Missionaries
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Histoire de la Mission d'Amboine, 1546-1605: despuis sa fondation par Saint François Xavier jusqu'a sa destruction par la Compagnie Neerlandaise des Indes Orientales
by Wessels, C.; translated by J. Roeboek, S.J
Louvain, Belgium: Museum Lessianum, 1934. Paperback. 238p. + [1]p. of plates, two fold-out maps, wraps, 6x9.25 inches, wraps worn and toned, sticker on front wrap, neatly ex-library with ownership stamp on half-title and copyright page else good condition. Text in French. Museum Lessianum-Section Missiologique, No. 19. The mission was on Amboine, a small island in Indonesia.
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£32.54
The Missionary mind and American East Asia policy, 1911-1915
by Reed, James
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xiv, 258p., hardcover; ownership stamp of Philip Choy, the architect better known as a Chinese American historian, on front endpaper; otherwise very good. Harvard East Asian monographs, 104.
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£20.34
Noto dayori | Letters from Noto : 1955-1964 能登便り with English Translation
by Winans, Hideko. Photographs by David Beckman
Kanzawa: Hokkoku Shinbunsha 北國新聞社, 2009. Hardcover. 181p. Illustrated. Text in Japanese and English. Fine. Inscribed and signed by Yvonne Nimnicht Beckman (daughter of the author and photographer). "An excerpt from a collection of letters" written from the author while she was in Noto Japan to her parents (living in Berkeley at the time). The photographs are by her then husband., a missionary from the New Tribes mission. One copy (in Japan at the National Diet Library) in OCLC as of July, 2016.
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£61.00
A vagabond in Fiji
by Foster, Harry L
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1927. Hardcover. viii, 309p., original green cloth boards with titling in gilt, bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, softly bent corners, else in very good condition.
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£12.20
Handbook on Computer and Health; for non-governmental, charitable, social development, and community service organisation
by Tak-sun, Dr. Yu, medical consultant
Germany and Kowloon, Hong Kong: Evangelisches Missionswerk and Asia Monitor Resource Center, Ltd, 1993. Pamphlet. 23p. + [2p.], stapled glossy pictorial wraps, 6x8.5 inches; in very good condition, with publisher's note laid in. Publishers note laid in by the AMRC Editorial Board telling the reader that the illustrated handbook was jointly published with a German Protestant development organization and meant to be a user-friendly guide.
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£36.60
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China notes [three issues]
New York: East Asia Office, Division of Overseas Ministries, NCC, 1972. Newsletter. Vol. XI, nos. 1, 2 and 4 of the newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, 12 pages each, No. 1 with front wrap beginning to separate else very good condition. Articles on religion in China, including during the Cultural Revolution. Contributors include John King Fairbank, John Strong, Franklin Wo, John Fleming and others.
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£9.76
Simply human beings
by Docker, E.G
Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson/Jacaranda Press, 1965. Hardcover. xii, 260 p., cloth boards in dust jacket, jacket is a bit dust-soiled with some silverfishing to spine titling. An examination of historical and contemporary relations between Aborigines and whites in Australia. Illustrated with B&W photos.
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£12.20
¿Els Primers Missioners D'Amèrica Foren Catalans
by Català i Roca, Pere
Barcelona: Rafael Dalmau, Editor, 1988. 70, [10]p., wraps, 4.75 x 6.5 inches, very good condition. Text in Catalan. Episodis de la Història; 272/273.
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£9.76
Kalumburu. The Benedictine Mission and the Aborigines 1908-1975
by Perez, Eugene Fr
Wyndham, WA: Kalumburu Benedictine Mission. 1977. Small Quarto Size [approx 17x24cm]. Good+ Condition. covers and endpapers a little soiled. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 173 pages. The history of Kalumburu Mission in North Western Australia. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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£20.88
L'Ouest Africain et les Missions Catholiques; Congo et Oubanghi
by Renouard, G
Paris: H. Oudin, Libraire-Éditeur, 1904. viii+321p., 8x11.25 inches, unopened pages, text in French illustrated with photos, figures and maps, in lightly-worn original cream wraps printed in red and black.
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£61.00
Unarmed Among Outlaws and other true stories
by various authors
Short true stories based missionary experiences between 1796 and 1912. Acknowledgement is made to the Church Missionary Society for the use of material in letters, reports etc.Ex school library book with associated stamps
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£5.00
Ethiopia Oriental e varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente.
by João dos Santos (Évora, after 1560 - Goa, 1622)
• Extremely rare, important and early work on East Africa and the East Indies • João dos Santos (Évora, after 1560 - Goa, 1622).
Ethiopia Oriental e varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente.
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Varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. E da christandade que os religiosos da Ordem dos pregadores nelle fizerāo
Évora, (colophon vol. 2: Impresso no Convento de S. Domingos de Evora), Manoel de Lyra, 1609 (colophon vol. 2: printed in 1608).
2 volumes in 1. 8°. [8], 140; [3, 1... Read more about this item
Ethiopia Oriental e varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente.
[Including:]
Varia historia de cousas notaveis do Oriente. E da christandade que os religiosos da Ordem dos pregadores nelle fizerāo
Évora, (colophon vol. 2: Impresso no Convento de S. Domingos de Evora), Manoel de Lyra, 1609 (colophon vol. 2: printed in 1608).
