London. The Sunday School Union. (nd. c1904.). 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
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. Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. (circa1900). Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card box repaired with acid free archival tape along folds. Some occasional light foxing on sheets, card covers browned and worn in places, a...... 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
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
London. The Religious Tract Society. c1880s. London Missionary Society Edition. Black and white frontispiece with a total of 50 engraved illustrations throughout. Green cloth covered boards stamped in black - 'A Presentation Copy London Missionary Society' with gilt background and raised lettering on the upper right hand corner, gilt lettered..... More
London. China Inland Mission. 1901. 2nd Edition. 4 black & white photographic plates, green cloth covered boards lettered in black, the author's name has been neatly written in ink on the spine. Text block edges and endpapers lightly browned, some light foxing to plates and the pages opposite them but..... More
New York. American Tract Society. c1848. 8 title-page vignettes and 8 full-page engravings. Small book containing 8 stories from the American Tract Society's issued previously and issued here as a bound collection. One issue has 12pp and the remaining seven issues contain 16pp each. Blind stamped publisher's brown cloth worn..... More
London. China Inland Mission. 1931. 1st Edition. Black and white frontispiece, a map of China and a further 13 black and white photo illustrations. Stiffened teal coloured wrappers, with a coloured illustration of a picture of 'The Bluff at Sunset', by Miss M.A. Orr-Ewing on the upper front wrapper, the..... More
London. Snow. 1857. Fifth thousand. Folding map of the maritime provinces of China, xv + 584pp, appendix, evenly browned throughout, St Cuthbert's Society Durham bookplate front pastedown, hinges split, final gathering loosening. Original blind stamped cloth worn with loss at corners and head and tail of spine, cloth at head..... More
London. Church Missionary Society. 1903. 1st Edition. Numerous black and white illustrations and photographs throughout the text. Blue cloth stamped and lettered in black, spine sunned, head and tail starting to fray, corners bumped with slight discolouration to the edges. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1903, vi + 72pp. Internally a...... More
New York. Fleming H. Revell Company. 1896. 2nd edition with corrections & supplement. 520pp. From the library of the Moody Bible Institute with red cloth covered boards and a new buckram spine with a modern printed paper label. One gathering nearly loose. The edges and corners of the boards are..... More
New York. Fleming H. Revell Company. 1912. 1st American edition. 12 hand-coloured photgraphic plates, black & white portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard and 33 toned photo-illustrations. Original green cloth covered boards, blind stamped title within a border on upper front board and lettered in gilt on the spine. faint scattered foxing..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. Paternoster Row. 1884. Folding map of the provinces of Shantung and Chih-li, black and white frontispiece and 17 illustrations throughout the text. 227pp, plus 12 pages of illustrated advertisements for the Religious Tract Society's list of new illustrated books. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt. The..... More
Shanghai. American Presbyterian Mission Press. 1878. Pebbled cloth covered boards, with title label pasted down. pp48. Front label chipped with loss to the upper edge, some faint age browning to text block but in good order. 21.3 x 12.8cm A Christian based analysis of Ancestral worship - Filial piety -..... More
