Alter, Stephen. ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN. | £12.00 | |||||
An American Boyhood in the Himalayas. 319pp. His parents were missionaries in Mussoorie. He went to Woodstock School in Landour. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997 First edition, Henry Holt, New York. | ||||||
Anon. REPORT OF THE NEGAPATAM AND TRICHINOPOLY AUXILIARY OF THE WESLYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. | £108.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Bryan, R.W. A QUIET HABITATION...a short account of St Thomas' Church, Calcutta. | £6.00 | |||||
28pp sewn booklet. Card covers. 4 plates and illustrations in the text. Very good. Some foxing. 1937 Calcutta for the church. | ||||||
Buchanan, Rev Claudius. CHRISTIAN RESEARCHES IN ASIA. | £45.00 | |||||
with Notices of Translations of the Scriptures into Oriental Languages. 306pp. Firmly rebound in plain brown cloth. Account of the author's extensive travels through India and Ceylon visiting Christian Missions. He was Vice-Principal of the College of Fort William in Calcutta. Paper a little wavy but clean and largely unspotted. 1811 Fourth Edition, T.Cadell and W.Davies. | ||||||
Buchanan, Rev. Claudius. MEMOIR OF THE EXPEDIENCY OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR BRITISH INDIA | £40.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Bull, Geoffrey T. WHEN IRON GATES YIELD. | £10.00 | |||||
254pp. 3 maps. British missionary in Tibet held by the Chinese for three years. Very good in very good dw. 1956, Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton. | ||||||
Butterfield, R.P. PADRE ROWLANDS OF CEYLON. | £45.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Caldwell, Rev.R. LECTURES ON THE TINNEVELLY MISSIONS | £35.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. | £22.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. | £31.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Carey, S.Pearce. WILLIAM CAREY. | £31.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Carus-Wilson, Mrs Ashley. IRENE PETRIE. | £24.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Drewery, Mary. WILLIAM CAREY. | £12.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Dyer, Helen S. PANDITA RAMABAI. | £13.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Elwin, E.F. INDIAN JOTTINGS | £22.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Elwin, E.F. INDIAN JOTTINGS | £22.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Fischer, Edward. MISSION IN BURMA. | £16.00 | |||||
The Columban Fathers' Forty-three Years in Kachin Country. 164pp. 33 b/w photographs. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, The Seabury Press, New York. | ||||||
Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. | £14.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. | £16.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Harper, Susan Billington. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MAHATMA. | £25.00 | |||||
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 | ||||||
Hart, Frank. RAHATOR OF BOMBAY. | £14.00 | |||||
The Apostle to the Marathas. 189pp. Portrait frontispiece. Very good. 1936 First edition, The Epworth Press. | ||||||
Heber, Reginald, the Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER PROVINCES OF INDIA | £120.00 | |||||
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. Bound with black leather spines and corners Very good. Tight, clean and complete. Some scuffing to the head of the spine of vol 1. 1828 Second edition, John Murray. | ||||||
Heber, Reginald. POETICAL WORKS. | £40.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Hiney, Tom. ON THE MISSIONARY TRAIL. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Houghton, Frank. AMY CARMICHAEL OF DOHNAVUR. | £5.00 | |||||
390pp. Index. Biography of missionary. Very good indeed. 1953 First edition, SPCK. | ||||||
Hudson, D.Dennis. PROTESTANT ORIGINS IN INDIA. | £13.00 | |||||
Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835. 220pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, The Curzon Press. | ||||||
Hunter, Sir William. THE OLD MISSIONARY. | £16.00 | |||||
138pp. With five plates of engravings by Sir Charles D'Oyly. In the original blue cloth. Early 19th century mission life in Bengal. The central figure of the novel is said to be Rev James Williamson of the Baptist Mission. Very good. 1896 Twenty-first thousand Henry Frowde. | ||||||
Ingham, Kenneth. REFORMERS IN INDIA 1793-1833. | £35.00 | |||||
An Account of the Work of Christian Missionaries on Behalf of Social Reform. 150pp. Index. Folding map. List of missionaries with dates and areas of activity. Very good in dustwrapper with slight loss to head of spine panel. 1956 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Jackson, John. IN LEPER LAND. | £22.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Jeffery, Mary Pauline. IDA S. SCUDDER OF VELLORE. | £18.00 | |||||
138pp. 28pp of b/w photographs. Very good. Front endpaper removed. No date (1939), Wesley Press, Mysore. | ||||||
Jeffery, Pauline. IDA S. SCUDDER OF VELLORE. | £13.00 | |||||
226pp. Many b/w photographs. Very good. No date, Wesley Press, Mysore. | ||||||
Jenkins, Rev. W.M. LIFE AND WORK IN KHASIA. | £28.00 | |||||
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.. | ||||||
Laird, M.A. (edits). BISHOP HEBER IN NORTHERN INDIA. | £22.00 | |||||
Selections from Heber's Journal. 324pp. Index. 39pp introduction and map. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1971 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
MacLagan, Sir Edward. THE JESUITS AND THE GREAT MOGUL. | £55.00 | |||||
434pp. Index. 12 illustrations and 2 maps. Attractive bookplate. Very good indeed. 1932 First edition, Burns Oates. | ||||||
