The Missionary Herald, for the Year 1821
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Boston: Published for the Board by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. index, viii, 400p. Original tree calf. 23cm. Old stains on a couple of leaves. Three or four small blank corners misfolded when bound. Former owner's red name stamp on verso of title-leaf and another partially removed stamp at base of first page of Index. Foxing on endpapers and adjacent leaves. The April-September issues (at pages 11-121, 129-143, 169-178, 214-218, 241-250, and 278-283) contain a report, in six installments, distilled from the first bundle of letters and a journal sent (on a ship returning via Canton) to the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from Hiram Bingham and other recently dispatched missionaries to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). This volume also includes reports on the Board's Cherokee, Choctaw, and Palestine missions, and on the Board's donors and other missionary activities.
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- Bookseller
- McBlain Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86327
- Title
- The Missionary Herald, for the Year 1821
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published for the Board by Samuel T. Armstrong
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1822
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McBlain Books
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Hamden, Connecticut
About McBlain Books
Our second floor shop contains about 15,000 volumes and is open by appointment. Established 1970. We have been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America for over 45 years. While there is a heavy emphasis in our stock on African Americana, Africa, Asia and the Middle East we also buy and sell antiquarian books on other subjects.
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