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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. [From the library of the Mayflower Society.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Gutters weakened with loose pages. Tears to head of spine. Some pages chipped. Sold with all faults. xliv, 639 p., portraits, illustrations, 26 cm. Other families chronicled include: Abbe, Babcock, Brown, Clark, Davis, Emmons, Halsey, Kitchell, Mather, Peck, Pratt, Selden, Sill, and Woodworth. Founded in 1897, the Mayflower Society, or General Society of Mayflower Descendants is a non-profit organization. Membership requires proof of lineage from one of the passengers who traveled to America on the Mayflower in 1620. Their educational mission includes telling the story of the Pilgrims as well as maintaining the highest standards possible for genealogy research into the lineage of the Pilgrims.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. xii, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm ; OCLC 5593443 ; Bound in red cloth. Pictorial front cover and spine stamped in gold. All edges colored olive green; George Herbert (1866-1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867-1947), two English writers who worked together on several children's adventure books, wrote under the pen name Herbert Strang. ; "Samba lay face downwards upon the yellow sand, amid which his body shone in the sunlight like polished ebony. Behind, the rising bank was thick with trees and shrubs ablaze with colour, overspread with the delicate tracery of lianas and, creeping plants. Here was a spot of red, there a dash of orange; at intervals the pale yellow flowers of climbing gourds and the mauve blossoms of convolvuli peeped from the wall of vivid green. Tiny rills made music as they trickled through the foliage; and near at hand was a path trodden by herds of antelopes as they came to drink." ; "Nearly a generation has passed since King Leopold was entrusted by the great Powers with the sovereignty of the Congo Free State. The conscience of Christendom had been shocked by the stories, brought back by Stanley and other travellers, of Arab slave raids on the Upper Congo; King Leopold, coming forward with the strongest assurances of philanthropic motive, was welcomed as the champion of the negro, who should bring peace and the highest blessings of civilization to the vast territory thus placed under his sway. For many succeeding years it was supposed that this work of deliverance, of regeneration, was being prosecuted with all diligence; the power of the slave traders was broken, towns were built, roads made, railways opened-none of the outward signs of material progress were wanting.the civilized world has been horrified to find that this imposing structure has been cemented with the life blood of the Congo races; that the material improvements to which the administrator of Congoland can point, have been purchased by an appalling amount of suffering inflicted upon the hapless negoes. The collection of rubber, on which the whole fabric of Congo finance rests, involces a disregard of liberty, and indifference to suffering, a destruction of human life, almost inconceivable. Those who best know the country estimate that the populationis annually reduced, under King Leopold's rule, by at least a hundred thousand. No great war, no famine, no pestilence in the world's history has been so merciless a scourge as civilization in Congoland." ; Contents: The Coming of the White Man -- "Rubber is Death" -- Monsieur Elbel -- Night Alarms -- The Order of Merit -- Samba is Missing -- Blood Brothers -- Jack in Command -- Samba Meets the Little Men -- A Trip with a Crocodile -- Bula Matadi Comes to Ilola -- Samba comes Back -- "Honour thy Father and thy Mother" -- Lokolobolo's First Fight -- A Revolt at Ilola -- The House by the Water -- A Buffalo Hunt -- Elbel's Barrels -- Breaking the Blockade - David and Goliath -- A Dash and all Together -- A Message and a Meeting -- Elbel Squares Accounts -- A Solemn Charge -- A Break for Liberty -- Turning the Tables -- The Return of Lokolobolo -- The Chicotte -- Reaping the Whirlwind -- Sinews of War -- Summons and Surrender -- The Dawn of Freedom -- Conclusion ; front endpaper excised ; dig at top of spine ; else G. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. School prize binding, presented by the author. Two-page prefatory note by the author written at S. John's College, Oxford, S. Catherine's Day, 1899. ***Very good in black full-leather boards with gilt floral decorative tooled borders, edges and inner borders, and gilt decorative tooled compartmented spine with gilt titles to red leather label to second compartment of spine. Armorial gilt shield embossed to front board. All edges of text-block colour-marbled. Colour-marbled front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. School Prize book plate to front board: Burford Grammar School , Christmas 1901 Scripture Prize presented by the Rev. W. H Hutton presented to H. J. Edmond by Henry J. Piggot, Headmaster. ***Corners and head and tail of boards slightly rubbed. Boards slightly rubbed. Small scuffs to leather of rear board. Boards clean. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***174 mm x 124mm. 3xi prelim-pages including prefatory note by the author and contents to the fore plus 300 pages including index to the rear. ***Chapters: I. The Church Before the Norman Conquest; II. The Church in the Middle Ages; III. The Reformation; IV. The Church Under The Stewarts; V. The Church in the Eighteenth Century; VI. The Nineteenth Century; Chronological Table of Important Events, Affecting the History of the Church in Great Britain; English Kings, Archbishops, and Bishops of London; Index. ***First printing of the true first edition, extremely hard to find especially in original full-leather gilt decorative bordered boards. A handsome full leather School Prize gilt binding. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.