Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D. Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Hon. East India Company.
by SARGENT, John
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London, Printed for J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, by W. Mason, Chichester., 1819.. 1819 vii, 537, [1] p. Errata on final page. Presumed first edition as there is no edition statement (there appear to have been 3 editions in 1819). Contemporary diced calf binding, worn on the edges and corners but sound. Recent reback with the original label preserved. Henry Martyn 1781-1812 worked as a missionary in the Ottoman empire and in India, including translating the whole of the New Testament into Urdu, Persian and Judaeo-Persic. He also translated the Psalms into Persian and the Book of Common Prayer into Urdu.
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- Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D. Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Hon. East India Company.
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- SARGENT, John
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- London, Printed for J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, by W. Mason, Chichester.
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- 1819.
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