Indian and Singhalese Missionary Pictures.
London.
Baptist Mission House, 1894.
First edition.
Quarto.
x, 220pp.With numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting.
The sole edition of a pictorial history of Christian missionary work in India; illustrating first, the country and the people; then various phases of mission work, such as preaching, school-work, Bible translation, at Delhi, Agra, Serampore, Orissa, and elsewhere. The pictures - primarily taken from photographs - were initially published in the Baptist Missionary Herald.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 31591
