London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1884. 1st Edition. Fold-out map and black & white woodcut illustrations throughout. Original gray cloth covered boards decorated in light and dark blue and gilt, some marks, spine lightly sunned, head & tail slightly frayed. Brown endpapers with inner front hinge cracked, edges and corners rubbed..... More
Philadelphia. China Inland Mission. 1950. 208pp, endpapers a little discoloured, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, reverse of chipped dustjacket mended on reverse by prior owner, good hardback copy. 19 x 13cm. "This is a storybook - but with a difference. It is a story about a Chinese girl in..... More
Melbourne. Melville, Mullen & Slade. 1895. First Edition. Map of Fuh-Kien Province in the text, 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, dark green endpapers, head & tail of spine & corners..... More
Harvard. Harvard East Asian Monographs. 1972. xviii + 283pp, bibliography, index, very good in original wrappers. 28 x 21.5cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166573. More
London. The China Inland Mission/The Religious Tract Society, 1926. A coloured foldout with 2 maps showing the stations of the C.M.S. and B.C.M.S. West China Diocese together with a Sketch map of China showing position of the Province of Szechwan. Frontispiece photographic portrait, and 18 plates, including portraits and a...... More
Maryknoll. Orbis. 1997. Maps, xviii + 350pp, index, appendix, light foxing edged and paperback covers, small mark on front free endpaper, a good copy. "The book traces the influences of premillennial eschatology, the fundamentalist-modernist controversies, the rise of independent missions and conservative denominational boards, the role of World War II..... More
Maryknoll. Orbis. 1997. First Edition. 10 black & white maps, xxiii +428pp, index, appendix, loriginal red cloth covered boards, lettered in silver and gilt, prior owner bookplate on the front free endpaper, else a near fine copy. 25.5 x 17cm. "The book traces the influences of premillennial eschatology, the fundamentalist-modernist..... More
London. The Sunday School Union. (Circa 1904). Fourth Edition. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page engravings. Attractive red cloth covered pictorial boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, endpapers browned and with a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1904. A handsome copy. 144pp. 18.2..... More
New York. Harper & Brothers. 1927. 181pp, few occasional spots, spine little faded, very good in original cloth. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166316. More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1965. First Edition. 254pp. Endpapers little browned, edges trifle foxed, dustjacket somewhat worn with spine sunned, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165934. 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
USA: Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod. 1 black and white map and a photographic frontispiece with portraits of the board of foreign missions of the Augustana synod, and numerous photographic illustrations throughout. 224pp. Green pictorial cloth covered boards lettered in gilt. The author's name has been handwritten..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1974. 259pp, index, glossary, bibliography, notes, endpapers and edges very lightly foxed, very good hardback copy in red cloth lettered in gilt. Harvard East Asia Monographs. When referring to this item please quote stockid 162698. 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
Pasadena. William Carey International University Press. 2002. xvi + 110pp, appendix, creased corners lower cover, otherwise very good paperback copy. "This book is educational, encouraging and inspirational. It is a book not just for those in business but for all who care about the Chinese people and want to understand..... More
United States. George H. Doran Company. [ 1919]. 1st edition. Black & white frontispiece and seven photographic illustrations. Original orange covered boards decorated and lettered in dark gray. Spine faded cloth lightly marked , offsetting to endpapers, yet a firm and pleasing binding. Published by the Missionary Education Movement. The..... More
London. The Carey Press. 1925. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic frontispiece, original decorated wrappers, head & tail of spine a little chipped with slight loss, 63pp, 19 x 13cm. Very clean and bright. The Xi'an Stele or the Jingjiao Stele (Chinese: 景教碑; pinyin: Jǐngjiào bēi), sometimes translated as the "Nestorian..... 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
London. S. W. Partridge & Co., 1901. 1st edition. Folding coloured map of China: "Shewing All Protestant Mission stations up to June 1866 when the C.I.M. was founded, and the Stations of the China Inland Mission opened since June 1866." Complete with black and white photographic frontispiece and numerous photographs..... More
Boston. Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1896. 1st Edition. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 further illustrations by H. Winthrop Peirce. Attractive grey cloth covered boards illustrated in blue and green. 396pp. Some light soiling mainly to the rear board and spine. Head and tail of..... 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
Notre Dame, Indiana. University of Notre Dame Press. 1962. First Edition. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, 389pp, bibliography, index, dustwrapper very slightly creased at the head of the spine otherwise very good. A scholarly and incisive account of the intrepid Jesuit missionaries which sheds light on the highly literate..... More
Delhi. Pravana Books. 2009. Reprint. 2 volumes. Volume one, viii + 1-172pp. Volume two, 173-342pp, index. Black and white photographic illustrations, 21.1 x 13.6cm. In very good condition. Biography of Calvin Wilson Mateer, an American Presbyterian missionary in Shandong, active from 1864 until his death in 1908. When referring to..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1889. Full page black and white map, 255pp, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, endpapers a little browned, slight mark under the title on the spine otherwise an extremely good copy. 18 x 12cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166364... More
London. Edinburgh House Press. 1933. Black & white frontispiece and three photographic illustrations in the text. Pictorial wrappers, some foxing throughout, spine chipped at the head and old tape-mark at the foot, 64pp. Prior owner ex-libris label on the front free endpaper but a good firm copy. 18.5 x 12.4cm..... More