Important early American account of the missionary expansion both as part of the Westward Expansion and the movement of Americans into the larger global economy. 

Excellent contents, including:

*Bombay: Mission at; Admissions to the church; Preaching tours; Schools; Printing; Death of Mrs. O. Allen; Seriousness; Frigate Brandywine; Death of Mr. Graves; Mr. Hume’s visit to Goa; Death of Mrs. A. C. Allen; Mr. Hume’s tour in the Southern Concan; Obituary notice of Mrs. A. C. Allen

*Borneo: Mission to; Chinese boarding school; Station at Karangan; Dyaks; Labors and schools at Pontianak; Messrs. Doty and Pohlman to go to China; General Letter; Karangan station considered; Appeal for aid; Journal of Mr. Thomson

*China: Mission to; Treaty of Peace; Five ports; Hong Kong; Distribution of Missionaries; Hospital at Canton; General Meeting; Need of laborers; Plan of operations; Protestant missions in China; General letter; Mr. Abeel on infanticide; Death of Mr. Dyer; Journals of Mr. Abeel; Excursion to Cheang Chau; Obstavles; Chinese empire; Death of Mrs. Ball

*Constantinople: Station at; Native helpers; Jews in; Hebrew Spanish Bible; Seminary; Progress among the Armenians; Preaching services; Opposition; Hohannes; Missionary Spirit of the Armenians; Journals of Mr. Dwight; Journal of Mr. Homes; Censorship; Persecution; Journal of Mr. Schauffler; journals of Mr. Hamlin; Martyrdoms; Toleration; Inquiry; The past and present; Temperance; Letters from Mr. Dwight; Town in the interior; Letter from Evangelical Armenians; Interesting conversions; Death of Mugudich

*Nestorians, Mountain: Mission to; Death of Mr. Hinsdale; Peril of Dr. Grant; Messrs. Bliss and Smith; Mr. Badger; Nestorians attacked by the Koords; Mosul; Cruelty of the Koords; Captives; Efforts for the Nestorians; State of the Nestorians; Professions of Koordish Chiefs; Courtesy of Bader Khan; Revolt and Slaughter of the Nestorians; Death of Mrs. Laurie; Obituary notice of Mrs. Laurie; Letter from the mission; Health and deaths; Encouragement at Mosul; Murder of the Mafrian; Death of Dr. Grant; Excitement against the Papists

*Nestorians in Persia: Mission to; Native Helpers; Reinforcement; Disposition of the Ecclesiastics; Mar Yohannan; Seminary; Schools; Press; Popery; General Letter; Nestorian Type; Religious interest; Mr. Perkins’ Journals; Dr. Wright’s Journal; General Letter; Expulsion of the Jesuits; Mr. Stoddart’s First Impressions; Subsequent views; Encouragement; Opposition threatened

*Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]: Mission to; native Helpers; Dr. Judd dismissed; Death of Mrs. Locke; Admissions to the Churches; Death of church members; Number of Communicants; Revivals; Congregations; Common Schools; Seminary at Lahainaluna; Female boarding school at Wailuku; Hilo boarding school; School for young chiefs; Manual labor school; School for Missionaries’ children; Benevolence; Native ministry; Moral and Social Condition; Temperance; Romanism; Foreign Aggression; Lord Paulet; Recognition of independence; Annual meeting; General letter; Changes of Missionaries; Revival at Kohala; Services at Kohala; Tour of Mr. Bond; British Commission; Excesses; Protest of Dr. Judd; King’s Proclamation; Protest of Com. Kearny; The restoration; Admiral Thomas; Mr. Coan’s visit to Mauna Loa; Tours of Mr. Paris; Reinforcement; Edition of the Bible; Death of Mr. Locke; Death of Bartimeus; Obituary notice of Mr. Locke; Perils of the reinforcement; Fayal; Tour of Mr. Coan; Church at Hilo; Visit and Address of Commodore Jones; Volcanoes; Church at Ewa; Loss of Romish priests; Mr. Lyon’s Church

*Scotland: Church of; Grant of Jew’s committee

*Siam: Mission to; Chinese in Siam; Schools; Books and Tracts; Panic; Printing; Mo imprisoned; General letters; Progress; Commerce; New Party of Priests; Mo released; Chinese converts; Chinese labors; Annual report; General Letter; Narcotics; Intemperance; Gambling; Rupture with the English; Excursion of Mr. Hemenway

*Turkey: Mission to; Broosa, Constantinople, Erzeroom, Smyrna, Trebizond

Etc. etc. 

Anonymous. The Missionary Herald. Containing the Proceedings of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: with a View of Other Benevolent Operations. For the Year 1844. Vol. XL. Boston. Press of T. R. Marvin. 1844. 424pp.

A good + copy with ex library markings, bound in half leather with the hinges cracked, but still generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.