Religion

# 23599

STEVENS, Vernon T. (words & music); GORMAN, Frank W., Rev. (performer)

[SHEET MUSIC] Back to home sweet home

/ Words & music by Vernon T. Stevens. Cover: Sung by Rev. Frank W. Gorman (The Singing Parson) at Fuller’s Vaudeville Theatres. Melbourne : L.F. Collin Pty. Ltd., [c.1920]. Series: Collin’s popular sixpenny edition. Folio, front cover with photographic portrait of Frank Gorman and original owner’s name ‘Vera Bangs’ (light foxing and edge tears), 3 …

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# 24091

E. C. BRIDGMAN MAPS

Missionary map of the world

New York : The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, circa 1900. Map, printed in colour on cotton, measures 32″ x 48″ (82 x 122 cm), old folds as issued, fine condition. Map showing the Presbyterian missions of the world, with a concentration of activity in China, India and Japan. The newly built Trans-Siberian Railway is …

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# 24084

A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.

London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Quarto, pp. 4, single sheet, folded, a little worn. Ephemeral religious printing praising the English armed forces during the Napoleonic Wars.

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# 23775

METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

[NEW GUINEA] Taparoro ana buki bapuna : taparoro ana wona : pana panaeati.

First Catechism and Hymns, translated into the language of Panaeati, Papua. Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., [1918]. Octavo (182 x 123 mm), string bound, original cloth backed printed blue papered boards, 72 pp; a superb copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Copies are recorded in …

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# 23400

LOVELL, David (editor)

[CHRISTIANITY; SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY] Shalom

Caulfield East, Vic. : Published by Cripac Press Pty. Ltd., vol. 1, no. 1, February 7, 1972 – vol. 1, no. 12, July 31, 1972 (but missing vol. 1, no. 9). Eleven issues, quarto, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, illustrated, all in fine condition. An obscure Melbourne fortnightly periodical published between 1972 and 1973, Shalom examined current …

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# 22622

DRUMMOND, H. N.

[NORFOLK ISLAND; MISSIONS] John Coleridge Patteson : an account of his death at Nakapu,

and description of S. Barnabas Chapel, Norfolk Island, dedicated to his memory. Cover title: Bishop Patteson : pioneer and martyr. With an account of the Memorial Chapel. Parkstone, U.K. : Ralph & Brown, 1930. Quarto, publisher’s printed card wrappers, a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the inner front wrapper, 45 pp, illustrated; contents clean …

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# 22195

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS (USA)

A Christmas missionary exercise : illustrated with scenes from our Foreign Mission Fields.

Cover title: A Christmas missionary exercise and album. New York : The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1894. Oblong octavo, original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (lightly creased and marked), pp [24], illustrated with numerous half-tone photographic plates of various missions in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Laos, India, Chile, …

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# 21703

CARPENTER, C.H.

A revision of Dr. Wade’s rules for the transliteration of foreign terms into Karen. (Presentation copy)

Rangoon : American Mission Press, C. Bennett, 1875. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (lightly foxed), stitch bound, a presentation copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the upper wrapper ‘M.S. Rice Esq., from C.H. Carpenter’; pp 24; text in English and S’gaw Karen script; internally very clean; a near fine inscribed copy. A rare late nineteenth …

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# 21859

COEREZZA, Rev. M.

[HONG KONG]. Catechetical scenes. Confirmation

Hong Kong : Salesian Catechetical Centre, 1957. Octavo, embossed cloth, twenty lettered cards each accompanied by a pop up diorama illustrating a scene of religious instruction. A charming and scarce Hong Kong imprint.

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# 22137

BURMA BAPTIST MISSIONARY CONVENTION.

The eighteenth annual report of the Burma Baptist Missionary Convention, held at Prome, November 3-5, 1883.

Rangoon : American Baptist Mission Press, F. D. Phinney, Supt., 1883. Octavo, self-wrappers, original stitching, pp 22, with large folding table at rear recording funds allocated to the various missions and ethnic groups; two light vertical fold lines, but a near fine copy.

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# 21642

WESLEY CENTRAL MISSION (MELBOURNE)

[MELBOURNE] Wesley Church Hall, Lonsdale St. : Entertainment by the members of the Princess Mary Club in aid of the Tally Ho Boys’ Farm. May 23rd, 1929.

Miss Suzanne Abbott, Hon. Sec. and Treas. [Melbourne : Wesley Central Mission], 1929. Single sheet, 220 x 136 mm, lithographed printed on both sides in orange and brown ink on thickish textured paper; verso with programme of music and dance pieces, including performers’ names; in fine condition. The Princess Mary Club, housed in a grand …

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# 19290

BUTCHER, Benjamin Thomas (1877-1973)

Papuan Gulf carved wooden figure, circa 1920.

[London? : London Missionary Society?, n.d]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm, original manuscript caption to paper border ‘Curios Papua Butcher’; in very good condition. This important photograph of a Papuan Gulf painted wooden figure with grass fibre tassels was taken by Benjamin Thomas Butcher (1877-1973), who worked as a medical missionary …

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# 20385

DÁVILA GARIBI, J. Ignacio

Dos ilustres prelados de la Iglesia de Guadalajara

: Datos biograficos de los ilmos. y rmos. Sres. lic. D. Francisco Gómez de Mendiola y dr. D. Juan de Santiago y de Leon Garabito. Guadalajara, Spain : Escuela Tip. Salesiana, 1912. Octavo, original printed grey wrappers (chipped and torn along spine), staple bound, pp 28, internally very clean, a good copy. A scarce Guadalajara …

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# 19215

COLQUHOUN, Patrick (1745-1820)

[TRANSPORTATION] Traité sur la police de Londres

contenant le détail des crimes et délits qui se commettent dans cette capitale, et indiquant les moyens de les prévenir….Traduit de l’Anglais sur la sixième édition. Paris : Léopold Collin, 1807. Two volumes octavo, contemporary red half calf over red boards (rubbed), spines with gilt numbers, decoration and stamped title labels, pastedowns and free endpapers …

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# 19148

RUSDEN, H.K. (Henry Keylock)

The week

/ by H.K. Rusden. [Melbourne] : Royal Society of Victoria, 1874. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stitched, 17 pp; illustrated with leaves of plates; a very good copy. Ferguson, 15241. Transcript of a lecture read before the Royal Society of Victoria on 21 December 1874. Rusden’s investigation into the nature of our temporal cycle, the week, is …

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# 18394

Hübner, Johann

Zweymal zwey und fünfzig auserlesene Biblische Historien aus dem Alten und Neuen Testamente, der Jugend zum Besten abgefasset …

Sion : auf Kosten christlicher Eltern für die Jugend, 1786. Duodecimo, contemporary full red calf, upper and lower boards with ornate gilt borders (rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting leather title label lettered in gilt (somewhat faded), front hinge cracked, gold endpapers, first blank with original owner’s inscription in red ink ‘Johannes …

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