The Missionary Herald: Containing the Proceedings at Large of the American Board Commissioners for Foreign Missions: With a General view of Other Benevolent Operations, for the Year 1834. Boston: Printed Crocker and Brewster. 1834. 472pp.

Half leather, rubbed, but solid and attractive. 

*Fold-out of Chinese Writing. 

*Extracts from the Journal of Lawrence Methewin, a Native Convert of Ceylon, Lately Deceased

*Distressing Sickness Prevailing among the Choctaw / Choctaws

*Extracts from the Journal of Mr. Montgomery among the Osage / Osages

*The Journal of Mr. Hall among the Ojibwa / Ojibwas

*Extracts from the Letters of Isaiah Bird, Missionary to Beyroot, Lebanon [Content on Egyptian Soldiers, etc]

*Extracts from the Journal of a Tour Performed by Mr. Ramsey on the Continent [ Bombay ]

*The Journal of Mr. Read at Ahmednuggur [Reading Native Language, Heathen Festivals, Hindu Inquirers]

*The Journal of Mr. Schauffler, Missionary among the Jews of Turkey [series]

*Letters of Mr. Goodell, Missionary to Constantinople / Turkey

*Obituary of John Brown [ among first converts to Christianity among the Cherokee, this obviously his ‘American’ name ]

*Extracts from Missionaries at Yellow Lake, among the Ojibwa

*The Voyage of Rev. Charles Gutzlaff along the Coast of China [very lengthy travelogue]

*Outrageous engraving of a Sanyasi [ Sunyasee ] with his nails grown out, etc.

*Works of Dr. Ward [ of Serampore ] and Abbe Dubois with reference to the Sanyasi

*Mission to the Washington Islands [ part of the Marquesas Islands ]

*Mr. Read of the Bombay Mission Witnesses a Hook-Swinging

*The South Sea Mission of the London Missionary Society [Tahiti, Paiuma, Tati, etc. ]

*Letters from John Diell, Chaplain at the Sandwich Islands [ Honolulu, Hawaii ]

*Letter from Hiram Bingham of the Sandwich Islands Mission [ Hawaii ]

*A Mahommedan Fakeer, or Saint [ Fakir / Islam ]

*Communications from Mr. Thomson at Jerusalem [with Mr. Nicolayson of the London Jews’ Society, etc. ]

*Letter from the Head Men of the Stockbridge Indians to the Missionary Board

*Letter from P. P. Osunkherhine of the Abernaquis

*American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions [ Good content on Adoniram Judson in Rangoon, etc. ]

*Mission at Ava [ Da-Nu-Bu, Zo-Loon-Thoung, etc. ]

*Geographical Account of the Chinese Empire [ series ]

*Missions in Siam

*Journal of Mr. Meigs at Tillipally [attempts at arson on the mission building, etc. ]

*Obituary of Mrs. Stone of the Mission to the Mahrattas

*Extracts from the Journal of Mr. Boutwell attemping to find the Sources of the Mississippi River [ Sandy Lake, Upper Red Cedar Lake, Elk Lake, etc ]

*American Baptist Mission in Burmah [ Adoniram Judson ]

*Report of the American Colonization Society [ Liberia, Monrovia, etc. ]

*Large engraving of Indra, ‘King of Heaven’ in Hindoo mythology

*Journal of Mr. Thomson During His Visit to Jerusalem [ Lots of Content on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

*How far Educated Natives may be expected to aid in Spreading the Gospel over Africa; and is it Expedient to send Africans from the United States for this Purpose [converted slaves]

*Opening for Missions in Liberia

*Proceedings of the Convention of Christian Indians [ New York Indians ]

*Progress on Translation of the Bible in New Zealand

*Buddhism in China

*Fold-Out Engraving of the Chinese Alphabet [Presumably that of Robert Morrison]

*Preparation of Cards and School-Books among the Armenians

*Fine Engraving of the Mahratta Mission near Bombay [Map of Malwa / Deccan]

*Minutes of the General Meeting of the Missionaries to the Sandwich Islands [with statistics, etc.]

*Chinese Stereotype Printing

*Present State of the Nation of Hawaii on the death of Kaahumanu

*Slave Trade in West Africa

*Polygamy and Circumcision in Monrovia, etc.

*Communication of Dr. Scudder from Panditeripo

*Printing Establishment for South-Eastern Asia [ Singapore ]

*Extracts from the Journal of Mr. Tracy at Canton, China

*Letter from the Missionaries at Lahaina, Sandwich Islands

*Centenary Jubilee of the United Brethren’s Mission in Greenland [ Moravian ]

*Human Sacrifice Abolition Society [ of India ]

*Brief Memoir of the Evangelist, Leang Afa [of China]

*Extracts from the Journals of Messrs Arms and Coan of Patagonia

*Extracts from a Communication of Messrs Bird, Smith, and Thomson of Syria

*Letter from Mr. Whitney of Waimea on Kauai, Sandwich Islands,

Etc., etc., etc.