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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS, AND FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES

Missionary Pioneers in India, John Rutherfurd, Andrew Elliot, Edinburgh, 1896

LAN9545
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This volume details the pioneering work in India of 5 missionaries; Bartholomew Ziegenbald (Germany); Christian Frederick Schwartz (Denmark); and three English missionaries; Henry Martyn, William Carey, and Reinald Heber.

Missionary Pioneers in India, by John Rutherfurd, B.D. We believe John Rutherfurd was a Scottish church minister based in Renfrew.

Published by Andrew Elliot, Edinburgh. Printed by Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh. Undated, but believed to be 1896 (from Worldcat). Presumed first edition. Now, an uncommon title.

A good dark green cloth hardback with gilt titles to front and spine. Cover a little skewed. With cracked endpapers at inner joints, but all still bound. Black endpapers with pencilled grid drawn to first free endpaper.  Covers worn and bumped with spotted marks to front.

Text is bright and clear throughout, with occasional usage marks. 

Text in English.

Prelims + 179pp.

Weight approximately 296g (unpacked).

Approx Dimensions: 

Approximately 177mm high x 129mm wide x 12mm deep.