Robson, William

James Chalmers Missionary and Explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea.

S W Partridge, 1903. Hard Cover, New editon, with a final chapter by Frank Broad. 176pp, the edges browning with age, illustrated red cloth covered boards, a little worn to top of spine. Attractive b + w engravings. Internally clean. A missionary admired by Robert Louis Stevenson... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 10862

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Keywords: Missionary, Rarotonga, Tonga, New Guinea, Robert Louis Stevenson

Robson, William and Briad, Frank B.

James Chalmers Missionary and Explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea.

S W Partridge, 1903. Hard Cover, New edition, the last chapter written by Frank Broad. 176pp, the paper browning a little with age. Blue cloth covered boards, illustrated in black and gilt. Attractive b + w engravings. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A missionary to Tonga, New Guinea etc admired by Robert Louis Stevenson... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13481

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Missionary, Rarotonga, Tonga, New Guinea, Robert Louis Stevenson

Roome, W J W

Through The Lands of Nyanza Central Africa.

Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1111. Hard Cover, Circa 1930 - Gift inscription on inner board dated 1934. 208pp, blue cloth covered boards, faded to spine. B + w photographs and fold out map. A couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Missionary work among the peoples of Uganda... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 5925

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Uganda, missionary, pygmy, Congo,Ruanda, Ankole, Busoga, Teso

Ross, K N

Christian Science.

S P C K, 1957. Soft Cover, 14pp, soft covers. A couple of creases, otherwise clean. The beliefs of Christian Science, and arguments against them... Very Good.

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Book number: 13622

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Religion, Christian Science

Rowley, H H

The Zadokite Fragments and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Blackwell, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 133pp, black cloth covered boards. Stamp of a theological library on the flyleaf and a previous owner's name, otherwise internally very clean. 3 lectures - the cave and its contents, the Battle of the Scrolls and The Covenanters and their History... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7515

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Dead Sea Scrolls, Covenanters, Religion

Rutherford, Mark (William Hale White

Clara Hopgood.

T Fisher Unwin, 1907. Hard Cover, 3rd impression. 298pp, green cloth covered boards with a portion of loss to the top of the spine and a little wear to the edge of the spine. Previous owner's name on inner board, otherwise internally clean... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7274

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Religion

Rutherford, Mark (William Hale White)

Miriam's Schooling And Other Papers (including Michael Trevanion).

T Fisher Unwin, 1111. Hard Cover, 3rd edition.Dark green cloth covered boards, a little rubbed to the ends of the spine. Frontispiece illustration. Previous owner's name on inner board, otherwise a clean copy. 5 stories by a master of English prose... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7244

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Religion

Du Ry, Carel J

Art of Islam.

Abrams, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 262pp, with complete dustjacket, sun browned to spine. 268 illustrations, including 194 in colour. Internally clean. The architecture and objects produced by in the Islamic world... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 11722

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Islam, Art

Sanders, Wilbur

John Donne's Poetry.

Cambridge, 1971. Hard Cover, 160pp,complete dustjacket, a litttle rubbed to the front. Internally very clean. An examination of Donne's poetry - when does he speak in his own voice, and when does he adopt a persona, what is true and what is conventional in the love and religious poetry... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 6459

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Donne, Poetry, English Literature, Criticism

Sarmiento, Fausto and Hitchner, Sarah (eds)

Indigeneity and the Sacred Indigenous Revival and the Conservaton of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas.

Berghahn, 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover, 256pp, illustrated hard covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Essays on current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival - geographies of Indigenous revival and conservation, and framing sacred sites in indigenous mindscapes, with case studies... As New.

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Book number: 10847

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Indigenous People, Sacred Sites, Religion

Schweitzer, Albert

On The Edge of the Primeval Forest The Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in French Equatorial Africa..

A & C Black, 1954. Hard Cover, 128pp, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to ends of spine. Frontispiece illustration. Two tiny spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise a very clean copy. Schweitzer's account of his calling, and the growth of his leper hospital in Africa... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 13487

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: French Equatorial Africa, Leper, Missionary

Sharkey, John

Celtic Mysteries The Ancient Religion.

Thames and Hudson, 1979. Hard Cover, Tall format. 96pp, complete dustjacket with a couple of short closed tears to top of spine. Colour and b + w illustrations. Internally very clean. The religion of the ancient Celtic peoples... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 4777

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Religion, Celts

Shaw, Mabel

God's Candlelights An Educational Venture in Northern Rhodesia.

Edinburgh House Press, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover, 197pp. Dark purple boards, a little faded to the spine and edges and with a little wear to the corners. Paper title label to the spine. B + w photograph frontispiece illustration. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, a couple of light marginal marks, otherwise internally clean. The author was a missionary and teacher in a school at Mbereshi, south of Lake Mweru in what was then Northern Rhodesia, for seventeen years from 1915... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 5488

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Missionary, Rhodesia, Travel, African History, Mbereshi,bantu

Shipley, Debra

Durham Cathedral.

Tauris Parke, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Angelo Hornak. Large format. 128pp,complete illustrated dustjacket. Full page colour photographs by Angelo Hornak. A very clean copy. The story of Durham Cathedral from its origins at the end of the 11th century, the construction and decoration of each part of the Cathedral and the revolutionary aspects of its structure. Part of the Travel to Landmarks series... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 4333

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Durham, Architecture, Cathedral, Norman, History, Church

Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Quo Vadis?.

Nelson, 1111. Hard Cover, Pocket sized book of 384ppp, red cloth covered boards, a little faded to spine, with impressed design of thistles. Internally clean. Set in the days of the early Church, in Nero's Rome... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13516

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Religion, Nero, Historical