The Bible in Persian
London, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1973/ 1904. More
London, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1973/ 1904. More
London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1855 and 1856. More
London, British and Foreign Bible Society, 1966 (fourth impression)/ 1963. More
Wewak, Christian Books Melanesia, 1980. Pidgin translation of The Captivity told in cartoon format. More
Port Moresby, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1979. The Book of Psalms in New Guinea Pidgin. More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1998 (third printing)/ 1998. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Adelaide, Printed by Openbook Publishers (for the Finke River Mission), 2002. Signed by the author on the title page, and dated 'Hermannsburg, 8/9/02'. He was raised at Hermannsburg where his father, Pastor F.W. Albrecht, was in charge of the Lutheran mission to the Arrernte people of Central Australia, and later..... More
London, Thomas Ward & Co., 1834. The brother of South Australian pioneer George Fife Angas, William Henry Angas (1781-1832) 'was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne 6 Oct. 1781; went to sea and was captured by a French privateer, and imprisoned for a year and a half. He afterwards commanded ships of his..... More
[Broken Hill, Anglican Parish of Broken Hill, 1978]. Several related ephemera are loosely inserted. More
London, Isbister, 1900. With the ownership signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide; loosely inserted is a four-page leaflet (dated May 1900) appealing for funds for a new mission ship, and a Melanesian Mission stamp (depicting 'Reef Islanders'). The latter is unpriced, so presumably it is not..... More
Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1932 (first thus). A superb example of private press printing. This is one of 328 copies on Batchelor handmade paper, with a further 25 copies printed on vellum. The colophon reads in full: 'Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, with..... More
London, The Hambledon Press, 1984. 'Aston shows how Protestant Reformers derived encouragement from their predecessors, while interpreting Lollards in the light of their own faith ... an important contribution to the history of the Reformation, bringing to life the men and women of a movement interesting for its own sake..... More
Canberra, The British & Foreign Bible Society in Australia, November 1969 (first edition thus). 'The Four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, Ephesians, James and First John in Pitjantjatjara', a dialect of the Western Desert language of central Australia. While the title can be translated as 'The Good News of..... More
North Adelaide, Lutheran Book Depot, 1938. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow and inscribed 'University of Adelaide, 23 March, 1961'. An abridged version of the German-language edition published earlier the same year; the material not included in the translation tends to be documentary evidence. More
Tanunda? German Lutheran Church in Australia? n.d. Text wholly in German. More
The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Translation Series 9. More
Oxford, Basil Blackwell for The Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978. Provenance: Dated (1979) by, and with the ownership signature of, Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, OC. Boyle was a scholar and palaeographer, and later Prefect of the Vatican Library (1984-1997). Not stated as such, but from the collection of contributing scholar Heather..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1961 (first thus). 'Translated into modern English by Alec Brown'. More
London, Tavistock Publications, 1966. 'This volume derives from material presented at a Conference on 'New Approaches in Social Anthropology' ... held at Jesus College, Cambridge, 24-30 June 1963'. More
Brisbane, The Presbyterian Church, 1949. More
Brisbane, Isambert & Co., 'Nord-Australische Zeitung', 1893. Ferguson 6852. More
Milano, Solvay Societe Anonyme, 1991. More
Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1974. Provenance: Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, OC. Boyle was a scholar and palaeographer, and later Prefect of the Vatican Library (1984-1997). More
Santa Fe, Bennett Books, 2000 (first single volume)/ 1976 and 1977. "... a unique collection from his Central Asia travel notes of 1953..." (rear cover). More
London, Turnstone Books, 1975 (first paperback edition)/ 1965. More