hannington james dawson e c (4 Ergebnisse)

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated maroon cloth (dulled and rubbed at spine - otherwise VG). Pp. x + 239 + advts., illus with b&w frontispiece, b&w plates and map (no inscriptions).

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. First Edition First Printing. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF 1888. With numerable illustrations from the Bishop's sketches. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, i-x, 239 pp. plus 20 pp. of publisher's adds. pages. Map at rear of "Eastern Central Africa". Hardcover [publisher's original brown cloth] with gilt lettering and blind tooling on spine and front board. Gilt design on front board. Spine bumped at torn at top, Former Library book w/ usual signs and (small) pale stamps. Binding loose and almost split at p. 129, repair needed. Interior is bright and clean. +++ Includes, for example, the following: Parentage and Childhood / Business and Pleasure / The Turning Point - Ordination - The Great Change / The Beckoning Hand / The First Missionary Journey. Zanzibar to Mpwapwa / The Second Missionary Journey etc. +++ James Hannington (3 September 1847 29 October 1885) was an English Anglican missionary, saint and martyr. He was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa. Educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and ordained in 1874, Hannington became a curate in Sussex in 1875. In 1878 his thoughts were turned to mission work by the murder of two missionaries on the shores of Lake Victoria. Volunteering for service in Uganda with the Church Missionary Society, Hannington sailed in 1882, at the head of a party of six, for Zanzibar, and thence set out for Uganda, but was forced by illness to return to England in 1883. On his recovery he was consecrated bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa (June 1884) and in 1885 reached Lake Victoria, only to be killed with his men within a few days by order of King Mwanga II of Buganda. The story of this journey is given in his own Last Journals, which were published in 1888. His last recorded words were "go tell your master that I have purchased the road to Uganda with my blood", he was 38 years old.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London: Seeley, 1888. 12mo. First edition. Hard cover binding, 239 pp. followed by map of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Maroon silk binding with decorative gold titles and sword entwined with leaves and the words "First Bishop of Equatorial Africa". Ex-library with the decorative bookplate dated Nov. 1888 of the oldest library building in the United States (Sturgis Library, Barnstable, MA), from whom this book was acquired. Half-title and verso of rear map foxed. Spine faded and light edgewear top and bottom of spine. Minimal library markings (no pocket). Boards are clear and bright. A very attractive book in very good condition detailing Christian activities in Eastern Equatorial Africa.