contents: - General survey of Turkey - Survey of the American missions - Survey of the educational system - Miscellaneous and personal 1916 SCARCE ANTIQUARIAN COPY Book is an Ex-Library copy in good condition 353 pp 36 Plates Usual ex-library defects may be present including catalog numbers on spine card pockets stamping ex-libris bookplateor authors name and/or normal shelfwear but book is still wholly intact SEE PICTURES for any wear or defects Condition based on age of book To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked conditions of GOOD If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to send us an email The Pilgrim Press hardcover
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1885rif. 248751885. Leitch spent 11 years in Sri Lanka with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. She was co-author of "Seven Years in Ceylon" published by the American Tract Society. In this photo she is seated with a book under her arm surrounded by four adorable Sri Lankan girls. Cabinet card albumen photograph title beneath gilt edges. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2". A bit of light marking o/w very good condition. unknown
1913rif. 33231St Michaels: Franciscan Missions. Very Good. 1913. Paperback. German edition of The Franciscan Missions of the Southwest No. 1 1913. St Michael's Arizona. 48 pages of text plus advertising sections front and back in English . Original wrappers very good condition. NUC shows English edition only. . Franciscan Missions paperback
1855rif. DEMO015061ICincinnati: Moore Wilstach Keys & Co. 1855. First edition. Duodecimo. Very Good. folding map. 12mo x 216 pages blind embossed chocolate cloth paper residue on spine Ex-library with pockets but no numerals on spine bookplates. minor splits; western margin of map crinkled torn chip in lower left blank margin lightly stained. This was the Second Book on Kansas Territory and the first from personal observation. . Boynton and company were advance scouts for "The American Reform Tract and Book Society" and "The Kansas League" . They had many adventures traveling from Cincinnati in the Autumn of 1854 including cholera on board the riverboat. Howes B677; Graff 376; Streeter IV:1990; Wagner-Camp-Becker 250. Asks and answers the question of how Christians should respond to the proposed spread of slavery to Kansas Territory. With a folding map of Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma / Indian Territory by Henry V. Boynton Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST 4. Uncommon: Note: Cora Dolbee in the Kansas Historical Quarterly states that the three only copies of this book she had seen are "of the same first and probably only edition of the book ever issued - Vol. 4 no.2 May 1935." Folding map. Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. unknown
2010rif. 2092902140700396Shinkyo shubbansha 2010. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B6 Number of books: 1 book Shinkyo shubbansha paperback
1856rif. DEMO000593IChicago : Diocese of Illinois 1856 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo 30 pages blue printed wrappers Not in ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS - perhaps because no printer or location is explicit. "Another diocesan year has ended with its labours and cares comparatively easy to forget; its sins and omissions which we cannot and dare not." Includes an account of Bishop Whitehouse's labours and omissions." Note: "This address is found as a second edition in the 'Journal of the Protestant Episcopal Church . 1856. It also circulated as a separate with text of wrapper title same as title page - Byrd 2552." Diocese of Illinois paperback
1950rif. 175510The United Society for Christian Literature for the Moravian Missions 1950. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges and endpapers else very good clean & sound condition. 12mo. 383pp. The United Society for Christian Literature for the Moravian Missions hardcover
1860rif. 004537Toronto: Anson Green 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo xi 424 pages minor foxing short breaks at the folds of the brown embossed cloth. Lacks the lithographed portrait frontispiece no evidence that it was ever inserted. Ex libris William Binkley. Rare - The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North American Indian Sales of 1999 had three works by Jones but not this one. Kehkewaguonaby was a Mississauga Ojibwa Chief British father Ojibwa mother who converted to Wesleyan Methodism and was ordained a minister. These are the first journals kept by a Canadian native. He became the first native missionary to the Ojibwa and with his brother John was the first translator of books of the Bible into Ojibwa and Chippewa. He was also photographed in his native regalia circa 1844-46 - thus the earliest known photograph of a North American Indian. Sabin 36591. This work includes his autobiography with an account of his conversion experience and the details of his ministries. Anson Green hardcover
1933rif. 6586New York: Joseph F. Wagner 1933 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo brown wrappers bookplate Inscribed to John Witte in 1936 at Mount Calvary Wisconsin. Issued as No. 12 in "Franciscan Studies" This was Fr. Roemer's doctoral dissertation. "The justification for the inclusion of the monograph in the series of FRANCISCAN STUDIES lies in the fact that the three branches of the Franciscan Family in the United States owe much to the kindly assistance of the Munich Ludwig-Missionsverein - Preface". Joseph F. Wagner paperback
