Missionaries
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Architecture, Physical Environment and Society In Alta California
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![This was your life! [evangelical comics in eleven different languages]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/260/339/1388339260.0.b.jpg)
This was your life! [evangelical comics in eleven different languages]
by Chick, Jack
Chico, CA: Chick Publications, various dates. Eleven versions of the staplebound tract in the usual format of Chick comics, in eleven languages: English, Pidgin, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Zulu, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Czech. Though all tell the story of someone who dies and finds that he is destined for hell due to his failure to accept Jesus, the comics directed toward Asian and African audiences have different artwork on the interior.
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£24.28
A Report of the Kingdom of Congo and of the Surrounding Countries, Drawn out of the Writings and Discourses of the Portuguese Duarte Lopez by Filippo Pigafetta. Translated from the Italian and edited, with explanatory notes, by Margarite Hutchinson. With facsimiles of the original maps, and a preface by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
by Pigafetta, Filippo. Duarte Lopez, compiler. Margarite Hutchinson, notes
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1970. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1881 first issue in photo-facsimile. xxi, 174p., illustrated with two fold-out maps bound in at the rear (reasonably good reproductions), hardbound in 9x5.5 inch bright red cloth boards gilt with a printed black spine-label field. Enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself has a small sprinkle of foxing to top edge, and top rim is slightly crimped. Dj a little edgeworn with a scrape to spine. Perfectly sound and unmarked, a very good copy. Cass...
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£36.43
Les Portugais au Tibet: Les premières relations jésuites (1624-1635)
by Didier, Hugues, translator and presenter
Paris: Chandeigne, 1996. Paperback. 383p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good first edition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane.
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£28.33
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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£12.14
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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£16.19
Le triple demisme de Suen Wen, traduit, annote et apprecie par Pascal M. D'Elia, avec une introduction et un index
by Sun Wen (Sun Yat-sen); Pascal M. D'Elia, S.J
Shanghai: T'ou-sè-Wé, 1930. xxxv, 45, 637 23p., paperback, very good. On Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People.
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£121.42
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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£12.14
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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£60.71
The little grass house at Waioli
Honolulu: The Waioli Tea Room, n.d.. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, top edge toned, otherwise very good. Introduces the replica of the grass guest house where Robert Louis Stevenson stayed in 1889 when he visited Princess Ka'iulani and her father Archibald Scott Cleghorn. The house is at the tea room, run by the Salvation Army. Includes the text of Stevenson's Family Prayer.
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£9.71
The Confucian Civilization
by Zia, Z.K
Shanghai: Mission Book Company, n.d.. viii, 99p., slender hardcover, couple of small scars to cloth, interior very good. Fourth impression. Undated; the "most up-to-date bibliography" lists publications up to 1927. Overview of Confucianism, intended to reveal its inadequacies as compared with Christianity. Preface by Frank Rawlinson and introduction by Bishop Birney.
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£20.24
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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£36.43
![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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£9.71
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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£16.19
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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£9.71
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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£60.71
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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£20.24
¿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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£9.71
Ho-Ming: Girl of New China
by Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman
London: George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935. 255p., hardcover, boards lightly scuffed and edgeworn, gift inscription on half-title page; a decent reading copy. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. A novel highlighting the changing status of women in China. Lewis, who had served as a Methodist missionary in China, was a Newbery Award-winning author of children's books.
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£9.71
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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£60.71
Indo-Portuguese History: Sources and Problems
by Correia-Afonso, John, ed
Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1981. Hardcover. xii, 201p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, map endpapers, boards lightly worn else very good condition. No dj. Papers from the International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History, held in Goa in November 1978. Includes chapters on missionaries and Jesuits.
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£16.19
Japan C.M.S. Quarterly. June, 1940
Tokushima: Church Missionary Society, Japan Mission, 1940. 32p., slender booklet format, mild edgewear and toning. Updates on missionary activities in Japan, with several black and white photos. Includes discussion of expected legislation regulating religious organizations under the militarist government; it betrays some anxiety about what is to come, but expresses relief that Christianity has been officially recognized as a tolerated religion.
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£32.38
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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£32.38
![This was your life! [evangelical comics in nine different languages]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/339/1388339152.0.b.jpg)
This was your life! [evangelical comics in nine different languages]
by Chick, Jack
Chico, CA: Chick Publications, various dates. Nine versions of the staplebound tract in the usual format of Chick comics, in eleven languages: English, Pidgin, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese (worn), and Czech. Though all tell the story of someone who dies and finds that he is destined for hell due to his failure to accept Jesus, the comics directed toward Asian and African audiences have different artwork on the interior.
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£20.24
Traité de Luís Fróis, S.J. (1585): sur les contradictions de moeurs entre Européens & Japonais
by Fróis, Luís; translated by Xavier de Castro & Robert Schrimpf, presented by José Manuel Garcia
Paris: Chandeigne, 1994. Paperback. 187p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good second revised edition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. The Portuguese Jesuit's account of his missionary work in Japan.
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£40.48
The Duty of Christians to Proclaim the Gospel Personally. A discourse, delivered before the Palestine Missionary Society of Norfolk County, at their Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting, held at Easton, Mass., June 17, 1857
Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin & Son, 1857. Pamphlet. 30, [2]p., printed wrappers. 9 x 5.5 in. "Remarks of Rev. Mr. Schneider" begin on page 23. Covers dusty and spotted. Sermon on the personal duty of Christians to proselytize, for which Christians must engage in active, disciplined, and efficient study and self-education. The remarks by Reverend Schneider discuss the Society's efforts in Syria, noting the circulation of numerous books and tracts and their importance to missionary work in that region at...
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