Religion

  • [CHAPBOOK] Memoir of Elizabeth

    # 16003

    AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

    [CHAPBOOK] Memoir of Elizabeth

    Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [c.1850]. Duodecimo (110 x 70 mm), woodcut illustration to upper wrapper; 16 pp, woodcut illustration at head of text; lower wrapper with ‘A Hymn’; wrappers foxed and re-stitched; contents with scattered foxing.

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  • The negro : what is his ethnological status? Is he the progeny of Ham? Is he a descendant of Adam and Eve? Has he a soul? Or is he a beast in God's nomenclature? What is his status as fixed by God in creation? What is his relation to the white race?

    # 15296

    "ARIEL" [PAYNE, Buckner H.]

    The negro : what is his ethnological status? Is he the progeny of Ham? Is he a descendant of Adam and Eve? Has he a soul? Or is he a beast in God’s nomenclature? What is his status as fixed by God in creation? What is his relation to the white race?

    Cincinnati : Published for the Proprietor, 1867. Second edition. Octavo, original printed green wrappers, 48 pp; a near fine copy. Colonel Buckner H. Payne (1799-1889) was an American clergyman, publisher and racist pamphleteer. Under the pseudonym of Ariel, Payne authored a racist pamphlet, offering a counter-argument to the Curse of Ham, suggesting instead that blacks did …

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  • The fifty-first annual report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches (the Indian home mission to the Santals) for the year 1917 - 1918.

    # 15332

    The fifty-first annual report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches (the Indian home mission to the Santals) for the year 1917 – 1918.

    Dukma [India] : Santal Mission of the Northern Churches, 1919. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. iv; 72, pale foxing, a very good copy. Scarce printing from Eastern India recording a year’s activities of a Norwegian missionary society.

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  • Budh Gaya

    # 15385

    INDIA. STATE RAILWAYS DEPARTMENT.

    Budh Gaya

    s.l. : Government of India, State Railways Department, [c.1930]. Narrow folio, folding to 245 x 115 mm, pictorial wrappers, 10 pp, illustrations, folding map; a very good copy. A scarce early tourist guide to Budh Gaya, “the most famous and most interesting of all sacred sites of the Buddhists.” (p.1)

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  • Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide,

    # 14673

    Church of England. Diocese of Adelaide.

    Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide,

    by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide, on Thursday, May 24, 1849 … Adelaide : Printed by George Dehane, King William Street, 1849. Quarto, printed wrappers, 6 pp, mild vertical fold line and some corner creasing; ex Webster Collection, with small red stamp and manuscript collection number (2657) to last page; a good copy.  Ferguson, 5160. …

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  • Den første Kamp om den apostolske Troesbekjendelses Oprindelse.

    # 10436

    MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887); [LAURENTIUS VALLA]

    Den første Kamp om den apostolske Troesbekjendelses Oprindelse.

    / Laurentius Valla – Konciliet i Florens. [=The first dispute over the origin of the Apostles’ Creed. Laurentius Valla – The Council of Florence]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1875. First edition. Octavo, contemporary half leather over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, frontispiece portrait of Laurentius Valla, pp 268, 73, mild water stain to …

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  • [MISSIONS] Twelve disciples in brown

    # 11819

    GUY, A.W.

    [MISSIONS] Twelve disciples in brown

    Melbourne, Vic. : S. John Bacon, [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial stiff wrappers, 55 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Biographical sketches of Christian converts in Papua New Guinea, written by an Australasian Wesleyan Methodist missionary.

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  • Parsons or pumps?

    # 11904

    NICHOLSON, James B. (editor)]

    Parsons or pumps?

    Also titled: A souvenir. Sydney : The Central Press Pty. Ltd., [between 1939 and 1945]. Duodecimo, original card wallet with illustration of a boomerang and printed information for postal use, staple bound, pp 79, [1], a very good copy.  A Christian publication distributed to Australian soldiers during World War II.  “If you are sending this …

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  • [MISSIONS] Old Sefanaia, the Fijian herald / by an old friend of his.

    # 11623

    "OLD FRIEND OF HIS"

    [MISSIONS] Old Sefanaia, the Fijian herald / by an old friend of his.

    London : C.H. Kelly, n.d. [c.1898]. Small octavo, original decorated cloth boards (rubbed), front free-endpaper with a school prize inscription dated 1898, 64 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Scarce. The story of Sefanaia Mbilavuthu, told by an anonymous Methodist missionary. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of …

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  • [FIJIAN; MISSIONARY] Ai tukutuku kei vulagi-lako : a ya nai tukutuku ni nona lako mai na vuravura o

    # 10443

    BUNYAN, John

    [FIJIAN; MISSIONARY] Ai tukutuku kei vulagi-lako : a ya nai tukutuku ni nona lako mai na vuravura o

    qo ki na vuravura ena muri mai : sa volai me vaka sa dua na tadra / e vola taumada ko misa Joni Puniyani. [The Pilgrim’s progress. Fijian]. Londoni, E Peritani, 1910. Octavo, original blind blocked black cloth boards, a little insect damage at top of front hinge, frontispiece portrait of John Bunyan, 224 pp, illustrated …

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  • [NEW AUSTRALIA] Nya Australien : där socialismen misslyckats

    # 9338

    GRAHAME, Stewart

    [NEW AUSTRALIA] Nya Australien : där socialismen misslyckats

    Stockholm : Ehrnfried Nybergs Boktryckeri, 1914. Royal octavo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 30 pp, illustrated, a very good copy of this account of the Australian socialist experiment in Paraguay. Text in Swedish. Translation of: New Australia, where Socialism has failed : the story of a South American colony. Originally published: London: H.E. Morgan, [1912?]. …

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