RARE 1898 CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN CHINA DAWN ON THE HILLS OF T\'ANG ILLUSTRATED 1ST
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RARE 1898 CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN CHINA DAWN ON THE HILLS OF T\'ANG ILLUSTRATED 1ST:
$49.99
From 1898, a very rare first edition, Dawn on the Hills of T\'Ang, Or, Missions in China. By Harlan P. Beach, formerly Missionary in China. Member of the American Oriental Society. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, the Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 7x5 inches. Bound in green cloth, gilt titles. 213 pages. Very uncommon. Note that Wikipedia\'s bio of author Harlan Beach gets the date wrong. Our copy is dated 1898, and they say it came out in 1900. Good condition, a littlemottling to the spine cloth.
Harlan Page Beach (1854 – March 4, 1933) was an American missionary, brother of David Nelson Beach. He was born at South Orange, N. J., and graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts in 1874, Yale in 1878, and at the Andover Theological Seminary (1883). He was missionary to China from 1883 to 1890 and at the head of the School for Christian Workers in Springfield, Mass. from 1892 to 1895, when he became educational secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. He became professor of the theory and practice of missions at Yale University in 1906. His works include:
The Cross in the Land of the Trident (1895)Knights of the Labarum (1896)Dawn on the Hills of T\'ang (1900)Geography and Atlas of Protestant Missions (1801–03)India and Christian Opportunity (1904)Harlan Beach became an emeritus professor at Yale in 1921. He died in Florida in 1933.
RARE 1898 CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN CHINA DAWN ON THE HILLS OF T\'ANG ILLUSTRATED 1ST:
$49.99