Melbourne. Melville, Mullen & Slade. 1895. Map, black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations with tissue guards, xii + 320pp,original dark green decorative cloth lettered in gilt on spine, inscription front free endpaper, head & tail of spine tender cloth rubbed at extremities, corners bumped, occasional light..... More
n.p. London Missionary Society. (c1890). No date. A map of China and Japan, 56 engravings many full page, 287pp. Yellow cloth covered pictorial boards and spine, slightly discoloured. A very clean copy internally. A Presention Copy from the London Missionary Society and a torn label on the front pastedown 'to..... More
London. James Nesbit & Co., 1870. 1st Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, title-page with engraved vignette, viii + 596pp and 8 pages of publisher's adverts, appendix. Maroon coloured cloth boards, sunned on the spine with a small mark where a label has been removed, stamped in blind on front..... More
London. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1924. Second Edition. Black & white photographic frontispiece and 23 photographic plates throughout the text. Bright yellow cloth covered boards, stamped with a Chinese Snake Catcher device on front board, slight sunning to the spine, some spotting to fore-edge, and endpapers, but a very..... More
Paris. Les Belles Lettres. 1980. 44pp (pp 185-229), a clean copy in little marked and damp-damaged wrappers. La Chine au Temps des Lumières IV actes du IIe Colloque international de sinologie, 16-18 septembre 1977. Text in French, with one paragraph on the first page in English. Contains one article entitled..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha. 1977. ix + 234pp, notes, chronological table, bibliography, index, very good hardback in slightly torn and repaired dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166790). More
London. The Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford. 1962. Black and white photographic frontispiece, xiv + 139pp, lightly browned spine, extremities, and endpapers, otherwise good hardback copy in browned and price clipped dustjacket. Contents include The Vision of Eternal Things, The Christian Source of Love and Power, The Jewish..... More
Chicago. SMCL Presbyterian Board. (circa1880). 395pp, upper corner stained, some very light browning, tan cloth very lightly worn and marked. A good copy. Student Missionary Campaign Library. "Tbe object of the story is to give a fair view of woman's life among the lower and middle classes in Southern China."..... More
Tours. Mame. 1876. Frontispiece "martyre de Joachim Ho", 213pp, original wrappers, first gathering loosening but stitching still holding. Text in French. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 136591). More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1897. Black & white frontispiece and four full-page photographic plates,158pp + 2 pages of publisher's adverts, first and last leaves foxed, prize book label on front paste-down dated Feb.1902. Tan coloured cloth lettered in gilt on the upper spine and upper board and a black stamped..... More
New York. Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1894. 1st Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 9 plates, 1plate lacking. 301pp, appendix, yellow cloth covered boards, darkened spine and edges, soiling to covers, inner gutters cracked but holding firm, endpapers trifle browned but generally a clean and..... More
London. London Missionary Society. 1899. 1st Edition. Sixty-four black and white illustrations, vii + 216pp, original shiny black endpapers have a few marks, a small label has been removed and the black ink mark has leaked through to the rear of the front free endpaper. Spine very faintly sunned and..... More
Sydney. Pettigrew. 1949. Maps, including front free endpaper map, black and white illustrations, 251pp, ownership details first blank, a little light even browning and minor wear cloth. Overall very good. Australian missionary's account of service in China. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 167154). More
Sydney. Donald F. Pettigrew. 1949. Maps, black and white photographic plates, 251pp, hardback, light occasional foxing edges, a prior owner's inscription half title, very good in original cloth. Subtitle: China Life and Experiences. Tales of the People. Life Stories of Men and Women. Information Regarding Confucianism. Historical Data. Pottery Manufacture..... More
London. London Missionary Society. 1906. Black and white photographic images, 191pp, first and last pages foxed, lower corner upper cover and first leaves damp stained not affecting text, light insect damage covers. A Sunday school prize section neatly filled out on front free endpaper. A sound copy. This book discusses..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1893. 320pp and 2 pages of publisher's adverts. Lacks front free endpaper, signs of careless opening margin one leaf, neat signature of a prior owner half title, some occasional foxing and soiling first and last leaves. Upper and lower covers heavily damp affected. Text very sound..... More
Toronto. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. 1917. Black and white plates, 344pp, bound in original green cloth with pictorial label upper cover, titled in gilt upper cover and spine. Upper margin and edges of some leaves creased with a few minor tears, cloth a little worn, inscribed to Sunday school teacher..... More
Carlisle. Piquant. 2007 & 2009, 2007and 2009. 2 volumes. Volume I: Fire & Blood The Church in China: xvii + 656pp, Volume II: Henan. The Galilee of China. 353pp. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations in both volumes, very good paperback set. (When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
New York. Fleming H. Revell Company. 1923. 175pp. Foreword by Isaac Taylor Headland. Inscribed by the author in 1931 on the front free endpaper, original yellow boards little soiled, head and tail of spine very lightly worn, good copy. Theodora M. Inglis, the wife of a medical missionary in China..... More
London. CIM London 1913-18, 1918. Reprint. Black and white illustrations, one illustration torn out and loose without loss, xi + 111pp, cloth binding somewhat soiled and worn, large prize inscription dated 1924 front free endpaper, lower corner of pp31/32 torn with loss to eight lines of text, otherwise sound. Account..... More
London. The Carey Press. (1924). 1st Edition. Black & white photographic portrait frontispiece. vii + 313pp and bibliography. Light green cloth lettered in gilt. Top edge, preliminaries and finals foxed, green cloth lettered in gilt, a very pleasing clean and bright cover in the original ochre coloured dust wrapper, with..... More
London. The Carey Press. 1925. 2nd edition, new & revised. 2 sketch maps, 1 plan, black and white photographic frontispiece and 35 illustrations, xiv + 338pp, index, endpapers and edges very lightly foxed, green cloth binding, pictorial gilt dragon stamped on the front cover and lettered in gilt on the..... More
Washington D.C. Brookings Institution. 2004. vii + 200pp, index, hardback in very good condition. 23.5 x 15.5cm. Religion's dramatic revival in post-Mao China has generated tensions between the ruling communist party-state and China's increasingly diverse population of religious adherents. Such tensions are rooted in centuries-old governing practices and reflect the..... More
Piscataway. Gorgias Press. 2009. Reprint. Map, xii + 930pp, bibliography, index, hardback, 23.5 x 16cm, very good copy. Originally published in 1928, the book discusses Christian missions in China, considering how various factors including politics, economics, and religion, helped to shape the enterprise and appealed to Chinese public. (When referring..... More
New York. HarperCollins. 2011. xxi + 231pp, very good hardback in dustjacket. When journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in the officially secular China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and that those who believed in it were..... More
