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A.L.O.E. (A Lady of England, Charlotte Maria Tucker). A WREATH OF INDIAN STORIES. |
£16.00 |
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211pp. In original decorated blue cloth. All edges gilt. Christian stories written for Indian readers by Amritsar missionary. Very good indeed. Prize label dated 1889 No date (1880s?) Nelson. |
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Andrews, C.F. SADHU SUNDAR SINGH. |
£13.00 |
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A Personal Memoir. 255pp. Frontispiece photograph. Very good. 1934 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Anon. REPORT OF THE NEGAPATAM AND TRICHINOPOLY AUXILIARY OF THE WESLYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. |
£108.00 |
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c400pp. Annual mission reports bound together with leather spine and corners. A little slack and scuffed. Some contemporary notes on endpapers. 1886-1895, Trichinopoly and Madras. |
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Anon. RACHEL BARCLAY (1885-1932) A MEMOIR. |
£21.00 |
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High Leigh and Ceylon. 119pp. A family memoir. Illustrated with facsimile of letters from Ceylon and a watercolour of Ceylon in colour as frontispiece. Photographs in b/w. She worked in mission schools. Very good. Family inscription. 1935 Privately printed. |
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Ashley-Brown, W. ON THE BOMBAY COAST AND DECCAN. |
£24.00 |
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The Origin and History of the Bombay Diocese. A Record of 300 Years' Work for Christ in India. 280pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Endpaper maps. Very good in darkening dw split at the fold, 1937 First edition, S.P.C.K. |
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Bertrand, Madame. ALFRED BERTRAND. |
£21.00 |
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Explorer and Captain of Cavalry. 238pp. 8 plates and 2 maps. Swiss soldier's exploits mainly in Africa. One chapter on visit to India and Himalayan trip. Newspaper obituary from 1924 loosely inserted. Very good. Owner's name. 1926 First edition, Religious Tract Society. |
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Buchanan, Rev. Claudius. MEMOIR OF THE EXPEDIENCY OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR BRITISH INDIA |
£40.00 |
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both as the Means of Perpetuating the Christian Religion among our own Countrymen and as a Founndation for the Ultimate Civilization of the Natives. 96pp. Rough cut. Rebound in plain blue modern cloth. Very good. 1811 The First American Edition, Cambridge. |
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Bull, Geoffrey T. WHEN IRON GATES YIELD. |
£10.00 |
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254pp. 3 maps. British missionary in Tibet held by the Chinese for three years. Very good in chipped dw. 1955 First, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Bull, Geoffrey T. WHEN IRON GATES YIELD. |
£10.00 |
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254pp. 3 maps. British missionary in Tibet held by the Chinese for three years. Very good in very good dw. 1956, Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Butterfield, R.P. PADRE ROWLANDS OF CEYLON. |
£45.00 |
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182pp. Portrait frontispiece. C.M.S. mission to the Tamils in Colombo, Kandy and the tea estates 1861-1884. Very good. No date (c1900), Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd. |
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Cable, Mildred and French, Francesca. SOMETHING HAPPENED. |
£10.00 |
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320pp. Folding map. The story of three remarkable women, missionaries in Chinese Central Asia. Very good indeed. 1934 Reprint ,Hodder. |
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Cable, Mildred and French, Francesca. THE STORY OF TOPSY. |
£10.00 |
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Little Lonely of Central Asia. 212pp. 32 full-page b/w photographs. Very good. 1944 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton.. |
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Caldwell, Rev.R. LECTURES ON THE TINNEVELLY MISSIONS |
£35.00 |
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Descriptive of the Field, the Work and the Results with an introductory lecture on the State of Christianity in India. 134pp. In the original blue cloth. From a college library with rubber stamp mark on the title page and label removed fron front paste down. The author was a highly respected missionary whose statue still stands in Madras and who was the first to identify the Dravidian group of languages. Very good. 1857 Bell & Daldry. |
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Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£22.00 |
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413pp. 25 b/w illustrations. Life of Baptist missionary and self-educated translator of the Bible into Indian languages. First published in 1923. Fine in fine protected dw. 1993 Reprint, The Wakeman Trust. |
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Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£31.00 |
