Category: Religion & Philosophy

A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster, On Occasion of the Late Earthquakes

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Vertue and Goadby, Stationers at the Royal Exchange : 1750

Seller ID: k200225b

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Good

One of several editions published in the year of the quake, 1750 (priority unknown.) 12mo, 16 pp. Unbound, as issued. Stitched at left margin, but stitches mostly pulled. ##### In 1750 a series of five earthquakes rocked London. This sermon by Thomas Sherlock warns of a merciful God to a sinful people and lays part of God’s wrath at the feet of a sinful press: "Have not all the Abominations of the publick Stews been open to view by lewd Pictures exposed to Sale at Noon-day? Have not Histories or Romances of the vilest Prostitutes been published, intended merely to display the most execrable s...
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Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /

By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]

Price: $750.00

Seller ID: k180228l

n.p. n.d. 4to, illuminated vellum wrappers; 52 leaves; stitched binding. Pen and ink calligraphy, illuminations with watercolor head and tail pieces, and in-text illustrations all on hand-made paper. The artist/author is unknown. Clean, tight and unmarked interior. Covers torn and chipped on all edges. Date unknown but probably from late 1950’s - early 1960’s.
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[Leaf Book] Illustrated French Book of Hours; 16th century - two-sided original, ornamental

By: Book Club of California

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Book Club of California : 1926

Seller ID: s19111c

Condition: Near fine

5-1/2”x8-1/2 printed both sides with brilliant hand illumination, refined decorative borders and historiated or inhabited surrounds. 29 lines of text each side . In 1926 Edgar Walter presented the Club with about forty leaves of an early 16th century printed Book of Hours. These were sent to life and honorary members, institutions, and those of the membership who were particularly interested in early printing. The distribution was at the discretion of Albert M. Bender. The leaf was unaccompanied by any legend but with a letter of transmittal on Club stationary and signed by Bender -- present...
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The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona....

By: BOURKE J.G.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons : 1884

Seller ID: k200325c

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo, 3/4 pebble-grained leather, gilt titles, ribbed spine, t.e.g. ; marbled end papers. (xviii 372pp.) With 31 full-page plates, including one fold-out; 15 colored, plus colored frontispiece. Tissue guards on all of the colored plates. The special binding here is contemporary not modern; signed Lippincott’s. Bourke fought in the Civil War and was awarded the Medal of Honor. He then attended West Point after the war, became an officer, and served as a cavalry officer in the American West and Indian Wars until his death. He wrote this book about the Moquis Pueblos of Arizona Territor...
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Storie della citta di Firenze dal 1410 al 1460….. Books 1-4. [Stories of the City of Florence from the year 1410 to 1460. Written in the same times …

By: Buoninsegni, Dom. di Lionardo.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti : 1579-1580

Seller ID: 150305

Condition: Good.

Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti, 1579-1580. [The colophon is dated Florence, 1579, but the dedication to Francesco de Medici, is dated April 15, 1580.] 1st edition. Small 4to, 1/2 vellum and purple boards, inked title on spine.[38] 829 [1] pp. Text in Italian. Buoninsegni was a Florentine patrician, merchant and historian. Politically he held some of the city's most important offices and was a member of the broader circle of the early Medici regime. He spent the last ten years of his life completing this Historia Florentine; he died in Florence in March of 1466. The history ex...
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Common Sense: or, Natural Ideas Opposed to Supernatural

By: d'Hohlbach, Baron

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: 1248

8vo, full-calf, 204 pp. Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789) was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He is best known for his atheism and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770), which presented a core of radical ideas that prompted the Catholic Church in France to threaten the crown with withdrawal of financial support unless it effectively suppressed the circulation of the book. The list of people writing refutations of the work ...
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Delle Opere del Ven. P. D. Antonio De Torres, Preposito Generale della Congreazione de’ Pii Operarj. [The Works of the Venerable Father Antonio De Torres, General Provost of the Congregation of Pious Workers].

By: D. Antonio De Torres; Lodovico Sabbatini d'Anfora

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Napoli, Francesco Castaldo : 1754

Seller ID: k200628b

Binding: Marbled Boards

Condition: Good

Title Continues: Tomo Prio, Partei Seconda / Che contiene XXX. Ragionamenti fulla famosa parabola del Figliuol Prodig. Dati in Luce Da D. Ludovico Sabbatini D’Anfora, Della Congregazione de’ Peii Operarj, e Vescovo dell’ Aquila. [Volume I and Second Part Containing 30 additional orations on the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. Annotated by D. Ludovico Sabbatini d’Anfora, of the Congregation of Pious Workers, and Bishop of Aquila. ##### 2 volumes in one. 4to marbled boards, gilt band on spine. pp. 326 [vi] 454 #### Liturgy, sermons, and orations based upon the Parable of the Prodigal So...
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Encyclopedia Ecclesiastica / Prompta Biblioteca

By: Ferris, F. Lucci

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Frankfuert, Apud Van Duren : 1784

Seller ID: 1932

The complete title is "Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica, necnon ascetica, polemica, rubricistica, historica", an 8-volume encyclopedia of religious knowledge. The first edition of this work appeared at Bologna, in 1746. A second edition, much enlarged, also a third, were published by the author himself. The fourth edition, dating from 1763 seems to have been published after his death. This edition, 20 years later, contains the additions which the author had made to the second edition and also other enlargements (additiones ex aliena manu) inserted in their respective...
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The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life.

