Bishop Rangoon (5 results)

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). First British Edition. Please Email for further details Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Impression. Very Good With Light Handling Wear Owners Name To The Fep Pp 104 Frontis.

Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 111 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs to the centre. Tiny rubs to the softened spine ends and corners. Near Very Good condition book in Poor condition dust wrapper with four pieces of paper missing down the spine, not price clipped 5/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BURMA, BURMESE (Myanmar).

Paperback. Condition: Good. had been bound with other pamphlets into a book -now removed -no card covers (if called for).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. TITCOMB, John Harford (1831-1902).  Autograph Letter Signed to the Rev. H. Brass, on the eve of sailing to Burmah to be the Bishop of Rangoon. Woking, 11 December 1877. Single bifolium, written in ink on the first and second pages; original folds. Light creasing from folding; trace elements of mounting to the rear, very good. A letter written shortly after Titcomb's appointment as Bishop of Rangoon, referring directly to the offer of the bishopric and to his imminent departure: "the moment the Bishopric was offered me? We are in dreadful confusion, as we sail on the 29th inst." The letter concerns practical arrangements before sailing, including family matters and the transfer of books and school affairs.  John Harford Titcomb had been Principal of the CMS College, Calcutta, before his elevation to the episcopate in 1877, serving as Bishop of Rangoon during the formative years of Anglican missionary organisation in British Burma. . Signed by Author(s).