Thomson Rev J B (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Printing - First Thus. 325 pp. Blue pictorial cloth decorated in gilt and black on the front panel and spine; bevelled edges. Edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the front panel; presentation plate on the front pastedown; some foxing on the endpapers; hinges tight; gutters intact. Illustrated with line drawings. This anthology contains: Horace Hazelwood or Little Things by Robert Hope Moncrieff; Working for God by Rev. Frederick Whitfield; God Keep My Child - verse by Paul Gerok; Sketches in India: Natives Nurses and Ayahs - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture First; The Whispering Shell - verse - Anonymous; The Story of a Bible - Anonymous; An Insect Which Saved the Life of a French Naturalist by Adam White; Come Home - verse by Bessie; The Thorn in the Foot by H.P.M; Little Travellers - Anonymous; The Story of a Drop of Water - Anonymous; The Lost Tool - Anonymous; The Child Known by His Doings by Rev. H. T. Howat; Ragged School Reminiscences - Anonymous; Circumspice - verse - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture Second; The Two Birthdays - Anonymous; Sunbeams - verse - Anonymous; The Beginning of Evil - Anonymous; Sketches in India: Native Girls' School - Anonymous; Honesty - Anonymous; An Egyptian Desert Snail in the British Museum by Adam White; A Birthday Letter - Anonymous; The Childhood of Jesus - verse - Anonymous; The Violet - Anonymous; Summer Flowers - Anonymous; The Way to Be Saved by Rev. Thomas Alexander; Kiss and Be Friends by Hetty Bowman; The Swallow - verse - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture Third; Fables from the Farmyard by Mona B. Bickerstaffe; Little Servants - Anonymous; The Bible - Anonymous; The Stray Lamb - Anonymous; Rock Us in Thy Cradle - verse - Anonymous; The Christian Seaman - Anonymous; Little Peacemakers - Anonymous; Sketches of Swiss Scenery by Rev. J. Thomson; The Sunday Theatre - Anonymous; The Shepherd and His Flock - verse - Anonymous; The Two Cousins - Anonymous; Eugene the Little Rag Boy - Anonymous; The Repentant Child by Rev. J. A. Wallace; The Way to Paradise - verse - Anonymous; Herbert Kean by Josephine Frances; A Pure Heart - verse - Anonymous; and Autumn - Anonymous. Size: 12mo. Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Cheap Edition. x, 358pp + 2pp review extracts at rear, index, appendix, bw ills, 6 maps (5 folding). Or maroon cloth. Prize label inside front cover, small prev owner label on front free endpaper, light toning to endpapers, light foxing to page edges. Light damp stain to bottom edge including small pink 'bleed' from cover dye. Life of Joseph Thomson who travelled much of Africa in the 19th century from South Africa to the Atlas Mountains, the Zambesi, Masai-lands, the Soudan and much more. Size: 8vo.…

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Boards clean, spine sunned, spine ends chipped, corners lightly bumped, ink inscription to fep, light foxing to endpapers, frontispiece - black and white photograph of author, internal gutters cracked exposing binding at rep, illustrations clear, coloured maps in good condition, pp clean, unmarked, pp secure in binding. Size: 12mo.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Binding: Orig. red cloth gilt; Condition notes: hinges cracked, Good; Illustrations: 21; Maps: 6; Pages: xvi + 358; Edition/printing: 1st.

1st edition. 8vo. xvi,358pp. plus 6 maps (5 extending and all partially coloured), with frontispiece portrait and numerous illustrations in the text. Very good in the original burgundy cloth, with gilt map of Africa as cover decoration. Blind stamped address on title page. Sampson Low, Marston, & Co. London. …