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428pp. Index. 60 b/w illustrations. Folding map. Life of Baptist missionary and self-educated translator of the Bible into Indian languages. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good. Some spotting throughout. 1925 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£31.00 |
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428pp. Index. 60 b/w illustrations. Folding map. Life of Baptist missionary and self-educated translator of the Bible into Indian languages. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good. Blue cloth a little bubbled. 1924 Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Carus-Wilson, Mrs Ashley. IRENE PETRIE. |
£24.00 |
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Missionary to Kashmir. 343pp. Schools and travels in the 1890s, her death in Ladakh. 9 b/w photographs and a folding map of Kashmir in colour. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. 1900 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Clarkson, Rev. Wm. MISSIONARY ENCOURAGEMENTS IN INDIA. |
£35.00 |
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or The Christian Village in Gujurat. 138pp. Small 8vo. Folding map and 4 engraved plates. In the original green cloth. Front board a little creased. Otherwise very good. 1850 Fourth edition, John Snow. |
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de Silva, K.M. SOCIAL POLICY AND MISSIONARY ORGANISATIONS IN CEYLON 1840-1855. |
£10.00 |
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318pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1965 First edition, Longmans. |
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Drewery, Mary. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£12.00 |
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A biography of the Bible translator, orientalist, botanist and pioneer missionary to India. 224pp. Index. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper. 1978 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Dyer, Helen S. PANDITA RAMABAI. |
£5.00 |
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The Story of her life. 94pp double-column. B/w illustration. 4to. 1922 obituary pasted in. Much on work by Indian Christians for famine relief. Very good. Hinges slack. No date (c1910) Morgan and Scott. |
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Dyer, Helen S. PANDITA RAMABAI. |
£13.00 |
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The Story of her life. 170pp. 29pp of b/w photographs. Much on work by Indian Christians for famine relief. In the original decorated brown boards. Very good. Hinges slack. 1900 First edition, Revell, New York. |
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Elwin, E.F. INDIAN JOTTINGS |
£22.00 |
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from Ten Year's Experience in and around Poona City. 314pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. A missionary's observations of the lives of the people around him. Very good. Corners bumped. A little wear to top of spine. 1907 First Murray. |
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Elwin, E.F. INDIAN JOTTINGS |
£22.00 |
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from Ten Year's Experience in and around Poona City. 314pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. A missionary's observations of the lives of the people around him. Very good. 1907 First Murray. |
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Fraser, A.G. et al. VILLAGE EDUCATION IN INDIA. |
£5.00 |
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The Report of a Commission of Enquiry. 210pp. Index. The Commission was set up by the missionary societies of Great Britain and North America. Very good. Spine faded. 1920 Oxford University Press. |
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French, Evangeline, Cable, Mildred and French, Francesca. A DESERT JOURNAL. |
£16.00 |
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Letters from Central Asia. 261pp. 16 full-page b/w photographs. Folding map. Very good. Some fading to blue boards. 1934 First edition, Constable. |
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Graham, Rev J.A. ON THE THRESHOLD OF THREE CLOSED LANDS. |
£35.00 |
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The Guild Outpost in the Eastern Himalayas. 166pp.119 b/w illustrations. Establishing the Kalimpong mission. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. Very good. No date (introduction dated 1897) Clark, Edinburgh. |
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Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. |
£14.00 |
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The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma, 255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812. Fine in torn dw. Owner's name. 1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia. |
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Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. |
£16.00 |
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The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma, 255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812. Fine in very good dw. 1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia. |
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Harper, Susan Billington. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MAHATMA. |
£25.00 |
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Bishop V.S.Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. 461pp. Index. 17 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Eerdman's Press, Michigan |