1856rif. 0007094New York and Auburn: Miller Orton & Mulligan 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo; viii 240 pages blind embossed brown cloth spine faded front hinge started foxing. "My book is a record of facts. The style is my own the material was furnished on the Border. The scenes through which I passed were in some respects supremely ridiculous and must be laughable; there were others which were inhuman and must therefore excite horror. To write of events in any other manner than that in which they occurred would not be a true history - Author's Advertisement." Howes M175; Graff 2645; Wagner-Camp-Becker 277. McNamara preached the gospel in northwest Missouri before accepting a call to a church in Chicago in 1853. In 1854 he was appointed as a missionary to the Kansas Territory. He started a parish at Ft. Leavenworth. "A vehement abolitionist he became involved in a heated argument with the post commander and was banned from the fort - KANZAS: The Territorial Years A K-State Libraries exhibit." McNamara became an arch-foe of W. P. Richardson General of the Kansas Militia and a flaming pro-slavery advocate. Note: the Appendix presents the Black Laws of the Kansas Territorial Code the Draco-Kansas Code. Miller, Orton & Mulligan hardcover
1848rif. DEMO015918IGand / Ghent: Chez Ve Vander Schelden 1848. First Belgian edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo 589 pages contemporary full green sheep extra gilt aeg scuffed. Inked presentation in 1912 from Rev. Francis J. Harbe: Harbe died in 1913 at age 37 in San Antonio Texas. He may have acquired this when a seminarian at Belgium in 1900. Howes D286; Graff 3826; Field 1425; Sabin 82266; Smith 9549; Strathern 511:iii. "This edition seems to have been prepared by the author himself. It contains more material than the edition in English "Oregon Missions" the illustrations are different and the three maps are entirely new - Sabin 82265." It has several additional letters and an Appendix pp. 360 - 378. "Origine des Americains." Contains Fr. De Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River Plateau . he continued . to the Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville -- Wagner-Cam-Becker 141.2." Contains 16 plates including the pictorial title-age and 3 folding maps. Chez Ve Vander Schelden hardcover
1863rif. DEMO014559INew York: P. J. Kenedy 1863. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontispiece portrait. 8vo; 532 4 pages modern brown cloth inscription on flyleaf 1889 something was rubbed out from title-page below the publisher's imprint. Translation of his "Cinquante nouvelles lettres". Howes D289; Smith 9569; Wagner-Camp- Becker 308:2; Sabin 82277. "Two of Father De Smet's journeys described here are especially worth noticing. The first is his visit to the Sioux in September and October of 1848; and the second is the description of the "Grand Desert" in 1851 -WCB." Howes reports that the portrait is "only found in some few copies of the 1863 edition." This copy has the steel-engraved portrait of DeSmet. P. J. Kenedy hardcover
1850rif. DEMO015143ILille France: L. Lefort 1850. Stated Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. steel-engraved frontispiece. 8vo 258 pages 20th century half sprinkled calf marbled boards original wrappers bound in place. Needs to be read with de Smet's LETTERS AND SKETCHES . AMONG THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 1843 which contains several letters not included in this French text; but this French text "contains material not found in the English - Wagner-Camp-Becker 113a:5." Howes M288; Graff 3831; Monaghan 1332. Binding by "Reliure Francais". Issued in the Bibliotheque Historique et Morale this is actually the Third French Edition. Steel-engraved frontispiece. L. Lefort hardcover
1848rif. DEMO015778IParis & Lyon: Librairie de Poussielgue-Rusand 1848. First French edition. Hardcover. Very Good. lithographs. 12mo 408 pages quarter red calf marbled boards lacks half-title. Ex libris Francis Reynolds Dickinson. Howes D286; Graff 3826; Field 1425; Sabin 82266; Smith 9549; Strathern 511:iii "Contains Father Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau . he continued . to the country of the Assiniboines and arrived at Fort Augusta . He returned to Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville -- Wagner- Camp - Becker 141:3." Contains only 8 trimmed of its 13 chromolithographed plates lacking also its illustrated half-title. Librairie de Poussielgue-Rusand hardcover
1916rif. 10902Washingnton D. C.: Society for the Preservation of the Faith Among Indian Children. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1916. First Edition; First Printing. Magazine. Chipped at the top of the front cover. ; Nice photo feature on "the men who mould the Indian's destiny. " It was a different world. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages . Society for the Preservation of the Faith Among Indian Children unknown
1985rif. DEMO014560IFairfield WA: Ye Galleon Press 1985. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. 12mo 66 pages maroon buckram Introduction by William Lyle Davis S.J. "His first and rarest book; consists of translations from the Lyons edition of ANNALES DE LA PROPAGATION DE LA FOI -Howes D282." Field 1422; Graff 3822; Wagner-Camp-Becker 87. ". it is an account of the journey to the 1840 rendezvous and of De Smet's subsequent journey to the village of the Flatheads and return across the Rockies by the Yellowstone and Missouri -Streeter III:1806." Ye Galleon Press hardcover