Baudert, F.R. (Tr). & Keegan, Timothy (Ed).

Moravians in the Eastern Cape, 1828-1928. Four Accounts of Moravian Mission Work on the Eastern Cape Frontier.

VRS Second Series Vol.35. Van Riebeeck Society 2004. Gilt titles on chocolate cloth boards. 308pp. tipped-in coloured frontis. illustrated b/w plates. map. No inscriptions. 4 square corners. a near-Fine copy in dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780958452229 Comprises the following 4 accounts: Ernst van Calker, A Century Of Moravian Mission Work In The Eastern Cape Colony And Transkei 1828-1928. Paul Moths, Heinrich Meyer - A Stalwart Of The Mission Field. Hermann Gustav Schneider, Seeking Refuge. Meta Spear, Life In Africa 50 Years Ago.

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Book number: 27524

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Keywords: vrs africa african moravian mission missionary south southern eastern cape ernst van calker paul moths heinrich meyer hermann gustav schneider transkei meta spear

Birtwhistle, Allen.

Thomas Birch Freeman. West African Pioneer.

Cargate Press. London 1950. Buff cloth boards. 112pp. illustrated b/w photos, plates, drawings, map. No inscriptions. boards mottled (possibly damp induced) hence G only but contents VG, very clean and sound in Good dustwrapper (no major loss but chipped and worn. Author was founder of the Methodist Church in the Gold Coast and the first Methodist missionary into Nigeria.

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Bradlow, Frank.

Printing for Africa. The Story of Robert Moffat and the Kuruman Press.

Kuruman Moffat Mission Trust. Kuruman 1987. Printed blue wraps. 36pp illustrated with tipped-in coloured frontis, b/w line drawings. 8vo. A very clean copy, but significant red underlinings throughout else a clean attractive VG copy. ISBN: 0620114894 Moffat's heroic efforts in learning the Tswana language, translating the gospel, and printing this and other works, are legendary. This includes a list of the publications produced at Kuruman 1831-1870. Also covered is a history of the printing press itself.

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Champion, George. (Ed. Alan R. Booth).

Journal of the Rev. George Champion. American Missionary in Zululand 1835-9.

C. Struik. Cape Town 1967 1st edition. Duck-egg blue cloth boards. 149pp illustrated b/w. 8vo. No inscriptions. a Fine copy in VG dustwrapper (clean & bright, spine tanned but no loss, chips, or tears). George Champion was one of a party dispatched by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (in 1834?) to start a mission near Port Natal, the party arriving in Cape Town on 6th February 1835. They were instructed to keep a daily journal for submission to the Board. Delayed by act of war they only arrived in Port Natal on 21st December. Champion's diary starts on this date. Dingane was not a trustworthy person and his attitude to the missionaries changed continually. Champion's diary is a valuable personal insight into Dingane's despotic rule.

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Champion, George. (Ed. Alan R. Booth).

Journal of the Rev. George Champion. American Missionary in Zululand 1835-9.

C. Struik. Cape Town 1967 1st edition. Sea-green cloth boards. 149pp illustrated 8vo. 0.4kg. Bookplate to front pastedown and gift inscription to ffep. else a conservatively VG copy in Good dustwrapper (spine tanned, some minor wear, no loss or tears). a good clean copy. George Champion was one of a party dispatched by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (in 1834?) to start a mission near Port Natal, the party arriving in Cape Town on 6th February 1835. They were instructed to keep a daily journal for submission to the Board. Delayed by act of war they only arrived in Port Natal on 21st December 1835. Champion's diary starts on this date. Dingane was never a trustworthy person and his attitude to the missionaries changed almost daily. Champion's diary is a valuable personal insight into Dingane's despotic rule.

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Cheeseman, Thomas. (Rev).

The Story of William Threlfall, Missionary Martyr of Namaqualand, with Some Account of Jacob Links and Johannes Jager Who Fell with Him.

Methodist Publishing Office & Book Room 1910. Rebound gilt in red vynide, new endpapers. 164pp illustrate large 8vo. Binding as new. ff tanned. overall VG+ condition. A member of the Weslyan Methodist Society, Threlfall arrived in the Cape in 1822. He served for a year under the Rev. William Shaw in the Albany District, Eastern Cape before proceeding to Delagoa Bay via Cape Town. Moving to Namaqualand in 1824 he was stationed at Leliefontein. Moving north in 1825 their guides murdered his party thus ending the mission at that point. William Threlfall’s life ended at age twenty-six. He did not leave any organized mission stations, churches, or educational centres which he could claim to have founded, nevertheless the mission station later established at Delagoa Bay bore his name. A memorial was erected on the farm Allgemeine Zeitung, Windhoek, Namibia, on September 14, 1987.

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Keywords: missionary south southern africa african weslyan mission kamiesberg little namaqualand hollowforth silverfontein nisbet bath delagoa bay leliefontein

Colenso, John William. (Ed Ruth Edgecombe).

Bringing Forth Light. Five Tracts on Bishop Colenso's Zulu Mission.

University of Natal Press (UNP) & Killie Cambell Africana Reprint Series Number 4. 1982. Maroon skivertex boards. 252pp illus b/w plates. No inscription. top edge lightly browned, half-title also, hence a near Fine copy in VG d/w (rubbed, spine browned, no loss, chips, or tears). ISBN: 0869802836 Contains five tracts by Bishop Colenso written during the first 11 years of his consecration as Bishop of Natal., 1. Church Missions. The Ernest Appeal Of The Bishop Of Natal On Behalf Of The Heathen Tribes Within And On The Border Of The Diocese., 2. A Sermon Preached In The Cathedral Church Of Norwich ... On The Occasion Of Ordaining Henry Callaway. 1854., 3. Diocese Of Natal. First Steps Of The Zulu Mission. 1860., 4. Three Native Accounts Of The Visit Of The Bishop Of Natal To Umpande, King Of The Zulus., 5. On Missions To The Zulus In Natal & Zululand. A Lecture. 1865.

