Early American Missionary Work in India, an 1816 Bristol imprint

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Memoirs of Mrs. Harriet Newell, wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell, one of the first American Missionaries in India, who died at the Isle of France, Nov 30, 1812, aged nineteen years. To which is added a Sermon on occasion of her death, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, by Leonard Woods, D.D., Abbot Professor of Christian Theology in the Theological Seminary, Andover. Philip Rose [Bristol] 1816,

Frontispiece portrait, 158pp. Contemporary black half leather gilt with marbled boards, some wear to binding although perfectly sound, a little internal foxing but an excellent copy for its age and unusually an English printing of a book usually found in American imprints. Old ownership signature C. Kind to a preliminary blank.    nov1/3

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