Religion

  • Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    # 46034

    CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    [London : CMS, c.1920]. Wooden box, 140 x 70 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on one side illustrated with peoples from CMS missions around the world and worded: CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SPHERES OF WORK: AFRICA, INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA, JAPAN, PALESTINE, EGYPT, THE SUDAN, PERSIA ETC. / METHODS: EVANGELISTIC, PASTORAL, EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, INDUSTRIAL, ITINERATING, TRANSLATIONAL …

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  • Studio portrait of James Moorhouse, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne 1876-1886. London, circa 1876.

    # 45920

    FRY, George

    Studio portrait of James Moorhouse, Anglican Bishop of Melbourne 1876-1886. London, circa 1876.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘George Fry, Artist & Photographer. Opalotype Studio, 12 Lower Seymour St., Portman Square, W.’; the print has a couple of tiny ink marks near the top edge, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. James …

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  • Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.

    # 45879

    EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS

    Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has scattered foxing.

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  • [PRESBYTERIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES] Prospectus of a weekly paper, to be entitled "The Colonist."

    # 46200

    LANG, George Dunmore (et al)

    [PRESBYTERIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES] Prospectus of a weekly paper, to be entitled “The Colonist.”

    [Caption title]. Beneath title: “Union is Strength”. Sydney : Printed by F. Mason, [1863]. Broadside (250 x 203 mm), lithograph printed recto only on blue paper; very mild sunning and wear at edges, but a near fine copy. Ferguson, 14446 This obscure prospectus for a Sydney newspaper aimed at the Presbyterian readership in New South Wales …

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  • [ELCHO ISLAND] My mother, the land

    # 46138

    YULE, Ian R.

    [ELCHO ISLAND] My mother, the land

    / edited by Ian R. Yule. Galiwin’ku, N.T. : Christian Action Group, Galiwin’ku Parish, Uniting Church in Australia, in association with Action for World Development, 1980. Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper lightly marked, lower wrapper with previous owner’s annotations); pp. 43, b/w photographic and line-drawn illustrations; internally very good. ‘A …

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  • A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.

    # 38364

    [THOMAS, Antoine, 1644-1709]

    A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.

    London : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCIII [1703]. Octavo (155 mm), contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; pp [28], [4 blank], 71, [1]; a few leaves with pale staining; early manuscript ex libris of the Holy Cross Abbey Library; housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. English translation of Brevis relatio eorū quæ spectant ad declarationem …

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  • Hyacinthe de Bougainville : autograph letter, signed, written from the harbour of Macao in 1825 during his circumnavigation in the "Thétis".

    # 29401

    BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, Baron de (1781-1846)

    Hyacinthe de Bougainville : autograph letter, signed, written from the harbour of Macao in 1825 during his circumnavigation in the “Thétis”.

    Manuscript in brown ink, folio, 1 page; headed ‘Rade de Macao, ce 1er Janvier 1825’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient and concerns the Lazarist missionary, Lamiot; old vertical and horizontal folds (minor tears at the ends), roughened at top and bottom edges, else clean and complete, with red wax seals preserved. Rare, unpublished …

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  • Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell'anno 1587.

    # 42307

    Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606) et al.

    Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell’anno 1587.

    Con l’arrivo de’ Signori Giapponesi nell’India. Cavati dalle lettere della Compagnia di Giesù. Ricevute il mese d’ Ottobre 1588. Con licentia de’ superiori. In Venetia, appresso i Gioliti. 1588. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), modern quarter red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt ‘AVVISI DELLA CINA’; new …

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  • Studio portrait of a young man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his banjo and tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.

    # 45875

    TASMA

    Studio portrait of a young man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his banjo and tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.

    Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘TASMA 176 King Street, Newton, Sydney’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition.

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  • John Stuart Blackie, classical scholar : autograph envelope with inscription in New Testament Greek. Edinburgh, June 1882.

    # 45859

    BLACKIE, John Stuart (1809-1895)

    John Stuart Blackie, classical scholar : autograph envelope with inscription in New Testament Greek. Edinburgh, June 1882.

    Mailing envelope, 95 x 120 mm, front addressed in ink in the hand of John Stuart Blackie to ‘J. Christie Esq., 14 Florence Place, Stanley Street, Glasgow’, with accompanying inscription in Greek at lower left ἀληθεύω εν ἀγάπη (=”I speak the truth in love”) – an allusion to Ephesians 4:15 – and endorsed twice in pencil in …

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  • [SHANGHAI MISSION IMPRINT] Selected poems of Paul DeWitt Twinem : special days, student days, soldier days, missionary days, courtship days.

    # 46013

    TWINEM, Paul DeWitt (1894-1923)

    [SHANGHAI MISSION IMPRINT] Selected poems of Paul DeWitt Twinem : special days, student days, soldier days, missionary days, courtship days.

    Cover title: Poems by Paul DeWitt Twinem : Printed in Memoriam. Shanghai : printed by The Presbyterian Mission Press [for Mary Dorothy Fine Twinem], 1929. Octavo (20 x 135 mm), original purple silk over boards, upper board with title in English and Chinese in gilt; frontispiece half-tone photographic portrait of poet and missionary Paul deWitt …

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  • Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest reliably datable printed text

    # 45671

    EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)

    Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest reliably datable printed text

    Japan : Nara period [764 – 770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese Cypress), with original white gesso wash, separate turned katsura wood finial (small edge chips to the rings), overall height 220 mm; the cavity of the pagoda containing the original printed dhāraṇī (55 x 458 mm) with 31 lines of …

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  • La storia della chiesa del Giappone

    # 42446

    CRASSET, Jean

    La storia della chiesa del Giappone

    del rev. Padre Giovanni Crasset della Compagnia di Gesù. Traduzione dal francese di Selvaggio Canturani. Venice : Baglioni, 1737. Four volumes, duodecimo, uniform 19th-century bindings of quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; with 6 folding copper-engraved plates; a very fine set. Second Italian edition of Crasset’s history of the …

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  • [ISLAM] De kroon aller koningen, van Bochârie van Djôhor, naar een oud Maleisch Handschrift vertaald door P. P. Roorda van Eijsinga,

    # 45631

    AL-JOHARI [AL-JAUHARI], Bukhari

    [ISLAM] De kroon aller koningen, van Bochârie van Djôhor, naar een oud Maleisch Handschrift vertaald door P. P. Roorda van Eijsinga,

    Hoofdkommies belast met de afdeeling van Inlandsche Zaken, Lid van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Batavia : ter Lands Drukkerij, 1827. Square quarto (205 x 170 mm), contemporary gilt-lettered half morocco over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed and scuffed, leather worn and with backstop reattached, front hinge cracked, rear hinge almost completely split); …

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  • [INCUNABLE] A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

    # 45670

    GUTENBERG, Johannes (ca. 1398-1468) (printer)

    [INCUNABLE] A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible

    [Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55]. Single folio leaf. 390 x 286 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letter rubricated in red; light foxing, ox head watermark clearly visible at the centre of the leaf, neat paper reinforcement along margin (probably from when …

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  • Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium ...

    # 42373

    COLLADO, Diego (d. 1638 or 1641)

    Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium …

    Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [bound with] Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae linguae … Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [and bound with] Niffon no Cotōbani yô confesion, … [= modus confitendi et examinandi poenitentem Japonensem, formula suamet lingua Japonica … ] Romae typis & impensis Sacr. …

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