Religion
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# 36822
GEORGE A. ROGERS
Studio portrait of a Salvation Army couple, Mr. and Mrs Thomas Seabrook. Adelaide, South Australia, circa 1920.
Gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock, 81 x 132 mm; verso wet-stamped ‘Geo. A. Rogers, 120 Rundle St., Opp. Pav. Pictures’, and inscribed ‘To Dear Ada from Tho. and M. Seabrook’; a very sharp image in excellent condition.
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# 36849
DURYEA, Townsend (jun.)
Studio portrait of a clergyman. Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, early 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm; verso with imprint of ‘T. Duryea, By Appointment to H.R.H., Ryan St., Moonta’; both the print and mount are in flawless condition.
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# 36426
MOFFAT, John (1819-1894)
Rev. John Guthrie, Evangelical Church minister, father of the artist Sir James Guthrie : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 73 x 65 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of ‘Lennie / 46 Princes St. / Edinburgh’; verso with fully contemporary inscription in ink ‘Revd. J. Guthrie’, and with the original Scots-Australian owner’s name in pencil ‘McMillan’; both are strong albumen prints with rich …
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![[BALLARAT; CLUNES] Illuminated address presented to Rev. Elder Gray, D.D., minister at Clunes, by the Presbytery of Ballarat, 1902.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/07/21152955/2022_DSFB_4440-300x300.jpg)
# 35494
[GRAY, Elder, 1847-1905]
[BALLARAT; CLUNES] Illuminated address presented to Rev. Elder Gray, D.D., minister at Clunes, by the Presbytery of Ballarat, 1902.
Folio portfolio (405 x 325 mm), full crushed black morocco elaborately gilt (virtually unmarked), front board lettered ‘Presented to Rev. Elder Gray, D.D., by the Presbytery of Ballarat, 1902’; gilt dentelles, inner front board with parchment leaf laid in, bearing the signatures of leading members of the Ballarat Presbytery, including Surman, Milliken, White, Draffin, Crockett, …
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# 35908
[NORMAN, James, 1790-1868] SCOTT, Thomas Hobbes, Archdeacon; HILL, Richard, Rev.; ARTHUR, George, Lieutenant-Governor
Official duplicate correspondence re. reimbursement to the Church Missionary Society in Sydney for Rev. James Norman’s passage to Tasmania from England. February-October, 1829.
[Sydney, NSW, 1829]. Manuscript in ink, [3] pp, foolscap folio bifolium; in the hand of a CMS clerk; being duplicate copies of three letters, comprising: 1. Sydney, 17 February 1829. Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott, to the Rev. Richard Hill of the CMS, Sydney; 2. Sydney, 26 August 1829. Rev. Richard Hill, to Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes …
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![[MISSIONS; AFRICA] Njembo](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/07/15113553/2022_DSFB_4301-300x300.jpg)
# 35469
WEEKS, John H.; STAPLETON, Walter Henry; DODDS, C. J.; STONELAKE, Henry Thomas
[MISSIONS; AFRICA] Njembo
Monsembe : Baptist Missionary Society, 1900. ‘Imprimerie “Hannah Wade”, Baptist Missionary Society, Bolobo, Haut Congo, État Indépendant du Congo’ (title page verso). Small octavo (174 x 121 mm), original pebbled red cloth over boards, upper board with stamped lettering and decoration in black; front pastedown with pencilled name of early owner Charles W. Carter, pp 79; …
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# 33404
HALE, Mathew Blagden (1811-1895)
The Aborigines of Australia, being an account of the institution for their education at Poonindie, South Australia.
Founded in 1850 by the Ven. Archdeacon Hale, a Missionary of S.P.G. / by the Right Rev. Bishop Hale. Published under the direction of the Tract Committee. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1889]. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), original pictorial green cloth over boards (rubbed, corners bumped), upper board lettered in gilt …
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# 35272
Hermannsburg celebrations, 6-8 September 2002.
