Very rare two early full years in folio of the important Evangelical missionary magazine, "The Missionary News." These were only the 4th and 5th years it was issued. All are rare because of the gorgeous 13 inch full-page engravings. 

The Missionary News. January - December 1869. [bound with] The Missionary News. January to December 1870. London. S. W. Partridge. 1869 / 1870. 144pp + 144pp.

Bound in a reasonably well preserved half leather folio measuring 10.5 x 13 inches. Rubbed, as shown. Half of one sheet of adverts only [no text] lacking. A few corners lacking, not affecting text. 

Contents include: Slavery and African Missions [with six engravings], Tatooed Savages [engraving as well], Human Sacrifice among the Khunds [engraving as well], Chinese Burying Children Alive [engraving], Missions in Caribon Island [Greenland], Tahiti and the Society Islands, The Freedmen of America [slavery], Australian Natives [Missions among the Australian Aboriginals], Extensive Accounts of Persecution in China, Full page engraving of "Red Indians Meeting with the United States Peace Commission], Full page engraving, "Training Mohammedan Missionaries in the University of Cairo," etc. etc. etc.