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Nairobi, Kenya. September 10, 1960. [37]pp., consisting of a manuscript narrative interspersed with seventy-four vernacular photographs (twelve 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches, the remaining sixty-two approximately 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches) all with extensive captions, and four mounted telegrams. Oblong quarto. Contemporary blue leatherette photograph album, string-tied. Minor.....
Cincinnati. 1858. 224pp. 12mo. Original blind-stamped cloth. Binding rubbed and worn, chipped at head of spine. Hinges cracked. Titlepage and p.3 chipped at fore-edge, with no loss of text. Dampstained and tanned. A fair copy. Second American edition of this volume of sermons in the Chippewa (Ojibwa) language, preached by.....
London: Printed for William Davenhill...and George Pearch, 1768. 110pp. plus one leaf of advertisements. Half title. Modern three-quarter polished calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Old institutional stamp with cancel marking on titlepage, additional stamp in upper margin of first page of dedication, and lower margin of p.53. Internally clean.....
Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1615. 16pp. Later speckled paper boards. With the bookplate from the stock and reference library of H.P. Kraus on front pastedown. Minor separation of spine paper from rear joint. Very minor foxing. A very good copy. In a half morocco box. The present work is a rare.....
[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. 196,[3]pp. Folio. Original half red and black cloth, gilt leather label. Minor wear. Internally bright and clean. Very good plus. Untrimmed. First edition, limited to 300 copies. The personal account of Father Brebeuf, Franco- Jesuit Missionary, of his time living among the Hurons. Brebeuf.....
Madrid: D. Fermin Villalpando, 1819. 94pp. Small quarto. Modern mottled calf, spine richly gilt with morroco label and raised bands, boards tooled in gilt with thick floral border. Minor rubbing to gilding, light scattered foxing. A very good copy. This sermon was delivered at the memorial service of four missionaries.....
Mexigo [sic]: Impenta [sic] de Pedro Murguia, 1864. [3]-238pp. plus five leaves of appendix and index. Lacks half title. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands. Small chips to upper margin of titlepage and first few leaves (not affecting text), light soiling to titlepage, occasional light.....
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[Ponape, 1858]. [1]p. on a 7 3/4 x 9 1/2-inch (19.7 x 24 cm) sheet. Light foxing and staining. Very good. An unusual imprint, an early product of what is generally considered the first printing press in Micronesia. In 1852, a group of Protestant missionaries, sent under the auspices of.....
Cologne: Ex officina Melchioris Novesiani, impensis Arnoldi Birckman, 1532. [82] leaves. Woodcut title portrait of Charles V within a woodcut border of escutcheons of Spanish provinces and towns, the portrait repeated within decorative border-pieces on A1 and F1; large ornamental woodcut initials and border-pieces in text; woodcut printer's device at.....
Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary, 1844. xi,[1],132pp. 12mo. Original half green sheep and floral- patterned cloth, spine gilt. Cloth scraped, worn at spine ends. Lacking front free endpaper. Scattered foxing, some leaves tanned. Very good. Partially unopened. A scarce religious tract emphasizing the moral imperatives for evangelistic missionary work.....
Paris: Le Mercier, 1735. Four volumes. Titlepages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot. Sixty-five engraved maps and plates (sixty-two folding, one page of engraved sheet music, two single-page plates) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, and Fonbonne after d'Anvillee, Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier, and others;.....
Boston: D. Henchman, 1749. [2],xii,[18],316,[2]pp., including publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf. Calf rubbed and scuffed, corners and spine worn, hinges tender. Contemporary ownership inscription on front and rear pastedowns and rear free endpaper. Upper corner of leaves Z1 and Z2 torn away, not affecting text. Moderate foxing and soiling. Good. A.....
[N.p. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, ca. 1830s]. [2]pp., printed on the first and third pages of a folded folio sheet. Docketed in manuscript on the fourth page. Old folds. Very slight splitting along the extremities of the folds. Near fine. A questionnaire produced by the American Board.....
[Various locations in the Nilgiris District of India, including Ooty, Cocanada, Bangalore, Doddabetta, Kotagiri, Marlimund, and other sites in India, such as Allahabad and Calcutta. 1884-1894]. Ninety-eight original photographs, from approximately 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches to 8 x 10 inches. Oblong folio album. Contemporary black cloth over beveled.....
San Bruno, Baja California. August 15, 1684. [1]p., with docketing on verso, approximately 10 x 7 3/4 inches. Previously folded sheet, slightly cropped at right edge. Very faint scattered foxing. Very good. A quite rare and early manuscript document signed by and in the hand of Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco.....
Barby. 1789. [14],783,[1]pp. Thick 12mo. Contemporary calf. Very good. The first edition, first state of this important work (with a six-line errata). A very important official account of missionary work among the Indians of the frontier in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York from 1735 to 1787, including details on the.....
Lyon: Chez Rusand, 1822. 67pp. Titlepage engraving. Dbd. Light foxing on preliminary and final leaves, ink stamp on final leaf. Very good. New edition, enlarged, after the original Paris edition of 1820. An account of the Catholic missionary activity under Bishop Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Du Bourg, whose diocese included the Ohio, Mississippi.....
London: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, Bookseller in Boston in New-England, 1727. xxiv,310pp. plus [2],8pp. of booksellers' advertisements. Early 20th-century polished calf, spine gilt, leather label, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription crossed out at head of titlepage. Light to moderate foxing. About very good. Mayhew worked.....
Limoges: Barbou Freres, [ca. 1854]. 191pp. Tinted lithographic frontis. Half title. Contemporary elaborate embossed filigree over textured cloth, spine richly gilt, recased with new endpapers. Cloth rubbed and edgeworn, spine label a bit chipped. Foxing throughout. Good plus. The only edition of this scarce Native American missionary narrative which, according.....
London. 1846. 40pp. Publisher's self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Very good. First edition of the second report sent back by Rev. O'Meara as a result of his missionary work with the native tribes in Canada in the 1840s. The work was printed in August 1846 for the Society for the Propagation.....
Madrid. 1762. Thirteen volumes bound in fifteen. [100],704; [67],581; [44],619; [8],536; [8],608; [16],632; [28],611; [36],632; [18],586; 40,586; [14],618; [8],525; [8],564; [8],651; [42],652pp., plus three engraved portraits. Woodcut titlepage vignettes, head- and tail- pieces, and initials. Large folio. Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, spines elaborately gilt, leather labels. Some rubbing to boards.....
Madrid. 1645. [40],763,[1]pp. Folio. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, MARCA DEL FUEGO. Hinges cracking, light soiling to vellum. Very small ink stamp in upper inner corner of titlepage. Light foxing and tanning to text; some very slight worming, confined primarily to margins in rear of text block. A few ink.....
Barcelona: Imprenta de los Herederos, 1853. [6],400,[1]pp. plus two portraits, twelve engraved plates, and folding map. Half title. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Slight scattered foxing, else internally quite clean. Closed tear to verso of map, repaired with tape. Very good. First Spanish.....
Lisbon: Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1699. [12],819pp. Early 20th-century morocco, boards and spine gilt, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., silk marker. Internally very clean. A very fine copy. An extensive history of the Augustinian convent of Santa Monica, founded in Goa in 1606. The work includes a detailed biography of Aleixo de.....
Rome: Heirs of Antonio Blado, 1571. [4]pp. Quarto. Modern morocco, coat of arms on front and rear covers, board edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., silk marker. Contemporary inscription on first page. A very fine copy. The rare Latin translation of Santa Maria's account of the mission in Malacca and.....
