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Softcover. 95 p.; 19.5 cm. List of languages and dates of Roman Catholic Bible translations, p. 55-57 Contents: Introduction -- 1. Bible, liturgy, and mission -- 2. The Bible in religious instruction -- 3. Progressives and conservatives -- 4. Roman Catholic translations in the mission fields -- 5. Facts and events: Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Continental Europe -- 6. Roman Catholic use of the Bible in the United States of America -- 7. Seen in perspective. -- `The following document was originally prepared, in response to a request, in the early autumn of 1962 for the information of Bible Society Secretaries. It is a follow-up to a first study (Bulletin of the United Bible Societies, No. 34, 1958), which gave a quick historical sketch and some current illustrations of the biblical movement in the Roman Catholic Church. The material, though by no means exhaustive, proved very abundant, while certain of the discussions at the Vatican Council II last autumn served to enhance its significance. Its publication in booklet form was therefore suggested.' (p. 7) VG in orig. illus. yellow on gray wrapper.

Hardcover. 9th edition. 450, [3] p.; 18 cm. Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. [title continues] suffered for the truth in Scotland, since the year 1680. Reprinted from the original editions,with explanatory and historical notes by John H. Thomson. Together with an appendix, containing the Queensferry paper; Torwood excommunication; a relation concerning Mr. Richard Cameron, Mr. Doonald Cargil, and Henry Hall [etc.] -- Contents: Interrogations, letters, relations, testimonies and last words of Archibald & Isabel Alison, James Boig, Matthew Bryce, Donald Cargill, Andrew Clark, John & William Cochran, Wm Cuthill, John Dick, David Farrie, John Finlay, Patrick Forman, Robert Garnock, John Gilry, Wm Gouger, James Graham, Robt Gray, Andrew Guilline, David Hackston, Thomas Harkness, Marion Harvie, Lawrence Hay, George Jackson, James Johnston, Wm Keagow, Margaret Lauchlane, James Lawson, John Main, John Malcolm, Edward Marshall, Geo Martin, Christopher & Robt Miller, Samuel M`Ewen, James Nicol, James & John Nisbet, John Paton, Andrew Pitilloch, Robt Pollock, John Potter, James Renwick, John Richmond, James & Thomas Robertson, Alexander Russell, Robert Sangster, John Semple, James Skene,James & Walter Smith, Archibald Stewart, Thomas Stodart, James Stuart, Arthur Tacket, Wm Thomson, John Watt, John Wharry, James Wilkie, John & Margaret Wilson, James Winning and Alexander Wood. -- This work was compiled from 1686 (continuing James Stewart's Naphtali, 1667) as `an account of the sufferings of this poor despised remnant, with what the rest of the land have suffered, under the domineering tyranny of the late deceased tyrant, and of the present usurper.' and first printed in 1714. Fair edgeworn cont. sheep, front cover loose, and lacking ffep.