By: Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount S. Alban [Sir Francis Bacon]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley : 1638

Seller ID: k200418i

Condition: Poor

16mo, First edition in English, unauthorized, preceding the authorized English translation by two months, the imprimatur leaf being dated Sept 30 instead of December 19. [xiv]*, 323pp +[blank]. The text is a portion of Part III of Bacon's great work, the Instauratio Magna, a translation of Historia vitae et mortis. This is the last part of the Instauratio Magna published in English in Bacon's lifetime. With the engraved bookplate of Algernon Cappell, 2d Earl of Essex, dated 1701. Cappell held the office of Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King William III between 1691 and 1702. He was Colonel o...
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THE LAST THIRTY DAYS OF CHRIST. [Inscribed Copy]

By: Hartmann, Sadakichi

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Privately printed: NY : 1920

Seller ID: k190719l

Condition: Poor

1st ed. 8vo, brown boards, 109 pp, No. 53 of 3000 numbered copies. With an inscription by Hartmann to Paul Jordan Smith -- “from [as Bernard Shaw expressed it] ‘the man who writes about the last 30 days of Christ when the first day Him has not yet dawned upon Earth.” Smith was an American Universalist minister who also worked as a writer, lecturer and editor. However, he is most well known for originating the hoax art movement Disumbrationism. Giving himself the Russian-sounding pseudonym Pavel Jerdanowitch, Jordan-Smith painted a small group of crudely Postimpressionist canvases that he then ...
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Shouting: Genuine and Spurious. Giving a History of Outward Demonstrations of the Spirit such as Laughing, Screaming, Shouting, Leaping, Jerking, and Falling under the Power, &c

By: Henry, G.W.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Oneida, NY, Published and bound by the author : 1859

Seller ID: k200614a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

A history of speaking in tongues, along with lessons in the oratory of hellfire and damnation 12mo. [1, vi, [1], 7-425, [6] pages of sheet music for several hymns at rear. Engraved frontispiece. Maroon textured cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine with "Shouting in All AGES of the CHURCH.” Full title “SHOUTING: GENUINE AND SPURIOUS, in all Ages of the Church, from the Birth of Creation, when the Sons of God Shouted for Joy, Until the Shout of the Arch-Angel: With Numerous extracts from the Old and New Testament, and From the Works of Wesley, Evans, Edwards, Abbott, Cartwright, and Finley. Giv...
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[A Hebrew grammar, with Latin text] Interpres Ebraeo-Chaldaeus : omnes utriusque linguae idiotismos dexterè explicans : ad genuinium Scripturae Sacrae sensum ritè indagandum accommodatus.

By: J.A. Danzii [Johann Andreas Danz]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Jena, Bielck [Ienae: In officina Bielckiana] : 1745

Seller ID: k210909a

Condition: Good

A Hebrew grammar with Latin text by Johann Danz, German theologian and Hebraicist. 5th edition, 12mo, vellum covered boards. 361 pp plus approximately 60 pages of indices. Danz was Professor of Oriental languages at the University of Jena. He was considered by contemporaries to be among the greatest of Hebrew scholars and his several works on Hebrew grammarremained standard works for nearly a hundred years. (Jewish Encyclopedia). #####CONDITION: Good: a clean, tight copy overall but age-toned, light-to-moderate foxing throughout. Title hand-written on spine in black ink, surface wear and se...
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Historia Templariorum. (History of the Templars)

By: Nicholas Gurtler (Nicolai Gurtleri)

Price: $650.00

Publisher: : 1703

Seller ID: 0002

Amsterdam: F. Van der Platas, 1703 - 12mo, vellum. 448 pp. Second edition of this history of the Order of the Templars (1119-1314), written in 1691 by a Protestant theologian, scholar, professor of theology, rhetoric and history. Includes an index of authors cited and subject index. Vellum binding is intact, but soiled and with a slight bow to front cover. Ink title on spine. Pencil notations on ffep. Title page in red and black, engraved vignette. Text block is tight but many pages are age-toned or foxed; not enough to detract from a generally sound appearance. Several small tears in end pa...
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Diario / The Journal of Padre Serra translated by Ben F. Dixon