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Hart, Frank. RAHATOR OF BOMBAY. |
£14.00 |
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The Apostle to the Marathas. 189pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good. 1936 First edition, The Epworth Press. |
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Heber, Reginald, the Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER PROVINCES OF INDIA |
£85.00 |
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from Calcutta to Bombay 1824-1825 (with notes upon Ceylon). An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India. In three volumes. 450, 564 527pp. Index. 29 engraved illustrations. The early 19th century marbled boards have been rebacked with new spines. Although the boards match exactly the spine labels are in different colours. Old library marks and one bookplate from the National Liberal Club . Very good. Tight, clean and complete. 1828 Second edition, John Murray, London. |
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Heber, Reginald. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER PROVINCES OF INDIA |
£144.00 |
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from Calcutta to Bombay 1824-1825. In 3 volumes. 450pp, 564pp, 525pp index. In original red boards with spines relaid. Large folding map in front pocket. 27 wood engravings. Very good. A tight set. 1829 Fourth edition, John Murray. |
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Heber, Reginald. POETICAL WORKS. |
£80.00 |
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347pp. Small 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. In 19th century full leather binding. Presentation inscription from 1843. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1842 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hewlett, S.S. NONE OF SELF AND ALL OF THEE. |
£10.00 |
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266pp. 14 tissue-guarded b/w photographs. In the original red decorated cloth. Tale of Christian conversion set in Amritsar. Very good indeed. No date (preface dated 1888), Third edition, James Nisbet. |
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Hiney, Tom. ON THE MISSIONARY TRAIL. |
£5.00 |
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The Classic Georgian Adventure of Two Englishmen Sent on a Journey Around the World, 1821-29. 367pp. Index. 20 illustrations and 6 maps. A deputation from the 'London Missionary Society'. Long chapter on visits to the missions in Bengal and South India. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Houghton, Frank. AMY CARMICHAEL OF DOHNAVUR. |
£5.00 |
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390pp. Index. Biography of missionary. Very good indeed. 1953 First edition, SPCK. |
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Hoyland, J.S. THE MAN INDIA LOVED. |
£5.00 |
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C.F.Andrews. 126pp. Very good in chipped dw. 1945 Second impressionn, Lutterworh Press. |
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Hudson, D.Dennis. PROTESTANT ORIGINS IN INDIA. |
£13.00 |
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Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835. 220pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, The Curzon Press. |
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Hunter, Sir William. THE OLD MISSIONARY. |
£25.00 |
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Early 19th century mission life in Bengal. The central figure of the novel is said to be Rev James Williamson of the Baptist Mission. 138pp. With five plates of engravings by Sir Charles D'Oyly. In the original cloth Very good. Spine a little rubbed. 1897 Twenty-first thousand Henry Frowde. |
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Hunter, Sir William. THE OLD MISSIONARY. |
£28.00 |
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Early 19th century mission life in Bengal. The central figure of the novel is said to be Rev James Williamson of the Baptist Mission. 138pp. With five plates of engravings by Sir Charles D'Oyly. In the original red cloth Very good indeed. 1897 Twenty-third thousand, Henry Frowde. |
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Irvine, Wm. C. Et al (edit). INDIAN REALITIES. |
£12.00 |
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Stories and Surveys of Missionary Enterprise in India... 210pp. Folding map and folding table. Photographs in b/w. Some foxing throughout. Otherwise very good. No date (1930s?), Pickering and Inglis. |
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Jackson, John. IN LEPER LAND. |
£22.00 |
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being a Record of my Tour of 7,000 Miles among Indian Lepers. 276pp. Index. 34 b/w photographs. 'Including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers.' Very good. Bookplate and rubber stamp mark of the Henry Martyn Library, Cambridge. No date (preface dated 1901), Marshall Brothers. |
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Jeffery, Mary Pauline. IDA S. SCUDDER OF VELLORE. |
£18.00 |
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138pp. 28pp of b/w photographs. Very good. Front endpaper removed. No date (1939), Wesley Press, Mysore. |
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Jeffery, Pauline. IDA S. SCUDDER OF VELLORE. |
