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Item #2331954 Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands...

Ellis, William T.

Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ (Salesman's Dummy)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: L.T. Myers, 1914. Hard Cover.

Saleman's dummy with sales instructions pamphlet bound in. Boards soiled, rear hinge starting.

430 pp. A salesman's dummy copy of a biography of the athlete turned evangelist William Ashley Sunday. Sunday's preaching is believed to have played a part in the adoption of.....

Price: $30.00

Item #2331077 Sammelband of Ten Mid-18th Century London Sermons: A Sermon Preach'd before the...

George, William; Watts, George; Ayscough, Francis; Thomas, Lord Bishop of Oxford; Isaac, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.; Bearcroft, Philip; Thomas, John; Ashburnham, William; Magill, Moses

Sammelband of Ten Mid-18th Century London Sermons: A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margaret's Westminster, on Monday, May 29, 1732.; A Sermon Preached before the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America; at Their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Bridget, alias St. Bride, in Fleetstreet, London: on Thursday, March 18. 1735.; A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable the House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday January the 30th 1735/6. Being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles I.; A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at Their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Mary-Le-Bow, on Friday, February 20. 1740-1.; A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, May 6, 1742.; A Sermon Preached before His Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, President; and the Governors of the London Infirmary, in Goodman's-Fields, for the Relief of Sick and Diseased Manufacturers, and Seamen in Merchant-Service, &c. at the Parish Church of St. Mary's-le-Bow, on Friday, March 25, 1743. The Duty and Advantages of Encouraging Public Infirmaries.; A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, on Wednesday April 11, 1744, Being the Day Appointed by His Majesty's Royal Proclamation for a General Fast.; A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Westminster on Wednesday, January 30. 1744. Being the Day Appointed to Be Observed as the Day of the Martyrdom of King Charles I.; A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Tuesday, November 5, 1745.; A Sermon Preached in the Parish-Church of St. Mary, Dublin; on Thursday, October 9, 1746. Being the Day Appointed for a General Thanksgiving for the Suppression of the Late Unnatural Rebellion in Great Britain.

London: J. Tonson / M. Downing / T. Osborne; A. Peisley / J. and H. Pemberton / James Crokatt / Henry Woodfall / Edward Owen / W. Innys / John Jolliffe / J. Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1732. Full-Leather.

Owned by a distant.....

Price: $1,500.00 save 15% $1,275.00

Item #2330562 Journal of the Life of Joseph Hoag, an Eminent Minister of the Gospel, in the...

Hoag, Joseph

Journal of the Life of Joseph Hoag, an Eminent Minister of the Gospel, in the Society of Friends. [Quakers]

Philadelphia: Press of Wm. H. Pile's Sons, 1909. Revised Edition. Hard Cover.

1909 revised edition. The personal copy of Mary E. Hoag, a descendant of Joseph, her name in ink on front endpaper and a magazine article entitled A Brief Account of Joseph Hoag's Family mounted on the final pages.....

Price: $50.00

Kellaway, William

The New England Company, 1649-1776: Missionary Society to the American Indians

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1962. First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition. One inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel and jacket spine head, jacket edges rubbed.

303 pp. The New England Company is the oldest English Protestant missionary society. It was founded in 1649.....

Price: $75.00

Item #2299198 Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of a Young British Captive; William B....

Lighton, William B.

Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of a Young British Captive; William B. Lighton. (Minister of the Gospel.) Who Was a Soldier, Bound for Life in the British Army and in Which is Contained an Account of Its Character, and the Barbarous Method Practised in Punishing Their Soldiers; with an Interesting Account of His Escape from His Regime, His Capture, Imprisonment, Trial, and Condemnation to Death; His Subsequent Sufferings, and Final Escape from Captivity, and from the British Dominions.

Concord, N.Y. Lighton, William B., 1836. Revised Edition. Small Hard Cover.

