Research Catalog

Title

Historical sketches of the missions of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen : from their commencement to the year 1817 / by the Rev. John Holmes, author of History of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren.

Author

Holmes, John, 1767-1843.

Publication

London : Printed for the author, and sold at no. 84 Hatton Garden, by J. Nisbet, 21 Berner's-Street, Oxford-Street, and by Simpkin and Marshall of Stationers' Court ; Edinburgh : Wm. Oliphant ; Dublin : R.M. Tims ; Bradford : T. Inkersley and other booksellers, 1827

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Details

Additional Authors

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Description

v, [3], 470, [2] pages; 23 cm (8vo)

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• Moravian Church Missions
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• History
• West Indies
• South America
• South Africa
• North America
• Greenland
• Asia
• Moravians > Missions
• Moravian Indians > Missions
• Missions > Asia
• Missions > Greenland
• Missions > South America
• Missions > North America
• Moravian Church Missions > History
• Missions > West Indies
• Missions > South Africa

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Printer's name on final leaf beneath errata.
• Includes indexes (pages 461-470).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

• With bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare -266 H: bound in publisher's full Tree Calf bindings and gilt spine.

Contents

Mission in Greenland -- Labrador -- N. America -- S. America -- Pilgerhut on Rio de Berbice -- Sharon on Saramacca -- Hope on Corentyn -- Bambey on Saramacca -- Paramaribo -- Sommelsdyke -- Mission in the West Indies -- Danish West India islands -- Jamaica -- Antigua -- Barbadoes -- St. Kitt's -- Mission in S. Africa -- In Russian Asia -- Unsuccessful missions -- Concluding observations.

Call Number

Sc Rare 266-H (Holmes, J. Historical sketches of the missions)

LCCN

• 23016538
• ocm03065117

OCLC

3065117

Author

Holmes, John, 1767-1843.

Title

Historical sketches of the missions of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen : from their commencement to the year 1817 / by the Rev. John Holmes, author of History of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren.

Imprint

London : Printed for the author, and sold at no. 84 Hatton Garden, by J. Nisbet, 21 Berner's-Street, Oxford-Street, and by Simpkin and Marshall of Stationers' Court ; Edinburgh : Wm. Oliphant ; Dublin : R.M. Tims ; Bradford : T. Inkersley and other booksellers, 1827 (Bradford : T. Inkersley)

Edition

Second improved edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 32607

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 4, page 3399, column 1, row 7

Provenance

With bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection. NN

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare -266 H: bound in publisher's full Tree Calf bindings and gilt spine. NN

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy includes accession no. K592215 in ink on the top right corner of [2] of cover and page 1. Probably one of the books added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator; imperfect: loose front cover, chip spine, currently housed in an archival box, and includes some manuscript notation in graphite in the preliminary page.

Source

Copy in Sc Rare -266 H: K592215. NN

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Indexed Term

Missions

Local Subject

Bookplates (Provenance).

Place of Publication

United States Arkansas Little Rock.

England London.

Scotland Edinburgh.

Ireland Dublin.

Added Author

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Holmes, John Beck, bp., 1767-1843. Historical sketches of the missions of the United Brethern for propagating the Gospel among the heathen, from their commencement to the year 1817. 2nd improved ed. London : Printed for the author, 1827 (OCoLC)656871230

Other Standard Identifier

ocm03065117

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 266-H (Holmes, J. Historical sketches of the missions)

ZKVI (Holmes, J. Historical sketches of the missions. 1827)