![The Christian Warrior. Vol. I, No. I [caption title]. Benjamin Allen, Thomas G. Allen](/images/noimage.png)
Philadelphia: (Russell & Martien, Printers), Jan. 2, 1828. 8vo, removed, 16 pages. The first number of a short-lived missionary magazine, published for the first seven weekly numbers under this title, subsequently as The Christian Magazine and Clerical Review, publishing weekly through mid-April, then monthly until it ceased publication with issue..... More
New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1862. First edition. 8vo, removed, retaining original printed front wrapper, 32 pages. Map on the verso of the title. "There are educated young men, who can no longer tolerate the absurdities of Hindu philosophy, and who regard Mohammedism, Parsiism and the Gospel as standing..... More
Boston: Crocker & Brewster [which becomes: Published by the Board], 1838-1853. 20 nos., 8vo, original printed wrappers on all numbers. A small broken run of the board's monthly serial, with much of interest regarding missions around the world. 1838: May. 1840: January. 1846: January. 1847: January, April, July, September. 1848..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [ca. 1833-1845?]. First edition, but presumably a later printing. Original black roan spine, marbled boards, 5.88 x 3.75 inches, 195, [1] pages. Frontispiece, illus. An account of missionary work and the eradication of native culture in Tahiti. Separately published as one of a series of three..... More
Philadelphia: Published by the Board, 1849. First edition. 8vo removed, 68 pages. Includes a detailed 28-page chart listing the 514 missionaries, their fields of labor, dates of commission, etc. With much on the opening of California as a new field of opportunity. More
Boston: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1816. First edition. 8vo, removed, 36 pages. On the relative merits of heathens versus infidels and the obvious perils for each condition. Includes a list of the members of the American Board of Commissioners as well as one of Foreign Mission Societies. Old ink..... More
Utica: Curtiss & White, Printers, 1852. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 98 pages. The Episcopal Bishop's trip through to England, in exhaustive detail, with a sub-current of anglophile anxiety running through the text; De Lancey remarks a few occasions marking the first time an American Bishop had delivered an..... More
[Casey, Illinois? n. p.], (1910). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, red lettering, [92] unnumbered pages. 10 inserted plates. An account of the life of a woman usually considered something of a Methodist saint, Lizzie Louvira Johnson (1869-1909), confined to bed in the family home in Casey, Illinois since age..... More
New York: Published jointly by Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, (1921). First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, x, 182 pages. Frontis, 10 plates. A detailed and interesting semi-sociological study of mission work among the immigrants and migrant agricultural workers of the U.S., with attention paid..... More
[San Francisco: n. p., 1896?]. 8vo, unbound, four pages. A fund-raising circular for a recently-established mission "south of the Slot" in San Francisco. "Much is being done in the way of reform work--so much needed in a district honey-combed with saloons." Under the care of Rev. William Ingraham Kip, the..... More
Boston: Printed by Crocker & Brewster, 1826. First edition. 8vo, unbound, stitched as issued, 40 pages, untrimmed. The sermon covers the qualifications needed to serve as a foreign missionary as well as the expected trials; appended are two short charges to the missionaries, from L. Ives Hoadley, from Worcester, Mass...... More
Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin, 1851. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue-green wrappers, 30 pages. A funeral sermon for Goodell (1789-1851), who had begun life as a shoemaker and ended up serving as a missionary to Malta from 1822, bringing with him the first printing press to the island;..... More
New York: Edwin S. Gorham, 1920. An early reprint of the first American edition of this title. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 62 pages. The Australian-born Anglican faith healer made a triumphant debut in America in 1919; his Society of Emmanuel in England would treat patients with both medicine and prayer..... More
Newark [N.J.]: Printed by John Tuttle & Co., 1820. First edition. 8vo, contemporary brown wrappers, 21, [3] pages (final three pages blank). On the need to educate and send forth suitable missionaries. An interesting Newark imprint. American Imprints 1592. More
[N. p. n. p., ca. 1880]. Original photo measuring approx. 3.88 x 2.5 inches on a slightly larger printed mount. Caption title to the image completed in contemporary autograph ink, “Benjamin and Sarah, Village Preacher and Wife. Presented to [Casey Sutphen] by the Children’s Missionary Society of the Lutheran Church.”..... More
![A Mute Appeal on Behalf of Foreign Missions . . . [caption title]. W. B. Jacobs](/pictures/thumb/12302.jpg?v=1465913965)
Chicago: World-Wide Evangelism, [ca. 1885?]. 12mo, unbound leaflet, 4 pages. Illus. Jacobs appears to have been connected with (perhaps the son of) Chicago's B. F. Jacobs, one of the founders of the modern Sunday School movement; W. B. Jacobs here advertises a striking lithograph chart (available for $5, suitable for..... More
Sendai, Japan: Kaneko Press, August, 1899. First edition. Unbound, 7 x 4.5 inches, [3] pages. From the Japanese mission field, the Pennsylvania-born William Edwin Hoy (1858-1927) here sends six stanzas of verse back to the Reformed Church in America, “O Lord! we hear out of the night / Far China’s..... More
Lexington [Kentucky]: Printed and Published by T. T. Skillman, 1815. First Lexington edition. 12mo, original calf, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 308 pages. A nice imprint for one of the great missionary accounts, the posthumous memoirs of this first-wave missionary to India. The Dwight sermon has a separate..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. 12mo, original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women’s mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The..... More
Erie, Pa. Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1871. First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 24 pages. The publication of the following discourses may be regarded as an experiment, on part of the author, to determine whether by *brain* or *brawn* he may best supplement the meagre salary of a Home..... More
New-York: Published by the Society.--Printed by D. Fanshaw, 1820. First edition. 8vo, original printed salmon wrappers, 47, [1] pages. McClelland lauds the indirect benefits of missionary work, noting "it is sometimes my belief, that if ever the learned world enjoy the unspeakable felicity of reading an account of the North..... More
New-London [Conn.]: Printed by Samuel Green, 1821. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 260, 40 pages. An autobiography and poetical miscellany from the popular Irish-born itinerant Methodist preacher Maffitt (1794-1850), a “charismatic preacher of the first order” (ANB) sometimes called “the Beau Brummel of..... More
Bangor [Me.]: E. F. Duren; Samuel S. Smith, Printer, 1838. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 40 pages. A nice Bangor imprint. Maltby draws six points of comparison between primitive and modern missionaries, with an ancillary series on points on funding missions and the justice of returning to the primitive..... More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 465 pages. Of Milburn's ten lectures on romantic-historical aspects of the Midwest, one is "Manna in the Wilderness; or, The Old Preachers and their Preaching." He includes anecdotes of the Moravians, of Peter Cartwright, Francis Asbury..... More
Midnapore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1884. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 8.13 x 5 inches, stitched, [2], 18 pages. An ephemeral treatment in dramatic verse of an episode from the Mahabharata, the courtship of the demon woman Hiiimba and the Pandava Bhima, here done in English by an Indian author..... More