£13.00 |
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226pp. Many b/w photographs. Very good. No date, Wesley Press, Mysore. |
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Jenkins, Rev. W.M. LIFE AND WORK IN KHASIA. |
£28.00 |
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97pp. 20 b/w photographs. The story of the Welsh Calvinist methodist Mission to the Khasia Hills. Very good. Chapel library rubber stamp. No date (c1910), Newport, Mon.. |
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Knowles, James D. MEMOIR OF ANN H. JUDSON, MISSIONARY TO BURMAH. |
£16.00 |
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354pp. Small 8vo. In the original cloth. Includes her eye-witness account of the British invasion of 1824. Sone staining mainly to prelims but a sound copy. 1849 Reprint, Gould, Kendal and Lincoln, Boston. |
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Laird, M.A. (edits). BISHOP HEBER IN NORTHERN INDIA. |
£22.00 |
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Selections from Heber's Journal. 324pp. Index. 39pp introduction and map. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1971 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Laverack, Alfred. A METHODIST SOLDIER IN THE INDIAN ARMY. |
£45.00 |
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His Personal Adventures and Christian Experience. 265pp. Portrait frontispiece. In elaborately decorated red cloth. All edges gilt. Memoirs from 1858-1866. Very good. Owner's rubber stamp mark. Fading to cloth of spine. No date (mid-19th century), Fourth Edition, T.Woolmer. |
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Longridge, George. A HISTORY OF THE OXFORD MISSION TO CALCUTTA. |
£16.00 |
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272pp. Index. 26 b/w photographs. Very good. Corners a little bumped and rubbed. 1900 First edition, John Murray. |
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Lovatt, Heather and de Jong, Peter. ABOVE THE HERON'S POOL. |
£5.00 |
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A Short History of the Peermade/Vandiperiyar District of Travancore . 166pp. Card covers. Includes extracts from the registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. The story of a missionary family and planter community. Fine. 1993 First edition, BACSA. |
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Lovett, Richard. JAMES GILMOUR OF MONGOLIA. |
£16.00 |
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336pp. 6 b/w illustrations, and 2 maps. Biography. Binding slack, frontispiece nearly loose and title page torn. 1893 Reprint, Religious Tract Society. |
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MacLagan, Sir Edward. THE JESUITS AND THE GREAT MOGUL. |
£55.00 |
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434pp. Index. 12 illustrations and 2 maps. Attractive bookplate. Very good indeed. 1932 First edition, Burns Oates. |
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Massie, J.W. CONTINENTAL INDIA. |
£30.00 |
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Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollection. Volume 2 (of 2) only. Bound in later plain red cloth. Public school library bookplate. This volume describes travels visiting missions in South India. Very good. 1840 Thomas Ward & Co. |
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McLeish, Alexander. THE FRONTIER PEOPLES OF INDIA. |
£31.00 |
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A Missionary Survey. 202pp. Index. 7 b/w photographs. 4 detailed folding maps with all missions located. A detailed survey of missionary activity from Baluchistan to Bhutan. Appendix listing mission stations of all Christian denominations. Ex-college library. Very good indeed. 1931 First edition, World Dominion Press. |
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Millar, A.A. ALEXANDER DUFF OF INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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212pp. Scottish missionary (1806-1878) influential in the development of Indian education and founder of the University of Calcutta. Fine in fine dw. 1992 First edition, Canongate, Edinburgh. |
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Minto, James R. GRAHAM OF KALIMPONG. |
£10.00 |
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202pp. 7 b/w photographs. Study of the missionary and his orphanages. Very good in like dw. Inscription. 1974 First edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh. |
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Mitchell, Mrs Murray. IN SOUTHERN INDIA. |
£40.00 |
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A Visit to some of the chief Mission Stations in the Madras Presidency 383pp. Index. Folding map. Engraved illustrations. In original decorated boards. Front hinge weak but otherwise a nice copy. 1885 First edition, Religious Tract Society |
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Morling, David. PIONEERING ON THE CAUVERY. |
£15.00 |
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159pp. 7 photographs and a map. Account of mission at Sendamangalam. Published for the Strict Baptist Mission. Very good. No date. Preface dated 1923. |
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Myers, John Brown. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£10.00 |
