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LUMSDEN, James American Memoranda, by A Mercantile Man, during A Short Tour in the Summer of 1843.
Bell & Bain, 1844,
[LUMSDEN, James]. American Memoranda by A Mercantile Man, during A Short Tour in the Summer of 1843. For Private Circulation. Glasgow : Bell & Bain, 1844. Pp 60. 8vo, brown pressed cloth. TPL 2603, Waterston p.73. Pinned to ffep is a plate bearing "To Mr. McKinlay with the Lord Provost's Comp'ts. Glasgow, April 1844". Hinge cracks, light staining to boards, some foxing. 300.00
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LUMSDEN, James Skipper Parson: On the Bays and Barrens of Newfoundland. Cdn ed
William Briggs, 1906,
LUMSDEN, James. The Skipper Parson : On the Bays and Barrens of Newfoundland. Tor.: William Briggs, 1906. Pp (6), 1-212, (2), port.frontis.+ 15 leavesof plates. 8vo, green cloth with right-to-left sailing vessel on front boa rd. O'Dea 1333, Watters p.806, Rhodenizer p.53. There were U.K. and U.S. editions about the same year. Preface dated September 1905, Southampton, [Cumberland County], Nova Scotia. Lumsden (1854-1915), a native of Glasgow, "arrived in St.John's from England aboard the Caspian on 24 Sept 1881 and served for two years on the Random South circuit. He then left Newfoundland fortwo years to study at Mount Allison University but returned after his ordi nation. He next served on the Wesleyville circuit (1885), then moved to theTrinity circuit in 1888, and finished his stay on the Little Bay circuit b eginning in 1891. He then left Newfoundland in July 1892 to serve with the Nova Scotia conference. The community of Cat Harbour BB was renamed Lumsdenin his honour in about 1918." - DNLB pp.202-3. Chapters : Ye Oldest Colony ; St.John's; Shipwreck; The Way I Commenced My Ministry; Random South; Customs and Characterizations; Seasons of Refreshing; Lights and Shadows; Wesleyville; The Seal Fishery; Other Peregrinations and Perils; From Wesleyvilleto Harbor Grace via Fogo; The New Parsonage; Sidelights of Character; Trin ity; Sorrows of the Sea [English Harbour]; A Voyage North [Bonavista, Greenspond, Twillingate, Pilley's Island (with photo)]; Little Bay; Cruising Again [aboriginees, salmon, caribou]; Farewell. "On leaving England in 1881 for the mission fields of Canada, I was disappointed top find, on applicationto one of the great public libraries of Manchester, that the only work in its catalogue on "Newfoundland" was a little book, by a military sportsman,bearing the uncomplimentary title, Three Years in Fish and Fog Island [not traced in O'Dea: probably a misremembered title, perhaps McCrea's ( Lost A mid The Fogs, 1869, O'Dea 755]. - pp.13-14. Bubbling and some stains to cloth, both hinges broken, name, else good to very good. 75.00
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LUMSDEN, James Skipper Parson: On the Bays and Barrens of Newfoundland. Cdn ed, as is.
William Briggs, Toronto, 1906,
LUMSDEN, James. The Skipper Parson : On the Bays and Barrens of Newfoundland. Toronto: William Briggs, 1906. Pp (6), 1-212, (2), port.frontis.+ 15 leaves of plates. 8vo, green cloth with right-to-left sailing vessel on front board, red lettering to spine. O'Dea 1333, Watters p.806, Rhodenizer p.53. There were U.K. and U.S. editions about the same year. Preface dated September 1905, Southampton, [Cumberland County], Nova Scotia. Lumsden (1854-1915), a native of Glasgow, "arrived in St.John's from England aboard the Caspian on 24 Sept 1881 and served for two years on the Random South circuit. Hethen left Newfoundland for two years to study at Mount Allison University but returned after his ordination. He next served on the Wesleyville circuit (1885), then moved to the Trinity circuit in 1888, and finished his stay on the Little Bay circuit beginning in 1891. He then left Newfoundland in July 1892 to serve with the Nova Scotia conference. The community of Cat Harbour BB was renamed Lumsden in his honour in about 1918." - DNLB pp.202-3. Chapters : Ye Oldest Colony; St.John's; Shipwreck; The Way I Commenced My Ministry; Random South; Customs and Characterizations; Seasons of Refreshing; Lights and Shadows; Wesleyville; The Seal Fishery; Other Peregrinations and Perils; From Wesleyville to Harbor Grace via Fogo; The New Parsonage; Sidelights of Character; Trinity; Sorrows of the Sea [English Harbour]; A Voyage North [Bonavista, Greenspond, Twillingate, Pilley's Island (with photo)]; Little Bay; Cruising Again [aboriginees, salmon, caribou]; Farewell. "Onleaving England in 1881 for the mission fields of Canada, I was disappoint ed top find, on application to one of the great public libraries of Manchester, that the only work in its catalogue on "Newfoundland" was a little book, by a military sportsman, bearing the uncomplimentary title, Three Years in Fish and Fog Island [not traced in O'Dea: probably a misremembered title, perhaps McCrea's ( Lost Amid The Fogs, 1869, O'Dea 755]. - pp.13-14. Front inner hinges cracked, nicking to spine ends, some shelfwear, light rubbing to boards, occasional marginal smudging, else good. As is. 30.00
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