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Boston, MA: Baptist Missionary Society of Massachusetts, 1820. 15 x 24 cm. Frontispiece engraving of Rev'd James Manning Winchell, A.M. late pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston. Memoir of the death of Mrs. Tamma Winchell, Rev. Winchell's widow. Tribute on death of Rev. Edward W. Wheelock, who, dying of consumption, left Rangoon for Calcutta, and died at sea. Letter from Mrs. Colman on the Burman Mission, mournfully relates last days of Rev. Wheelock. In letter to her sister she chides her for not answering for ""nine long months"" and goes on to tell her about revival of Bhuddism in Burma, and building of pagodas. Paper periodical, edges frayed, page corners curled, poor. . Catalogs: Religious/Missionary.

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Missionary Society, 1807. 14 x 23 cm. Religious and interesting communications calculated to edify Christians and inform the rising generation; profits of this work are to be applied to the support of Missionaries in the New Settlements and among the Indians of North America. Memoirs of Dr, Witherspoon. The Pious Negro Woman. Edinburgh Society's Mission to Tartary: a letter from Pinkerton in Karass. Group of missionaries crossed the Pod-Kuma, dined with Circassian shepherds, engaged in discussion of the New Testament with Muslim men. Found Tartars ""miserably ignorant"" of Christ and His works. Eulogium on the Late Chancellor Wythe. Paper periodical, pages uncut, edges frayed, rough, poor. . Catalogs: Religious/Missionary.

Boston, MA: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1839. 16 x 24 cm. Report from Syria and the Holy Land, discouraging and daunting task; The Druzes continue to throng our dwellings until they are persecuted by the Maronites. Work in Beyroot. Letter from Broosa (Bursa, Turkey?) among the Armenians and Greeks, burning of missionary books in public bonfire. Report from Borneo of a sea voyage to the mouth of the Sambas river. Six precise and strict Mohammedans, ""apparently honest and sincere followers of the false prophet and his delusions."" Paper periodical, name of ""Miss Sally Howe"" inscribed on cover wrap, very good. . Catalogs: Religious/Missionary.

Brattleboro, VT: The Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1952. 15 x 23 cm. "The Bible in its Homeland"" by Siegfried Friedlieb. ""The Arab Church in Israel"" by Rafiq A. Farah.""Recent Developments in Shari'a Law--the Waqf System"" by J.N.D. Anderson. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Religious/Missionary.

New York, NY: Sunday School Advocate, 1849. 25 x 34 cm. The Morimo, or Bechuana Cannibal. Account of inhabitant of Missionary Station in South Africa relates how he was formerly a cannibal, how he was captured by Morimos, and his mother, his wives, children and servants were killed, cut in pieces, cooked in dishes or roasted on coals, until the last morsel of them was devoured. Provincetown Sabbath School. The Chinese Museum. News about in California. Newspaper. Uncut, very good. . Catalogs: Religious/Missionary.