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The Shoemaker who became the father and Founder of Modern Missions. 160pp. In decorated boards. Engraved illustrations. Very good but paper darkening at edges. No date (preface dated 1887) Partridge. |
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Ogilvie, J.N. OUR EMPIRE'S DEBT TO MISSIONS. |
£16.00 |
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The Duff Missionary Lecture, 1913. 276pp. Index. Bookplate of the Moravian College Library on front paste-down but no other library markings. Very good indeed. A clean, bright copy. No date (1914) Hodder and Stoughton. |
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Padre, The. FIFTY THOUSAND MILES ON A HOSPITAL SHIP. |
£12.00 |
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A Chaplain's Experiences in the Great War. 284pp. 21 b/w plates. With Indian and ANZAC casualties from Gallipolli Very good . Bookplate. 1917 First edition, The Religious Tract Society. |
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Paul, F.V.N. THE CROSS OVER COROMANDEL. |
£5.00 |
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A Brief History of St Paul's Cathedral, Chennai. 78pp. Card covers. Lists of burials, bishops and trustees. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Fine. 2004 for the author, Chennai. |
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Payne, C.H. JAHANGIR AND THE JESUITS. |
£45.00 |
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With an Account of the Travels of Benedict Goes. 287pp. Index. Jesuit mission to the Moghul court. India to China over the Himalayas in the 17th century. In the 'Broadway Travellers' series. Very good indeed. 1930 First edition, Routledge. |
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Payne, C.H. (edits). AKBAR AND THE JESUITS. |
£45.00 |
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An Account of Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar by Father Pierre di Jarric. 288pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. Notes. The Broadway Travellers. Very good indeed. 1926 First edition, Routledge. |
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Peggs, James. INDIA'S CRIES TO BRITISH HUMANITY, |
£108.00 |
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relative to Infanticide, British Connection with Idolatry, Ghaut Murders, Suttee, Slavery and Colonisation in India…. 500pp. 15 engraved illustrations. In the original green cloth. Peggs was a missionary at Cuttack. Rebacked in the original cloth. A very clean, tight copy of a scarce work. 1832 Third edition revised and enlarged, published for the author by Simpkin and Marshall. |
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Pennell, Dr T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. |
£24.00 |
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A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 11 photographs. Very good. 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co. |
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Pennell, T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. |
£80.00 |
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A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Doctor missionary on the North-West Frontier Corners bumped but a very good copy in the original green cloth 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co. |
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Pool, Rev.John J. THE LAND OF IDOLS. |
£10.00 |
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Talks with Young People about India. 217pp. Many b/w illustrations. In original decorated boards. Very good. 1895 London Missionary Society. |
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Pye-Smith, Charlie. REBELS AND OUTCASTS. |
£5.00 |
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A Journey through Christian India. 304pp. Index. 32 colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Viking. |
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Rai, Raghu (photographs). FAITH AND COMPASSION. |
£21.00 |
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The Life and Work of Mother Teresa. 192pp. 4to landscape. Text by Navin Chawla. Many fine photographs in b/w. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Element Books, Shaftesbury. |
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Rijnhart, Dr. Susie C. WITH THE TIBETANS IN TENT AND TEMPLE. |
£76.00 |
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Narrative of Four Year's Residence on the Tibetan Border and of a Journey into the Far Interior. 406pp. Index. 13 photographs and a folding map. American missionary who escaped from Tibet after the death of her infant son and loss of her husband on attempt to reach Lhasa. Very good. Some bubbling of cloth over the boards but a bright, clean copy. 1901 Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh. |
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Robinson, Thomas. THE LAST DAYS OF BISHOP HEBER. |
£40.00 |
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355pp. Includes a journal of a journey (in 1825-26) through South India with the bishop. First printed in Madras. Very good in later binding with unlettered spine. 1831 Third London edition, Robert Jennings & William Chapman London. |
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Rooney, John. ON HEELS OF BATTLES. |
£10.00 |
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A History of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, 1780-1886. 129pp. Index. Soft covers. Pakistan Christian History Monograph No 3. Very good. Some underlining. 1986 Christian Study Centre, Rawalpindi |
