Religion
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![Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/07/03144202/2020_DSFB_4720-300x300.jpg)
# 26492
JONES, William (printer)
Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.
Sydney : [William] Jones, Printer, Bridge-street, [circa 1835]. Pair of broadsides, each 450 x 390 mm, printed on letterpress; both examples with an old central horizontal fold and toning, the Morning Prayer sheet with some insect damage around the fold and at top right corner (no loss of text); both unmounted. These rare companion broadsides were …
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![[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Buki tabu lowaenei : Nugana, Si apwesa, Loina, Ruta, Esiteri, Salamo, Isaia, Iona.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2019/10/31153915/2019_DSFB_5994-300x300.jpg)
# 34530
British and Foreign Bible Society.
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Buki tabu lowaenei : Nugana, Si apwesa, Loina, Ruta, Esiteri, Salamo, Isaia, Iona.
[=Old Testament. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Ruth, Esther, Psalms, Isaiah, and Jonah in Dobu]. London : British and Foreign Bible Society, 1919. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), original limp black roan, spine titled in gilt, 361 pp; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Dobu (or …
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# 34527
WEBB, T. T.
The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.
/ Ninth Methodist Laymen’s Memorial Lecture delivered by T.T. Webb, Wesley Church, Monday 26th March 1934. [Melbourne] : Methodist Laymen’s Missionary Movement, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers, stapled; pp 39, map; scattered foxing.
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# 34254
[CAXTON, William, c. 1422 - c. 1491]; HIGDEN, Ranulf, c. 1280 - 1364 (
A leaf from William Caxton’s Polychronicon, printed in 1482.
Westminster : William Caxton, between 2 July and 8 October 1482. Single leaf from Liber Quartus, f. CCii, 37 lines and headline (recto) and 40 lines and headline (verso), 274 x 206 mm (leaf), rubricated in red, with very early marginalia (several red inked notational marks likely done around the time of printing, and a …
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# 34378
[PAGE, Harlan]
Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo : a native of the Marquesas Islands, who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.
New York : American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-street, [1829]. At foot of wrapper title: Series IV., no. 1. Duodecimo (132 x 85 mm), illustrated yellow wrappers, stitch bound; original owner’s name (Charles A. Pierce, Groton, Mass.) to both sides of the upper wrapper; lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement and Fanshaw, printer at foot; pp 36, …
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# 34187
McLeod & Smith
Souvenir of Mary Immaculate Church, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1930
Sydney : photographed and published by McLeod & Smith, 1930. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, yapp edges with slight edge wear, pp. [28], staples rusted and central page detached, photographically illustrated. Rare with only two examples located on Trove (NLA; St. Paschal’s Library).
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![[ISLAM] Two broadsides printed for the All-India Muslim Educational Conference, Nagpur, 1911.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16224917/2014_DSFB_5501-205x300.jpg)
# 34204
[Āl Inḍiyā Muḥammadan Inglo Oriyanṭal Ejūkeshnal Kānfarans]
[ISLAM] Two broadsides printed for the All-India Muslim Educational Conference, Nagpur, 1911.
Delhi : Maktaba-e-Mujtabaee, 1911. A pair of broadsides summarizing proceedings at the All-India Muslim Educational Conference, held at Nagpur in December 1911. Two folio sheets, each 500 x 320 mm, both lithographically printed recto only; text in Urdu in Arabic script; original folds, some light foxing, otherwise fine condition.
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# 34292
O'NEILL, Herbert V.
Spiritualism as spiritualists have written of it.
With a preface by the Most Reverend Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool. London : Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1947. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (price-clipped, a couple of short tears), pp. 144, a very good copy. A withering look at spiritualism from a Christian perspective.
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![You've got to ride the subway! [A sort of "feminism"]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/19091412/2022_DSFB_0951-300x300.jpg)
# 33876
REINHARDT, Madge
You’ve got to ride the subway! [A sort of “feminism”]
St. Paul, Minnesota : Back Row Press, 1977. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (a few marks and light handling wear), [[. [vi]; 278, internally clean. The author’s feminist interpretation of Christian Science, to which she is a convert. From the library of the late Virginia Fraser (1947 – 2021), noted Australian feminist writer, artist and curator.
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# 34095
GIURGOLA, Romaldo
Luminous simplicity : the architecture and art of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2006. Quarto, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. International multi-award winning architect, Romaldo Giurgoila (b. Rome, 1920) is best known in Australia as the principal architect of the New Parliament House in Canberra. His latest major work is St. Patrick’s …
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![[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso nimo buaraigo gedaro nimo kowitorai dubu nou wade overa : Mataio ra Mareko ra Luka ra Ioane nei tau giuwodoirumo](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/10123123/2021_DSFB_8930-242x300.jpg)
# 33291
British and Foreign Bible Society. Commonwealth of Australia Council
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso nimo buaraigo gedaro nimo kowitorai dubu nou wade overa : Mataio ra Mareko ra Luka ra Ioane nei tau giuwodoirumo
[=”The four Gospels in Kiwai, Fly Delta, Papua”]. [Sydney?] : Commonwealth of Australia Council of the British & Foreign Bible Society, 1947. Duodecimo, original dark green cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt and with ‘KIWAI Gospels’ in ms. in white ink, pp iii, 393; endpapers with offsetting, but a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection …
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# 33672
WALKDEN-BROWN, Bruce
Children of Papua : a true story of the coast and islands of South-East Papua
/ by Bruce Walkden-Brown ; drawings by Beverley Dunphy. Sydney [N.S.W.] : Committee for Promotion and Literature, Methodist Overseas Missions, 1959. First edition. Octavo (220 mm), original pictorial wrappers, pp 62, with numerous line illustrations, map; a very good copy. Muir, 8911. 1 Do you know where Papua is? 2 The land of your brown-skinned …
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# 33404
HALE, Mathew Blagden (1811-1895)
The Aborigines of Australia, being an account of the institution for their education at Poonindie, South Australia.
Founded in 1850 by the Ven. Archdeacon Hale, a Missionary of S.P.G. / by the Right Rev. Bishop Hale. Published under the direction of the Tract Committee. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1889]. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), original pictorial green cloth over boards (rubbed, corners bumped), upper board lettered in gilt …
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# 33630
Westminster Abbey. Order of service of Thanksgiving and Dedication to Commemorate the Independence of the Kingdom of Tonga. Thursday 4 June 1970 at 10.30 a.m.
Hove, Sussex : The Hove Shirley Press, 1970. Octavo (240 mm), self-wrappers, stapled, 12 pp; small mark to front, else fine.
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![[MISSIONS] By land, sea and air in Papua and New Guinea : the outline of a journey.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/12/21103447/2021_DSFB_9252-300x300.jpg)
# 33677
JONES, M. T., Rev.; AUSTRALIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS
[MISSIONS] By land, sea and air in Papua and New Guinea : the outline of a journey.
Sydney : D. S. Ford, printer (for the Australian Board of Missions), [1938]. First edition. Octavo (218 mm), pictorial wrappers (light handling wear), stapled, pp 44, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations; a very good copy. Memoir of a missionary’s recent journey through Papua and New Guinea, visiting Samarai, Dogura, Wamira, Wedau, Doubina, Kobureirei, Gadovisu, Wanama, …
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# 33507
PULMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO [PULMAN, Elizabeth]
Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted in bottom margin ‘Photographed by G. Pulman [i.e. Elizabeth Pulman], Auckland’; verso blank; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition. ‘John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898) was an Anglican priest who became the second Bishop of Melanesia and then the second Master of Selwyn …