Brazil and the Brazilians, portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches

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Author: Kidder, Daniel Parish (1815-1891) . and James Clooley Fletcher from the library of Professor Donald Worcester Year: 1857 Publisher: Childes Peterson/Phillips, Sampson Co Place: Philadelphia Boston Description: 630, + [10] ad pages. Illustrated with wood engravings; large folding map of Brazil tipped-in after copyright page; frontispiece. Octavo (8 ¾" x5 ½") period blind stamped cloth. ( Sabin 37709. Griffin 6502. Humphreys 413. Naylor 164. Welch 41. Borba de Moraes p 434) First Edition. Kidder, clergyman, born in Darien, Genesee County, New York, 18 October, 1815. He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1836, entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was stationed at Rochester, New York In 1837 he went as missionary to Brazil, and during 1839 he traversed the eastern coast from San Paolo to Para. He introduced and circulated the Scriptures in Portuguese in the principal cities of the empire, and preached the first Protestant sermon on the waters of the Amazon. He returned to the United States in 1840. and was stationed in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1841 and in Trenton in 1843. In 1844 he was appointed official editor of Sunday school publications and tracts in charge of the Methodist book concern, which post he held for twelve years, organizing the conference Sunday school unions, conventions, and institutes, editing the Sunday school Advocate and more than 800 books, and preparing the standard catechisms of the church. He was professor of practical

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