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Sargent, Rev.John. A MEMOIR OF THE REV. HENRY MARTYN. |
£26.00 |
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484pp. With leather spine and corners. Account of his missions in India and Persia. Corners a little scuffed but binding sound. 1831 11th edition corrected and enlarged, Seeley and Burnside |
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Schwartz, C.F. REMAINS OF THE REV.C.F.SCHWARTZ, Missionary in India. |
£55.00 |
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Consisting of his Letters and Journals with a Sketch of his Life. 316pp. Eighteenth century mission in Tritchinapoly. Bound in black cloth with paper spine label. Very good. Corners worn but binding firm. Bookplate of Baptist Mission House Library and library reference written on front endpaper. No other library marks. 1823 First edition, Hatchard and Son. |
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Schweitzer, Albert. INDIAN THOUGHT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. |
£13.00 |
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272pp. Index. Very good. Some light pencilled notes. 1936 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Short, Stanley W. ON BURMA'S EASTERN FRONTIER. |
£16.00 |
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144pp. Missionary with the Shans caught up in the war. Very good in very good dw. 1945 First edition, Marshall, Morgan and Scott. |
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Smith George. HENRY MARTYN, |
£31.00 |
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Saint and Scholar. First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans 1781-1812. 580pp. Index. Portrait frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Mission service in Serampore, Patna, Cawnpore and Persia. Front endpaper removed. Otherwise very good. 1892 First edition, Religious Tract Society. |
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Smith, George. THE CONVERSION OF INDIA. |
£28.00 |
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From Pantaenus to the Present Day. 258pp. Index. A history of Christianity in India Corners bruised and slighly worn but a sound copy. The boards have been varnished. 1893 First edition, John Murray. |
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Smith, George. STEPHEN HISLOP. |
£45.00 |
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Pioneer Missionary and Naturalist in Central India from 1844 to 1863. 317pp. Index. Portrait frontispiece and 12 illustrations. Map. Service in Nagpur. One chapter on the Mutiny, 'Nagpoor saved by the Missionary'. Very good indeed. Bookplate. Slight stain on front board. 1889 Second edition, Murray. |
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Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MISSION TO CHOTA NAGPUR. |
£61.00 |
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A collection of pamplets, annual reports and quarterly journals. Stoutly bound together in red cloth. Original wrappers bound-in. Inscribed 'This volume belongs to the Committee of the D.U. Chota Nagpur Mission.' Very good indeed. 1893-1899 University Press, Dublin. |
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Statham, J. INDIAN RECOLLECTIONS. |
£98.00 |
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468pp. Observant Baptist missionary in Bengal. In 19th century full leather binding. All edges gilt. Stitching cracked (but holding) at centre of the book. Bookplate of Cheltemham Proprietary College with Latin inscription dated 1849. 1832 Samuel Bagster. |
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Streeter, B.H. and Appasamy, A.J. THE SADHU. |
£13.00 |
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A Study of Mysticism and Practical Religion. 264pp. Index. The ideas of Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sikh convert to Christianity. Very good. 1927 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Streeter, B.H. and Appasamy, A.J. THE SADHU. |
£5.00 |
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A Study of Mysticism and Practical Religion. 264pp. Index. The ideas of Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sikh convert to Christianity. Very good. Nick to head of spine. Inscriptions. 1922 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Sundkler, Bengt. CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA. |
£10.00 |
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The Movement towards Union 1900-1947. 457pp. Bibliography and index. Very good in chipped dw. Boards a little bowed. 1954 First edition, Lutterworth Press. |
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Taylor, William. FOUR YEAR'S CAMPAIGN IN INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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416pp. In the original cloth. American Methodist missionary tours India with amazing stamina and dedication. Front hinge slack. Otherwise very good. No date (Preface dated 1875), Phillips & Hunt, New York. |
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Thomas, M.M. THE ACKNOWLEDGED CHRIST OF THE INDIAN RENAISSANCE. |
£5.00 |
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340pp. Index. Two college rubber stamp marks on endpapers. How India's spritual leaders sought to interpret Christianity. Studies include Ranmohun Roy, Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan and Gandhi Very good in chipped dw. 1969 First edition, SCM Press. |