2 volumes in 1. 8°. [8], 140; [3, 1... Read more about this item
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£20,764.80
Mission & Evangelism In Recent Thinking
by Robert Bashford
The book concentrates on interdenominational evangelistic efforts in Britain, and on the special role played by the Church of England as the national church. Bashford's presentation is readable, and his research is thorough.
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£3.00
African Heroes: Ntsikana, Tshaka, Khama, Mosheshoe. Poems
by Darlow, D. J
[Alice, South Africa]: The Lovedale Press, nd. 75p. + 4 plates, wraps, lightly warped, foreedges foxed else good condition. The Lovedale Press was associated with the Lovedale Missionary Institute, which was headquartered in what is now Alice (then called Lovedale).
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£12.20
The California Mission Story
Berkeley: Mike Roberts Color Production, 1951. 24p. 9x6 inches oblong, map, color photos, brochure with color photos, printed in the 1960s, stapled pictorial wraps.
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£8.13
Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People
by Headland, Isaac Taylor
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909. 372p., hardcover, minor shelfwear, spine ends rubbed. Headland went to China in 1890 as an American Methodist Episcopal missionary. He worked as a professor of science at Peking University and later served as president of the Anglo-Chinese College in Fuzhou.
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£61.00
The five Franciscan churches of Mission Santa Clara, 1777-1825, a documentation
by Spearman, Arthur Dunning
Palo Alto: The National Press, 1963. Hardcover. xiv, 164p. + two foldout plates, profusely illus., tan cloth boards titled & decorated black, enclosed in the dust jacket. Very good in a dust jacket that has chips to edges, general brittleness and tearing, entire front flap detached.
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£32.54
You are invited to become a Friend of India Colleges
by Friends of India Colleges
Northern California], [193-]. pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 3.25x6.25 inches, very good. Dated by a mention of the Lindsay Commission On Christian Higher Education In India. Includes a piece by Nobel Prize winner Arthur Compton on the importance of Christian colleges in India, a list of the colleges (including those in Lahore, this pre-dating the split), and officers of the Northern California Advisory Committee.
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£16.27
Charles W. Abel of Kwato, Forty Years in Dark Papua, By His Son Russell W. Abel. Introduction by the Rev. Charles R. Erdman
by Abel, R.W., (Russell)
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1934. Hardcover. 255p., illustrated with vignette silhouettes and with numerous b&w photos reproduced fullpage on glazed inserted stock, including a frontis photoportrait of the elder Abel. Casing is rather edgeworn, with a touch of card showing, fray and a short tear at the rims. Endsheets are very foxed, and on p.18 expect a marginal bracket in red pencil, else very good.
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£16.27
Facing the Pacific
by Hunter, Allan A
Kobe, Japan: Self-published by the author, 1929. Paperback. 87p., very good in wraps, minor wear to spine. Publication information given in Japanese at rear. The author, a minister raised in Riverside, CA and educated at Princeton, discusses pressing issues in Japan and China and their relationship with the impact of the West on Asia. Critical of anti-Asian sentiment in the US. Foreword by David Starr Jordan of Stanford.
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£61.00
![The Path of Labor; Theme: Christianity and the world's workers. Authors, M. Katharine Bennett, Grace Scribner, John E. Calfee, A.J. McKelway, L.H. Hammond, Miriam L. Woodberry [and] Walter C. Rauschenbusch](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/540/151/1535151540.0.b.jpg)
The Path of Labor; Theme: Christianity and the world's workers. Authors, M. Katharine Bennett, Grace Scribner, John E. Calfee, A.J. McKelway, L.H. Hammond, Miriam L. Woodberry [and] Walter C. Rauschenbusch
by Bennett, M Katharine, et al
New York: Council of Women for Home Missions, 1918. Paperback. viii, 192p., wraps, 5x7.25 inches, wraps worn, spine creased, tail of spine chipped, sticker scar on verso of front wrap, rubberstamp on half-title, else good condition. Cover subtitle: "A Symposium.
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£9.76
San Elizario Presidio-Mission
by Calleros, Cleofas
El Paso, TX: the Mission, 1969. Pamphlet. 30p., 5.25x8 inches, b&w illustrations and vintage photos, very good pamphlet in stapled white pictorial wraps. illustrations of Mission personages and structures over the years. Produced for the 1969 Fiesta de San Elizario.
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£12.20
The True Revival Versus Torreyism
by Williams, T. Rhondda, editor
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co, 1904. 93p., stiff card wraps, 4.75 x 7.25 inches, wraps worn and soiled, a few small stains on rear wrap else very good condition. None in OCLC as of 8/2020. Criticism of the American evangelist Dr. R. A. Torrey, who, along with his partner Charles Alexander, led hugely popular revival missions in England starting in 1903.
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£61.00
What we saw in Africa
by Hogg, C.F
Bath: Echoes of Service, 1940. 79p., staplebound booklet, light handling wear. South African missionary's description of a trip through various parts of southern central Africa.
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£9.76
They Call Me Father: Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola.
by WHITEHEAD, Margaret (editor)
Black boards with spine lettering gilt, octavo, pp. xi, 203. Black and white illustrations.
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£7.69