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De Arteche, Jose. (Tr. Mairin Mitchell).

The Cardinal of Africa. Charles Lavigerie, Founder of the White Fathers. (Lavigerie (El Cardenel de Africa) ).

Catholic BC. London 1964. Blue cloth boards. 208pp 8vo. Neat ownership inscription to tite page else a very nice VG+ copy in a VG+ dustwrapper (spine fading, no chips, tears, or loss). Biography of Cardinal Charles Lavigerie of the Spanish Society Of White Fathers, missionary. In 1868 he founded the Société des missionnaires d'Afrique, commonly known as the Pères Blancs or White Fathers, after the white magrebian dress they wore. Lavigerie himself drew up the rule. In 1874, he founded the Sahara and Sudan mission, and sent missionaries to Tunis, Tripoli, East Africa and the Congo.[Wikipedia].

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Book number: 10729

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Dickson, Mora.

Beloved Partner. Mary Moffat of Kuruman.

Gollancz. London 1974 1st edition. Red cloth boards. 238pp illustrated. 8vo. Ownership inscription ffep. sello offset to rear pastedown and dustwrapper fold-in. G-VG in matching dustwrapper (rubbed, internal sello offset, but no chips, tears, or loss). ISBN: 0575017910 A biography of Mary Moffat, wife of the missionary Robert Moffat. Dir 50 years Mary worked with Robert as pioneer missionaries in the lands north of the Orange river which was a harsh and demanding life. She built a home, taught the Gospel, bore her childeren and ran the mission station while her husband was away.

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Book number: 7382

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Hastings, Adrian.

Church & Mission in Modern Africa.

Burns & Oates. London 1967 stated 1st edition. Printed wraps. 263pp 8vo. Ownership stamp ffep. wraps worn, overall a G-VG copy. An assessment of the Catholic Church in sub-Saharan Africa. Concerned with issues such as missionary work, marriage, ministry, ecumenism, both to help African churchmen in the problems that they face as well as to enlighten those further afield of the African situation. Author was active in Central & East Africa in the mid-20thC.

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Book number: 19634

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Keywords: missionary christian uganda tanzania africa african south southern

Johnson, Howard A.

Global Odyssey. Visiting the Anglican Churches.

Bles. London 1963 1st edition. Green cloth boards 448pp. illus b/w photos, maps on eps. Boards spotted. edges and eps fox o/w G-VG in Good d/w (worn chipped, tanned, no major loss or tears). Canon Johnson, of the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine New York, travelled extensively through West, East, Central & Southern Africa on his two-year round the world journey visiting 80 countries and sleeping in 294 beds.

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Book number: 11683

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Keywords: anglican christian south southern africa african

Maclean, Norman.

Africa in Transformation.

James Nisbet. London 1913 1st edition. Gilt on blue cloth boards. 262pp illustrated 8vo. Unattractive externally but contents clean but well foxed although plates unaffected. A sound reading copy. A contemporary review of missionary endeavors north of the Zambezi.

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Book number: 24550

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Keywords: missionary africa african david livingstone nyasaland lake nyasa zanzibar uganda

Mears, W.G.A.

Wesleyan Missionaries in Great Namaqualand 1820-1867.

Methodist Missionary Department. nd. Printed buff wraps. stapled production with brown cloth spine. 26pp 4to. Wraps good, contents unmarked. overall VG condition. Perhaps an earlier printing than the Struik editions. The Wesleyan Missionary Society attempted to establish mission stations in Great Namaqualand between 1816 and 1867. Covers the Rev. E. Cook at Warm Bath, the Wesley Vale, Concordiaville, and Nisbett Bath circuits.

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Price, Elizabeth Lees. (Ed. Una Long for Rhodes University, Grahamstown).

The Journals of Elizabeth Lees Price. Written in Bechuanaland, Southern Africa 1854-1883. With an Epilogue: 1899 and 1900.

Edward Arnold 1956 stated 1st edition. Red cloth boards. 564pp 8vo. 0.9kg. No inscriptions, four square corners. eps foxed else text unmarked. conservatively VG in lesser dustwrapper (spine faded and rear tanned, chipped to tail of spine only, one minor closed tear at rear but no other tears, no loss). Mrs Price was a daughter of the missionary Robert Moffat, marrying another missionary Rev. Roger Price. She lived and worked with him among the Bechuana tribes of southern Africa until his death in 1900. The journals are actually her letters written to her friends and family in England.

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Prozesky, August & Oskar.

Hope Farm. Mission Stories from South Africa.

Centre Press. 1999 1st edition. Printed boards. 144pp 4to 0.5kg. Ownership signature ffep. Mildly bumped top of spine hence a VG+ copy. ISBN: 9780620240932 All the stories in this collection are based upon historically documented facts. Hope Farm was the mission station 'Konigsberg' founded near Newcastle in 1868 by August Prozesky who was the original 'Mfundisi' of these stories. Originally written in German they were translated into English and edited by his great grandson Oskar Prozesky.

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Book number: 29010

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Keywords: berlin missionary society south southern africa african natal konigsberg mission station