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Tuck, Mary N. EAST AND WEST. |
£10.00 |
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The Story of a Missionary Band. 224pp. 66 b/w photographs and drawings. In the original decorated boards. Account of Indian missions for girls. Very good internally but a little wear to spine cloth and some colour loss to edges of red boards. No date (c1900), London Missionary Society. |
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Valentine, D.M. MINDFUL OF OUR STEWARDSHIP. |
£10.00 |
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Eleven Years at the End of the Raj. 142pp. 44 b/w photographs. Card covers. Missionary life in Amritsar, Quetta and Karachi. Fine. 1995 True to Type Books. |
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Venn, Henry. THE MISSIONARY LIFE AND LABOURS OF FRANCIS XAVIER TAKEN FROM HIS OWN CORRESPONDENCE |
£45.00 |
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with a sketch of the General Results of Roman Catholic Missions among the heathen. 326pp. Folding map. Account of his missions in India and Japan. Very good Purple cloth faded. 2 bookplates. 1862 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. |
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Waddy, R.P.Stacy. PHILIP LOYD. |
£12.00 |
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Missionary and Bishop. 155pp. 5 b/w plates. He was Bishop of Nasik (now Nashik) 1929-1944. Signed by the author. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1954 First edition, A.R.Mowbray. |
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Walker, F.Deaville. WILLIAM CAREY. |
£10.00 |
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Missionary Pioneer and Statesman. 320pp. Index. Very good. 1926 First Student Christian Movement. |
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Ward, F. de W. INDIA AND THE HINDOOS: |
£22.00 |
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being a Popular View of the History, Government, Manners, Customs, Literature and Religion of that Ancient People with an account of Christian Missions among Them. 283pp. In the original cloth. By American missionary who sailed from Boston to South India in 1836. Very good indeed. Largely uncut. No date (1853), William Collins, Glasgow. |
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Ward, F. de W. INDIA AND THE HINDOOS: |
£28.00 |
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being a Popular View of the History, Government, Manners, Customs, Literature and Religion of that Ancient People with an account of Christian Missions among Them. 283pp. In 19th century full leather binding. 'Blairlodge Academy' in gilt on front board. By American missionary who sailed from Boston to South India in 1836. Very good. No date (1853), William Collins, Glasgow. |
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Wilkins, E. Gordon. BY HANDS, BULLOCKS AND PRAYERS. |
£10.00 |
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Building the Moorshead Memorial Hospital, Kond Hills, Orissa, India. 223pp. 47 b/w photographs. Husband and wife missionary doctors and the hospital they helped to build amongst the Kond tribal people in the foothills of the Eastern Ghats from 1936 to 1951. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, by the author. |
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Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN. |
£10.00 |
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The Story of Granny Brand. 222pp. 16 b/w photographs. Missionary work in South India. Very good in very good dw. 1976 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Wingate, Major F.R. THE YEAR'S CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP. |
£18.00 |
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From the Original Manuscript of Father Joseph Ohrwalder, 2 vols bound as one. 295, 296pp. Small 8vo. Bound with white leather spine and corners. 'Villa Bonaventura' embossed in gold on front board. Front hinge splitting but binding firm. Otherwise very good. 1892 Heinemann and Balestier, Leipzig. |
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Winston, W.R. FOUR YEARS IN UPPER BURMA. |
£85.00 |
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266pp. 29 b/w illustrations and folding map in colour. An account of Burmese life and culture and the establishment of a mission in Upper Burma from 1887. Very good indeed but front endpaper removed. 1892 First edition, C.H.Kelly. |
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Wintle, W.J. (edits). DR. J.L.PHILLIPS, MISSIONARY TO THE CHILDREN OF INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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A Biographical Sketch by his Widow. 264pp. 8 plates and a map. In the original blue cloth with gilt decoration. Work in the Baptist missions of Orissa and Bengal from 1865. Very good. Prize inscription. No date (preface dated 1898) The Sunday School Union. |
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Wylie, M. BENGAL AS A FIELD OF MISSIONS. |
£58.00 |
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389pp. Excellent large folding map. In the original brown cloth. Ex-college library. Very good 1854 First edition, W.H.Dalton. |
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