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The village in the mountains ; Conversion of Peter Bayssiere ; and, History of a Bible.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayssière, Pierre, author.
- Wilder, Sampson Vryling Stoddard, 1780-1865, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Bayssière, Pierre.
- Catholic Church.
- Conversion--Personal narratives.
- Conversion.
- Protestant converts.
- Anti-Catholicism.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--Protestant authors.
- Bible--Reading.
- Bible.
- Reading.
- Books--Fiction.
- Books.
- Christian life--Biblical teaching.
- Christian life.
- Christian literature--Publishing.
- Christian literature.
- Protestant authors.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Village in the mountains ; Conversion of Peter Bayssiere ; and, History of a Bible.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : American Tract Society, 150 Nassau St., 1851.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "The village in the mountains" is an account of an American's missionary activity in a French village, based on the letters of his widow, in French, deposited at the American Tract Society. Cf. Page 39. Attributed to S.V.S. Wilder in NUC Pre-1956 imprints.
- "History of a Bible" is the story of a Bible's experience and influence on it's readers as it moves from owner to owner.
- Contents:
- The village in the mountain
- Conversion of Peter Bayssiere : from the Romish Church to the Protestant faith : in a letter to his children : translated from the French
- The history of a Bible.
- Notes:
- The American Tract Society was first located at 150 Nassau St., New York, in 1832. A new typeface was introduced in 1848. The Baldwin Library copy is printed in the new typeface. One copy bears an inscription dated 1851.
- Double paging; each tract also paged separately.
- Publisher's advertising: 2 pages, 2nd count.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- Contains:
- Wilder, Sampson Vryling Stoddard, 1780-1865, author.
- Conversion of Peter Bayssiere.
- History of a Bible.
- OCLC:
- 847832379
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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