rowley rev henry (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1867/1969. Africa. Negro Universities Press. Ex-library good cloth but front hinge is shaken and exposed 424p.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). Second. Second Edition, x + 424pp, well-illustrated with engravings and two maps, hardcover, 8vo, bound in original green cloth, gilt decorated front board, neatly and expertly re-spined, new paper title label on spine, new endpapers, two library stamps on frontis and title page otherwise good condition, Saunders, Otley, and Co., London, 1867.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None stated (illustrator). First edition. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this continuation of Henry Rowley's 'The Story of Universities' Mission to Central Africa', with a continuation on the history of the mission and folding map. The first edition of this abridged and continued version. Originally published in 1866 under the title 'The Story of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa'. This edition features a revised abridgment of that work, with a continuation of the history of the mission up to the time of publication.A very scarce continuation of the original work.Illustrated with a folding map to the front.This work was written by the Reverend Henry Rowley, and features his account of the mission to Central Africa under Bishop Mackenzie, and a continuation of the history of the mission up to the date of publication.In the publisher's original decorative gilt cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with a slight lean, fading to the spine, bumping and slight rubbing to the extremities, and minimal rubbing to the joints. Hinges starting. Internally firmly bound with generally clean pages and spotting to the front and rear, and minor age toning. Very Good. book.

Hardback. First Edition. From its commencement under Bishop Mackenzie to its withdrawal from the Zambesi First edition hardback in original cloth with blind tooled border and gilt stamped motif to cover gilt tooled title to spine Pages untrimmed Illustrated frontispiece and vignette to title page 32 illustrations total throughout plus two fold out maps collated complete Cover and spine rubbed with light wear to edges and a little bumped to corners Small split to cloth over hinge about 1cm some shallow splits and frays to spine edges not affecting title Pages are a little toned particularly to edges with infrequent spotting and thumbing Binding is secure could maybe use tightening although no visible cracking to gutter Overall very good condition xii 493 ii pp Account of the societys first missionary expedition to Central Africa with the goal of actively opposing the slave trade and training black priests A good copy of a scarce work. book.

First edition, uncommon, just 9 locations on Library Hub. Account of the society's disastrous first missionary expedition which took them into Nyasaland, now Malawi. Founded in 1860 by a coalition of groups in Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin Universities, the Universities' Mission to Central Africa was inspired by the lectures that David Livingstone gave on his visit to England in 1857 and was established with two main aims: to establish a missionary presence in Central Africa, and to offer active opposition to the slave trade. It was the first mission society operated by the high church faction of the Anglican Church, and was unique among Anglican missions in that primary authority rested not with a committee based in Britain, but with a bishop in the field, for which purpose Charles Mackenzie was consecrated bishop of central Africa in Cape Town Cathedral in January 1861. The missionary party set off up the Zambezi into Shire, where their choice of Magomero as their base was fatally flawed, placing them in the middle of a region, ridden with disease and deeply troubled by intertribal conflicts. Bishop Mackenzie died there of Blackwater Fever on 31 January 1862, along with three other members of the tiny missionary party, and many local people. Early conversion efforts from this base yielded little result, and supplies ran out or were destroyed during a period of famine. Under its new bishop, W.G. Tozer, the mission subsequently withdrew from the area, abandoning the graves of the missionaries who had died there, and establishing a new headquarters in Zanzibar. Octavo. Frontispiece and 7 other plates, 2 full-page maps, numerous illustrations to the text. Original green sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to the boards, publisher's device gilt to the centre of the front board. A little rubbed, and a touch dusty, front hinges just starting, front pastedown slightly marked by the removal of a bookplate, light browning and some foxing front, back and to the fore-edge, a very good copy.