Australie

1904 · réf. 025715 — Sydney: William Brooks and Co 1904. VERY HEAVY. Introduction by the Rev. George Lane. 669pp portrait frontis: John Wesley with tissue guard bw illustrations appendices index decorative endpapers. Front hinge cracked. Top edge gilt. Binding worn at leather spine and corners with loss of sections at the spine head and foot with some loss at the spine. Tape has been placed over joins between cloth and leather on the rear board. Or red cloth lightly worn rubbed stained and flecked. Internally the book is in good and clean condition. The book is in two parts: The Mission; and The Church. It was the first attempt to set out the beginnings of Methodism in Australia and Polynesia; and was the first history of any section of the Protestant Church in New South Wales. First Edition. Half-Leather. Fair to Good. Illus. by D H Souter. 4to. William Brooks and Co Hardcover