Revised edition. Light wear to spine head and to spine base, pencil note on front free endpaper, general light wear.

228 pp. Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of a Young British Captive; William B. Lighton. (Minister of the.....

Price: $75.00 save 15% $63.75

Item #2331306 The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (France and England in...

Parkman, Francis

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (France and England in North America, Part Second.) (Francis Parkman's Works. New Library Edition. Vol. II.)

Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1970. Reissue. Hard Cover.

Reissue. Jacket lightly rubbed and toned, small sticker on jacket spine, a couple faint smudges on fore edge.

xvii, [1], 586 pp. An account of the Society of Jesus in Canadian history, detailing their attempts to convert Native Americans to Christianity.....

Price: $15.00

Seaver, George

David Livingstone: His Life and Letters

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Hard Cover.

Jacket edges rubbed with some small tears, front jacket flap price-clipped. Slightly musty, boards soiled.

650 pp. The definitive biography of the great missionary-explorer-scientist who opened up Africa.

Price: $10.00

Item #2294787 Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills, Late Missionary to the South Western Section...

Spring, Gardiner

Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills, Late Missionary to the South Western Section of the United States, and Agent of the American Colonization Society, Deputed to Explore the Coast of Africa [Reverend]

New York: The New-York Evangelical Missionary Society, 1820. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition (Sabin 89771). Former library copy - usual marks. Rebound.

247 pp. "Samuel John Mills Jr. (April 12, 1783 – June 16, 1818) was an American preacher and missionary from Connecticut. He is known for contributing to.....

Price: $125.00

Stanley, Henry Morton; Stanley, Dorothy (Editor)

The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Front hinge weakening.

xvii, 551 pp. With 16 photogravures and a map. Henry Morton Stanley, in full Sir Henry Morton Stanley, original name John Rowlands, Congolese byname Bula Matari (“Breaker of Rocks”), (born January 28, 1841.....

Price: $75.00

Item #2330468 History of the Jesuits: from the Foundation of Their Society to Its Suppression by...

Steinmetz, Andrew

History of the Jesuits: from the Foundation of Their Society to Its Suppression by Pope Clement XIV.; Their Missions Throughout the World; Their Educational System and Literature; with Their Revival and Present State., in Two Volumes.

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition. Corners exposed, boards a bit rubbed, edges and front and end matter foxed with scattered light foxing throughout, pencil notes on front and rear blanks of both volumes.

xi, 468; 479 pp., 32-page publisher catalog bound in.....

Price: $375.00

Item #2294762 The Missionary's Daughter; A Memoir of Lucy Goodale Thurston of the Sandwich...

Thurston, Lucy Goodale

The Missionary's Daughter; A Memoir of Lucy Goodale Thurston of the Sandwich Islands

New York: American Tract Society, 1842. Small Hard Cover.

Board corners lightly rubbed, pages lightly foxed.

219, 3 pp. "Asa Thurston (October 12, 1787 – March 11, 1868) and Lucy Goodale Thurston (October 29, 1795 – October 13, 1876) were in the first company of American Christian missionaries to the.....

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Item #2129775 The Light appearing more and more towards the perfect Day. or, A farther Discovery...

Whitfield, Henry; Caryl, Joseph; Mayhow [Mayhew], Thomas; Eliot, John

The Light appearing more and more towards the perfect Day. or, A farther Discovery of the present state of the Indians in New-England, Concerning the Progresse of the Gospel amongst them. Manifested by Letters from such as preacht to them there. (Sabin's Reprints, Quarto Series. No. III.)

New York: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin / [Joel] Munsell, 1865. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.

Limited edition, hand numbered 44 and initialed by Joseph Sabin. One of 50 copies. Binding weakening, several gatherings loose.

[viii], 46 pp. 4to. 1865 reissue of 1651 original. Sabin 103688: 'Contains a letter from Thomas Mayhew.....

Price: $175.00 save 30% $122.50