By: SERRA (Padre Junipero)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: San Diego, Don Diego's Libreria : 1964

Seller ID: dg17121604

Condition: Very Good-Near Fine

The Journal of Padre Serra, From Loreto, the Capital of Baja California, to San Diego, Capital of the New Establishments of Alta California in three months and three days March 28 to July 1, 1769. Including San Diego's Great Water Rights Document Now Published for the First Time. 1st ed., 8vo, softcover, 108 pp. Illustrations & map. Inscribed on title page by translator Ben F. Dixon. A very good-near fine copy: a darkened band 1” wide along back spine; light fade line along front spine. No tears, chips, or markings other than Dixon’s signature and date.
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Novum Testamentum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Interprete Theodoro Beza / Together with “The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and Others”

By: Theodoro [Theodore] Beza; Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, etc.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London/Ludgate: Rob Young / G.M. for the Companie of Stationers. : 1640

Seller ID: cr191112d

Condition: Fair

Two significant 17th century religious works in one pocket-sized volume. First, a Latin translation of the New Testament. Theodore Beza was a French Reformed Protestant theologian and scholar, who played a principal role in the Reformation, succeeding John Calvin as spiritual leader of the Republic of Geneva. As well as a number of important contributions to historical and theological writings, he also made an important contribution to Biblical scholarship publishing both a Greek and Latin version of the New Testament. This work, a later edition of his Latin New Testament is is noted for the ...
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Sequel to the Kreutzer Sonata

By: Tolstoi, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Thomas Crowell & Co : 1899

Seller ID: 081703

First separate American edition. Tan stapled wrappers with black lettering on front cover. 5"x7" inches. 16pp. This is a sequel to the original Kreutzer Sonata, originally published in 1889. An absolutely pristine copy. The publication of The Kreutzer Sonata set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters that were then called the “sexual question” and the “woman problem.” These debates stirred widespread condemnation from all sides, as well as fervent admiration. The Kreutzer Sonata was censored or forbidden in some countries as “indecent literature.” In this sequel, To...
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Eugenic Marriage, The. Volumes I-IV Complete

By: W. Grant Hague, M.D.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: The Review of Reviews : 1914

Seller ID: dg17122301

12mo. Half leather over marbled boards. Tight, square binding. Four of four volumes. Very good; some fading at extremities and spine, several small nicks to spine ends, end papers toned. Internally clean and tight.
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[Napoleon's Oraculum] The Book of Fate

By: [Hirchenhoffer, H. ]

Price: $135.00

Publisher: London, M. Arnold : 1833

Seller ID: k180226g

Condition: Good

The Book of Fate / Formerly in the Possession of Napoleon Later Emperor of France and Now First Rendered Into English from a German Translation, of an Ancient Egyptian Manuscript, Found in the Year 1801, by M Sonnini, in one of the Royal Tombs, Near Mounty Libycus, in Upper Egypt. 23rd edition. 8vo. Maroon boards. Fold-out frontispiece with Oraculum charts, "Questions which may be put to the Oracle." The Oraculum was discovered in one of the Royal tombs of Egypt during an 1801 French military expedition and, at Napoleon's request, was translated by the German scholar. It was Napoleon's most c...
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Image for Hand Illuminated leaf from Dutch prayer book [Gebedenboek], 15th century. Approx 4”x5-1/2” mounted and matted in a very sturdy, early 20th century wood frame. The framer’s typed label on the back states “Netherlandish, 15th century”, but with the date in roman numerals 1538.

Hand Illuminated leaf from Dutch prayer book [Gebedenboek], 15th century. Approx 4”x5-1/2” mounted and matted in a very sturdy, early 20th century wood frame. The framer’s typed label on the back states “Netherlandish, 15th century”, but with the date in roman numerals 1538.

By: [Incunabula / Bible Leaf / Prayer Book]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Netherlands, : 1538

Seller ID: k201019d

Condition: Very Good

Hand Illuminated leaf from Dutch prayer book [Gebedenboek], 15th century. Approx 4”x5-1/2” mounted and matted in a very sturdy, early 20th century wood frame. The framer’s typed label on the back states “Netherlandish, 15th century”, but with the date in roman numerals 1538.
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New-England Primer, Improved. 1855 Facsimile edition

By: [Juvenile]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston: Printed by Edward Draper : 1855

Seller ID: k200418e

The New-England Primer Improved For The More Easy Attaining The True Reading of English. To Which is Added the Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's Catechism.facsimile edition, circa 1850. 24mo, blue boards, unpaginated; Approx 80 pp. This was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies and became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s when it was supplanted by other works. Frontispiece of John Hancock; several woodcut illus. Condition: Good/Fair. Covers: Well worn but intact; substantial rubbing to corners; rebacked. Interior: endpapers toned, several small chip...
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Category: Religion & Philosophy