Backhouse, Janet & James H. Marrow & Gerhard Schmidt (eds.)

Biblia Pauperum. ""Die Goldene Bilderbibel""

Gebonden, hardcover; 1993; Luzern, Faksimile Verlag Luzern; Fine copy, please ask for all available pictures. Lower letterpiece of facs. vol. sl. loosening. -- Conditie: Goed; 1993-1994; 2 vols., facs. vol.: 31,(3) lvs. printed in colours and gold in 1060 numb. copies (980), orig. richly gilt full goatskin w. 2 mor. letterpieces and raised bands, a.e.g., silk endpapers; commentary vol.: 276,(2)p., fold. col. frontisp., ills., juxtaposed English, German and French text, orig. hgoatskin w. calf letterpiece, together in orig. perspex box, obl. narrow folio. Facs. reprint of Kings MS 5 in the British Library, London. Commentary vol. by J. Backhouse, J.H. Marrow and G. Schmidt.; Duits, Engels, Frans; ISBN10: 3856720383, ISBN13: 9783856720384

Klondyke BVProfessional seller

Book number: 248114

Catalogue: Antiek/Boeken

Keywords: Boekdrukkunst, Boeken

JAMES BACKHOUSE

Extracts from the Journal of James Backhouse, whilst Engaged in a Religious Visit to South Africa, Accompanied by George Washington Walker , part IX

London, Harvey and Darton. 1841, First Edition. Soft Cover (disbound). Book, Disbound, part 9 only, wrappers discoloured, some darkening title page and last leaf, corners worn. 99 pages. Good/No Jacket.

Marion Pitman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 005603

Catalogue: Travel & Topography

Keywords: History Topography Africa Travel Anthropology Quaker Society of Friends African Interest Antiquarian

BACKHOUSE, James.

'Honour to Whom Honour.' A Lecture on French Protestantism in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

London: Hamilton, Adams and Co. York: William Sessions, 1884. 8vo. 60pp. Original limp grey cloth gilt. Cloth partly browned on front board, light stains to rear board.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 25456

Keywords: French Protestantism BACKHOUSE York Printing

BACKHOUSE, James.

The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton.

London: Charles Gilpin. York: John L Linney, 1849. 8vo. x, 298pp, frontis. Original blind-stamped brown cloth gilt, uncut. Spine and part of boards sun-faded, re-cased with new eps.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 24114

Keywords: Quakers North East England Religion Local History

James & Charles Taylor Backhouse

The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker

London , A W Bennett, 1862. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this biography of the Quaker missionary, written in part by his missionary partner James Backhouse. In his missionary works he undertook detailed investigations into the plight of aborigines and convicts. The Australian dictionary says of him and James Backhouse that, "As they visited from house to house or presented to large gatherings their version of a simple practical Christianity, they encouraged schools for the poor, temperance, cleanliness and care in hospitals, humane treatment of the insane, and generally tried to arouse a social conscience among the inhabitants of every colony.. "His Quaker grey and 'thees and thous' were outward labels of a nineteenth-century puritan, but he contributed to the community the enlightened leaven of a Dissenter, the care for humanity of an Evangelical, and the gentle methodical persuasion of a Quaker resolved to effect a change in a vicious brutal world." Rebound in cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Externally smart though with some bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally the first few original pages, including the frontispiece, are torn with minor loss. The contents of the frontispiece are unaffected. Internally, lightly age toned and cockled. Otherwise clean and firmly bound. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: GEN28-E-16

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Quaker James Backhouse MIssionary James Backhouse None

BACKHOUSE, James, Jun.

Magistracy and war. An essay.

York: Thomas Brady; London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1862. 8vo. [5], 6-28pp. Original printed green paper wraps, sewn. Wraps very lightly soiled. An anti-war piece by a prominent member of the Quaker banking family. DISCOVER: Society of Friends. OCLC adds 4 copies, including the Lilly Library and the Kenneth Spencer Research Library in Kansas.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 44623

Catalogue: Religion & Theology

Keywords: Religion & Theology Warfare Quakers Anti-war

BACKHOUSE, James.

A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa.

London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844. Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius, large folding map of South Africa, 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp. First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. - A rich and personal account - Fine. Hess & Coger 5155.

Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 34996

Keywords: Africa Islands Mauritius South Africa mission

BACKHOUSE, James.

A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa.

London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844. Later half red morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius (mounted on linen), large folding map of South Africa (mounted on linen), 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp. First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. - A rich and personal account. - Fine. Hess & Coger 5155.

Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 36713

Keywords: Africa Islands Mauritius South Africa mission

Backhouse, James.

Upper Teesdale Past and Present. A handy reference book.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co Ltd. York: John Sampson, 1898 2nd edn. [viii], 87[3] pp, photo plates, map. Original printed paper backed boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, new endpapers. 19 cm x 13 cm. Wear to edges, tape to boards, random chipping to sides, loss to corners, contents age browned.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 34886

BACKHOUSE, James.

Upper Teesdale, Past and Present: a handy reference book, ...

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Barnard Castle: W R Atkinson, 1896. 8vo. [viii], 87pp, [2]pp adverts, frontis, 7 plates, map. Original colour-printed pictorial glazed-paper boards. Re-backed with original paper spine laid down; extremes rubbed with wear to board corners and edges; binding lightly soiled; linen reinforcement strip to front hinge; eps and ht lightly browned and spotted.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 40196

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North East England Teesdale

BACKHOUSE (James) and TAYLOR (Charles)

The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania.

London: A. W. Bennett, 1862. First Edition, xii, 556, 12pp., portrait, ownership inscription of on upper blank margin of title, original brown blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, a nice copy. "In 1827 Walker joined the Society of Friends, his diaries contain extracts of his remarkable journeys with James Backhouse, visiting the convict settlements in Van Dieman's Land, South Wales (including, at that time, Moreton Bay), and Norfolk Island. His wife was a member of Lady Franklin's committee to visit the female prisoners. In 1843 he was appointed to a board of inquiry into conditions at the Female Factory, built by Lieutenant-Governor Arthur in 1827 in accord with Elizabeth Fry's recommendations. Worried over the growing number of prostitutes, he formed a committee to 'suppress vice' by finding employment for destitute women. In 1848 Lieutenant-Governor Denison asked him to share in the task of providing an asylum for these women, and noted in his journal: 'the very personification of a mild, benevolent, and excellent Quaker' A respected founder with Backhouse of the Society of Friends in Hobart, Walker was always ready to plead for any convict under punishment by solitary confinement or treadmill for refusing in Quaker custom to remove his hat in respect to authority, to explain to judges the Quaker aversion to oaths, or to reason against state aid to religion. Although unable to repeat his missionary journeys, he managed to visit Friends around the island and encouraged others to travel 'in the ministry' to help new Meetings on the mainland". - Australian Dictionary of Biography. Ferguson, 6473.

Forest BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 35223

Keywords: TRAVEL TASMANIA AUSTRALIA QUAKERS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

James Backhouse Walker:

Early Tasmania.

Hobart: John Vail, Government Printer, 1914. Second impression (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 14cm), viii, 280pp. Portrait frontispiece, folding maps. Original red cloth. Light rubbing of the binding, foxing to the edges of the text block. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 44454

Catalogue: 3

WALKER James Backhouse

Early Tasmania. Papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania during the Years 1888 to 1899. [With biographical sketch of the author by George Clark. First and Sole Edition]. EARLY TASMANIA

John Vail, Tasmania,, 1902. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 6 large folding charts (one coloured in outline; several marginal tears neatly repaired); original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on title. VERY SCARCE.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 21488

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, exploration, australia, australasia, tasmania, van dieman's land, james backhouse walker

James Backhouse Walker

Early Tasmania Papers Read Before the Royal Society of Tasmania 1888-1899

London , John Vail, 1914. Cloth. The second impression of this work. With a portrait frontispiece of J B Walker and an additional six folding plates of maps and charts. In original cloth binding. Written and edited by James Backhouse Walker, an Australian solicitor and historian. He was a trustee of the Tasmanian Public Library and the author of several brochures on the history of his native colony. His works became standard authority on their subject. With a short biographical sketch of James Backhouse Walker to the preface by George Clarke. In a full cloth binding. Externally, smart with some bumping to the head and tail of spine. Some very small tidemarks to the spine also. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: GEN30-F-15

Catalogue: Australia

Keywords: Tasmania Australia James Backhouse Walker Australia None