Massie, J.W. CONTINENTAL INDIA. | £30.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
McLeish, Alexander. THE FRONTIER PEOPLES OF INDIA. | £31.00 | |||||
A Missionary Survey. 202pp. Index. 7 b/w photographs. 4 detailed folding maps with all missions located. A detailed survey of missionary activity on the Northern frontier from Baluchistan to Bhutan. Appendix listing mission stations of all Christian denominations. Ex-college library. Very good indeed. 1931 First edition, World Dominion Press. | ||||||
Millar, A.A. ALEXANDER DUFF OF INDIA. | £10.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Minto, James R. GRAHAM OF KALIMPONG. | £10.00 | |||||
202pp. 7 b/w photographs. Study of the missionary and his orphanages. Very good in like dw. Inscription. 1974 First edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh. | ||||||
Morling, David. PIONEERING ON THE CAUVERY. | £15.00 | |||||
159pp. 7 photographs and a map. Account of mission at Sendamangalam. Published for the Strict Baptist Mission. Very good. No date. Preface dated 1923. | ||||||
Moules, Leonard. THREE MILES HIGH. | £-10.00 | |||||
Northwards to Tibet. 116pp. Small 8vo. 8 plates of b/w photographs. Missionary travels to Tibet througn Kumaon from Munsiari, where he was based, to Millam. Rear hinge split and glue showing on endpapers. No date (preface dated 1947), Christian Literature Crusade. | ||||||
Myers, John Brown. WILLIAM CAREY. | £10.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Paul, F.V.N. THE CROSS OVER COROMANDEL. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Payne, C.H. JAHANGIR AND THE JESUITS. | £45.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Payne, C.H. (edits). AKBAR AND THE JESUITS. | £45.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Pennell, Dr T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. | £24.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Pennell, T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. | £80.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Pye-Smith, Charlie. REBELS AND OUTCASTS. | £5.00 | |||||
A Journey through Christian India. 304pp. Index. 32 colour photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Viking. | ||||||
Rai, Raghu (photographs). FAITH AND COMPASSION. | £21.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Read, Katherine L and Balou, Robert. BAMBOO HOSPITAL. | £12.00 | |||||
The Story of a Missionary Family in Burma. 216pp. American Baptist missionaries in the Shan States before the war. Very good. A bright copy with a very little light spotting 1961 First edition, Peter Davies.216pp. | ||||||
Rijnhart, Dr. Susie C. WITH THE TIBETANS IN TENT AND TEMPLE. | £76.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Robinson, Thomas. THE LAST DAYS OF BISHOP HEBER. | £40.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Rooney, John. ON HEELS OF BATTLES. | £10.00 | |||||
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 | ||||||
Sargent, Rev.John. A MEMOIR OF THE REV. HENRY MARTYN. | £26.00 | |||||
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 | ||||||
Schwartz, C.F. REMAINS OF THE REV.C.F.SCHWARTZ, Missionary in India. | £55.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Smith, George. ALEXANDER DUFF DD. LL.D. | £24.00 | |||||
480pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. In the original brown cloth. 30 years a Church of Scotland missionary in India. Very good. 1881 Popular edition, Hodder and Stoughton. | ||||||
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MISSION TO CHOTA NAGPUR. | £61.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Statham, J. INDIAN RECOLLECTIONS. | £98.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Sundkler, Bengt. CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA. | £10.00 | |||||
The Movement towards Union 1900-1947. 457pp. Bibliography and index. Very good in chipped dw. Boards a little bowed. 1954 First edition, Lutterworth Press. | ||||||
Thomas, M.M. THE ACKNOWLEDGED CHRIST OF THE INDIAN RENAISSANCE. | £5.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Trager, Helen G. BURMA THROUGH ALIEN EYES. | £22.00 | |||||
Missionary Views of the Burmese in the Nineteenth Century. 239pp. Index. 2 b/w illustrations. Endpaper maps. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1966 First edition, Asia Publishing House. | ||||||
Tuck, Mary N. EAST AND WEST. | £10.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Venn, Henry. THE MISSIONARY LIFE AND LABOURS OF FRANCIS XAVIER TAKEN FROM HIS OWN CORRESPONDENCE | £45.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Waddy, R.P.Stacy. PHILIP LOYD. | £12.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Walker, F.Deaville. WILLIAM CAREY. | £10.00 | |||||
Missionary Pioneer and Statesman. 320pp. Index. Very good. 1926 First Student Christian Movement. | ||||||
Ward, F. de W. INDIA AND THE HINDOOS: | £34.00 | |||||
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 full leather binging. 'Blairlodge Academy' embossed in gold on front board. . By American missionary who sailed from Boston to South India in 1836. Very good indeed. Largely uncut. No date (1853), William Collins, Glasgow. | ||||||
Ward, F. de W. INDIA AND THE HINDOOS: | £28.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Wilkins, E. Gordon. BY HANDS, BULLOCKS AND PRAYERS. | £10.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Wingate, Major F.R. THE YEAR'S CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP. | £18.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Winston, W.R. FOUR YEARS IN UPPER BURMA. | £85.00 | |||||
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. | ||||||
Wylie, M. BENGAL AS A FIELD OF MISSIONS. | £58.00 | |||||
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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