Foster mrs arnold (24 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. xv 369, 20pp publisher's list, hardback, blue cloth gilt tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait, 7 bw plates, ex-university library with few neat stamps and labels, spine unaffected.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Yn Nyffryn Yr Yangtse by Mrs Arnold Foster is a Welsh-language account of life and travel in the Yangtze Valley of China. It offers observations of the Chinese landscape, towns, people, customs and everyday life, reflecting the authorâs experiences and encounters in the region. The book provides an intriguing glimpse of China through the eyes of a Welsh writer at the end of the nineteenth century. An interesting and relatively unusual Welsh-language work for collectors of Welsh literature, travel writing and China-related history.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1899, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed and darkened to spine and edges. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - presentation plate to front endpaper for fund-raising and private bookplate to front pastedown; toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. …

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, decorative cloth, gilt title to spine. xii, 216pp. With 64 illustrations. 1st edition 1899. A little wear to binding. Presentation page filled in on front free end-paper. Some spotting to fore edge and end-papers. A rather lovely copy. (bs35f).

Orig. pict. Cloth. Zustand: Fine. 64 photos., engravings and drawings, pp.216. Size: Sm. 4to.

1st Edition. Sixty-four black and white illustrations, vii + 216pp. 21 x 16.8cm. Red cloth covered boards sunned on the spine, light general wear to covers, head and tail of spine just starting, endpapers browned, but a very good copy in attractive pictorial boards. Mrs Arnold Foster was a missionary in China with the London Missionary Society. This is her view of China after living there for 18 years in the lead up to the Boxer Rebellion. Notwithstanding the title of the book, she describes events that take place not just in Hankou but also in Beijing, Guangzhou and other parts of China.…

16mo. Size: 13.8 x 10.8 cm. Pp. iv, 16. Printed in Roman and Chinese characters. Original stapled grey wrappers, upper cover printed in black, somewhat stained, chipped along edges, and some corrosion around the staples. A little beginner's guide containing about 400 different Chinese characters. Amy Foster was an English missionary serving in Hankow. Rare, not in Cordier. …

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 216; numerous illustrations throughout including halftone, wood engravings, and drawings; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt; binding slight soiled, spine a touch sunned; all else very good, sound and clean. With a large London Missionary Society presentation slip on front pastedown presenting this copy to a Welsh Sunday School. "Amy Foster (née Jackson) was born on 26 May 1856. She was appointed as a missionary with the London Missionary Society to Hong Kong, and sailed in 1878. She was married to Rev Arnold Foster, also an LMS missionary (Wuchang, China), on 22 June 1882 at Union Church, Hong Kong. Rev Foster was appointed Honorary Missionary to Hankow in 1884. In 1889, they removed to Wuchang and took charge of that station. In February 1900, Mrs Foster opened a Girls' Boarding School. In 1910, Rev Foster was chosen as first member of the Advisory Council for Central China. In 1911, Mrs Foster became a member of the District Committee, continuing to live in Wuchang and taking part in that work until 1918. From 1915 to 1918, Rev Foster was Hon. Pastor of the Hankow Union Church. In 1918, they moved to Kuling, where Rev Foster died on 30 July 1919. Amy Foster died in 1938" (archiveshub).…

5½" x 4½", pp. [2], viii, 184; English entries with Chinese equivalents; original quarter black goat, gilt-stamped on upper cover, gilt fillets on spine; corners bumped, some rubbing along the bottom of the upper cover, but on the whole a very good, sound, and clean copy. First published in 1893. The book was popular and went through five editions by 1916. "This edition has been carefully revised and corrected, the number of words have been increased to about 4,000 and Giles' Romanization has been substituted for Williams'.", not including modern scholarly editions. Amy Foster (née Jackson) "was born on 26 May 1856. She was appointed as a missionary with the London Missionary Society to Hong Kong, and sailed in 1878. She was married to Rev Arnold Foster, also an LMS missionary (Wuchang, China), on 22 June 1882 at Union Church, Hong Kong. Rev Foster was appointed Honorary Missionary to Hankow in 1884. In 1889, they removed to Wuchang and took charge of that station. In February 1900, Mrs Foster opened a Girls' Boarding School. In 1910, Rev Foster was chosen as first member of the Advisory Council for Central China. In 1911, Mrs Foster became a member of the District Committee, continuing to live in Wuchang and taking part in that work until 1918. From 1915 to 1918, Rev Foster was Hon. Pastor of the Hankow Union Church. In 1918, they moved to Kuling, where Rev Foster died on 30 July 1919. Amy Foster died in 1938" (archiveshub). Of this edition Hofstra, Concordia Theological, Dallas Theological, Virginia Tech, and 2 in Germany in OCLC. …