Religion

# 15508

BESANT, Annie; COOPER-OAKLEY, I. (attrib.)

Theosophical gleanings, or, notes on the “Secret Doctrine”

Studies in Theosophy 1. Issued by the Indian Section of the Theosophical Society for free distribution to its members. Madras : printed by Thompson and Co., 1893. Octavo, printed wrappers (dusty, loss to lower panel), pp. ii; 57; [3], diagrams, light foxing, some finger marks. Madam Blavatsky’s ‘Secret Doctrine’ was first published in 1888 and …

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# 31123

PRESTON, Robert

Communion to the trees : third morning communion : the Essene Gospel of Peace : book III

Translated by E.B. Szekely. Illuminated by Robert Preston. Townsville and Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Oblong folio (23 x 47cm), gilt-lettered cloth in gilt-lettered matching slipcase, pp. [24], illustrated. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this out of series). Note : this book was bound in a variety of different coloured cloths, the copy which you order …

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# 30757

LISTER-TURNER, R. and J. B. CLARK (translators)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ita eda lohiabada bona hahemauri Iesu Keriso ena taravatu matamata.

[=The New Testament in Motu]. Cover title: Taravatu Matamata. London British and Foreign Bible Society, 1935. First edition. Small octavo (170 mm), black cloth limp covers (a few light marks) with stamped lettering to front, pp 510; a near fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside front …

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# 30393

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso eda Lohiabada Bona eda Hahemauri Tauna ena Taravatu Matamatana.

[=The New Testament in Motu]. London : The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1959. Small octavo (175 x 125 mm), publisher’s black cloth over boards lettered in gilt, edges stained red, pp 528; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu …

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# 30096

"J M"

St. John’s Canberra

Linocut, 130 x 105 mm (image), 146 x 113 mm (sheet), captioned and initialled in pencil by the artist at lower margin ‘St. John’s Canberra / J M’; in very good condition, archivally matted; with a loosely preserved fully contemporary typed note, 150 x 120 mm, containing what is clearly an eyewitness account of a visit …

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# 28334

PETELIN, Stanko (author); BRESKVAR, Silvo (illustrator)

[MISSIONS; JAPAN] Japonska

Domžale [Ljubljana] : “Unio Cleri” Misijonska tiskarna [Missionary Press], 1936. Series: “Unio Cleri” Miss. pro Jugoslavia, IX. Octavo (180 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned and lightly foxed), staple bound; 56 pp, 3 maps (one double-page); clean throughout, a good copy; with an inserted original mimeographed advertisement for the Missionary Press (toning and pale foxing). A …

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# 29696

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 3 Teil.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses 1923. Part 3. First edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 52. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (detached) with illustrated front by Lina Burger and illustrated advertisement on rear for Das Kinderblatt (the Mission’s newspaper for children), pp 20, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good. …

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# 29693

KEYSSER, Christian (1877-1961)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sane, der letzte Wasahäuptling

[=Sana, the last Wasa chief]. Palmer, Iowa : Missions-Hilfsverein, 1923. Series: Die offene Tür in Neu-Guinea, Nummer 5. Octavo (222 x 145 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (a little sunned at edges), stapled; pp 28, with several full-page photographic illustrations (including a portrait of Pastor Johann Flierl), lower wrapper with map; text in German, in Fraktur; …

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# 27390

[OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul]. BIBBY, Joseph (editor)

[OUTHWAITE]. Bibby’s Annual; 1920-21

Liverpool: J. Bibby and Sons, 1920. Folio, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), pp. 64, illustrated. Theosophical periodical edited by the English Christian industrialist, Joseph Biddy (1851 -1940). Includes many illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a depiction of Admirable Sir David Beatty reading the terms of the Armistice to the German delegates in the fore-cabin of the H.M.S. …

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# 29217

FLIERL, Johann (1858-1947)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Wie ich Missionar wurde und meinen Weg nach Australien und Deutsch-Neuguinea fand.

[=How I became a missionary and found my way to Australia and New Guinea]. Neuendettelsau : Verlag des Missionshauses, 1910. Second edition. Series: Neuendettelsau Verlag des Missionshauses Nr. 13. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original pictorial pink wrappers (a little darkened), stapled; pp 32, with a photographic frontispiece portrait of Flierl; text in German, in …

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# 27241

KEYSSER, Christian (1877-1961)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ankunft und Anfangseindrücke in Neu-Guinea.

[=Arrival in and first impressions of New Guinea]. Palmer, Iowa : Missions-Hilfsverein, 1923. Series: Die offene Tür in Neu-Guinea, Nummer 2. Octavo (222 x 147 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (chipped at top corner) with original owner’s name Bodensieck to front, stapled; pp 16, with several full-page photographic illustrations, lower wrapper with map; text in German, …

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# 26915

STONE-WIGG, Montagu, Right Reverend

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.

By the Right Rev. Montagu John Stone-Wigg, M.A. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1898-1909). With later additions by the Right Rev. Henry Newton, D.D. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1922- ). Sydney : Australian Board of Missions, 1933. Second edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly worn, pp 76, photographic frontispiece and 3 full-page photographic illustrations, full-page …

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# 26228

[Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church]

Twelfth Report of the Wesleyan Home Missions in Victoria, for the year ending September, 1886,

with an Account of Receipts and Expenditure. At head of title: Home Missions. Melbourne : Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, printers, [1886]. Octavo (212 x 137 mm), original printed green wrappers (lightly foxed), 38 pp; clean throughout, a very good copy. Includes reports from the Wesleyan Mission stations at Pakenham, Blackwood, Elmore, Yielima, Swan Hill, Chiltern, …

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# 25797

METHODIST CHURCH (NEW GUINEA)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] A Methodist hymn book in pidjin English for use in mission services held for indentured labourers.

Cover title: A Metodist him buk. Malakuna, Rabaul : Printed and published by the Methodist Mission, 1932. First edition (?). Duodecimo (155 x 105 mm), original printed brown wrappers (stained, paper loss along spine), original stitch binding (loosened), pp [4], 12; leaves detached from wrappers, but contents complete; (the substantially contents from a second copy …

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# 24589

GAWLER, George (1795-1869)

[ZIONISM] The emancipation of the Jews, indispensable for the maintenance of the Protestant profession of the Empire ; and most entitled to the support of the British Nation.

London : T. and W. Boone, New Bond Street, 1847. Octavo, disbound, pp iv, 30; title with offsetting at corners and left margin, else a very good copy. Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler (1795-1869) served as the second Governor of South Australia from October 1838 until May 1841. After his retirement in 1841, Gawler returned to England and devoted himself …

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# 25188

WEST, Thomas, Rev.

Ten years in south-central Polynesia : being reminiscences of a personal mission to the Friendly Islands and their dependencies.

London : James Nisbet & Co., 1865. Octavo, original blind blocked green cloth over boards (rubbed), spine with gilt lettering and ornament, hinges cracked, verso of frontispiece with presentation inscription ‘Presented to Master Percy Lone for diligence in collecting for Wesleyan Missions, Christmas 1871’, and beneath it a later ownership inscription dated 1957; frontispiece lithographed …

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