The people of Hermannsburg extend a warm welcome to you to join us in celebrating 125 years since the Lutheran Missionaries first arrived in Hermannsburg; 20 years since our land was handed back to us as the traditional owners; 100 years since the birth of Albert Namatjira. [Hermannsburg, NT : Ntaria Council, 2002]. Octavo (210 …
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![[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] In wild New Britain : the story of Benjamin Danks, pioneer missionary, from his diary.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/05/07134201/2022_DSFB_2795-300x300.jpg)
# 34529
DANKS, Benjamin (1853-1921); DEANE, Wallace (1878-1952) (editor)
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] In wild New Britain : the story of Benjamin Danks, pioneer missionary, from his diary.
/ Edited by Wallace Deane … with foreword by Brig.-Gen. T. Griffiths …. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1933. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards (flecked), spine lettered in black (heavily faded, ends a little frayed); pp xii, 293, [1], with numerous b/w photographic plates; binding firm; edges with spotting; …
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# 16694
[WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY]; TURNER, Nathaniel; SIMPSON, William
Two manuscript letters containing reports on the Wesleyan Missionary Society in Tasmania, 1843.
Two entire letters sent from Hobart Town to London, both written in a neat secretarial hand on 3 sides of one folded folio sheet, addressed to ‘The General Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate Street within, London’, stamped in red and dated 1843; the address panels are annotated by the sender ‘VDL Minutes No. …
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![[MELBOURNE] Illuminated address for Charles Rennie Esq., presented by the minister and parishioners of the Presbyterian Church, Brighton. October, 1886.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/03/11120917/2022_DSFB_1372-300x300.jpg)
# 34558
[RENNIE, Charles, 1848-1930]
[MELBOURNE] Illuminated address for Charles Rennie Esq., presented by the minister and parishioners of the Presbyterian Church, Brighton. October, 1886.
Large folio portfolio (490 x 390 mm), full crushed red morocco elaborately gilt (lightly scuffed, worn at corners and spine ends), front board lettered ‘To Charles Rennie, Esq. / Presbyterian Church, Brighton, October 12th 1886’; gilt dentelles and silk-lined inner front board; the illuminated address itself, expressing the gratitude of ‘the Elders, Managers, Members and …
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# 34107
Photographer unknown. [KINGSMILL, Charles, Rev. Canon]
A woman and her dog posing in front of a kangaroo-skin backdrop. Goulburn, New South Wales, circa 1905.
Silver gelatin print photograph, 65 x 100 mm; printed on postcard stock (89 x 139 mm); a brief message in ink on the front of the card – no doubt in the hand of the woman in the photograph – reads: ‘I find I can’t get round this evening. So sorry – love, A. S.’; …
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![Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/07/03144202/2020_DSFB_4720-300x300.jpg)
# 26492
JONES, William (printer)
Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.
Sydney : [William] Jones, Printer, Bridge-street, [circa 1835]. Pair of broadsides, each 450 x 390 mm, printed on letterpress; both examples with an old central horizontal fold and toning, the Morning Prayer sheet with some insect damage around the fold and at top right corner (no loss of text); both unmounted. These rare companion broadsides were …
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# 34527
WEBB, T. T.
The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.
/ Ninth Methodist Laymen’s Memorial Lecture delivered by T.T. Webb, Wesley Church, Monday 26th March 1934. [Melbourne] : Methodist Laymen’s Missionary Movement, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers, stapled; pp 39, map; scattered foxing.
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![[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso nimo buaraigo gedaro nimo kowitorai dubu nou wade overa : Mataio ra Mareko ra Luka ra Ioane nei tau giuwodoirumo](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/10123123/2021_DSFB_8930-242x300.jpg)
# 33291
British and Foreign Bible Society. Commonwealth of Australia Council
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso nimo buaraigo gedaro nimo kowitorai dubu nou wade overa : Mataio ra Mareko ra Luka ra Ioane nei tau giuwodoirumo
[=”The four Gospels in Kiwai, Fly Delta, Papua”]. [Sydney?] : Commonwealth of Australia Council of the British & Foreign Bible Society, 1947. Duodecimo, original dark green cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt and with ‘KIWAI Gospels’ in ms. in white ink, pp iii, 393; endpapers with offsetting, but a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection …
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# 33507
PULMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO [PULMAN, Elizabeth]
Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted in bottom margin ‘Photographed by G. Pulman [i.e. Elizabeth Pulman], Auckland’; verso blank; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition. ‘John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898) was an Anglican priest who became the second Bishop of Melanesia and then the second Master of Selwyn …