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By: Anonymous
Price: $1,200.00
Seller ID: 150308
London: printed for the proprietor; and sold by L. Wayland 1791. 1st ed., 12mo, 302 pp. A scarce volume “Containing very curious narratives of the appearances of many departed spirits on particular occasions, to friends, relations. &c. being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions. That have been recorded in several ages of the world; together with some originals. To which is prefixed, an introduction, b... View more info
![Image for Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /](/assets/images/product/BB - 69.jpg "Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /")
By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]
Price: $1,850.00
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. View more info
By: Buck, Charles
Price: $40.00
Seller ID: 150304
Published by Joseph J. Woodward, Philadelphia, 1831. A revised edition. 12mo, full brown leather with gilt spine; 624 double-column pages. Contents tight. Paper is age-toned with occasionally light foxing. Full brown leather cover is scuffed, some scratches, corners bumped. "Containing definitions of all religious terms; a comprehensive view of every article in the system of divinity; an impartial account of all the principal denominations which have subsisted in the ... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Joseph J. Woodward: 1831
Seller ID: 022006
'Woodward's New Edition published from the last London edition to which is added AN APPENDIX containing an Account of the Methodist, Episcopal, and Presbetyrian Churches in the United States to the Present Period.' Four engravings in front matter depict religious martyrdom's and tortures of the Inquisition. 8vo, leather, 624 pp. with gilt title and bands on spine. Containing 1,510 entries.Buck's Theological Dictionary, first published in London in 1802, sought to provide... View more info
By: Buoninsegni, Dom. di Lionardo.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti: 1579-1580
Seller ID: 150305
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 s... View more info
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 fina... View more info
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 t... View more info
By: Hecht, Ben
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1944
Seller ID: k1249
Unidentified printing; not a first printing but inscribed by Hecht on ffep. Hecht's attack on anti-semitism. 8vo, 276 pp. Good in price-clipped d/w with several tape-repairs. View more info
By: Hieronymi Fracastorii [ Girolamo Fracastoro ]
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Venice: I[J]untuas: 1573
Edition: 2d edition
Seller ID: k190203f
2d, ed., 8vo, contemporary vellum. First published in 1530, this is an excerpt from the scarce second edition of Fracastoro’s works which utilized a different and more readable translation than the first edition of 1530. [Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, p. 379.] Condition: Fair -- pp. 170-215 of a larger volume, but with the colophon and registratum present at rear. The text block is generally clean with occasional foxing and toning or browning; front... View more info
![Image for J.A. Danzii [hebrew lettering], sive, Interpres Ebraeo-Chaldaeus : omnes utriusque linguae idiotismos dexterè explicans : ad genuinium Scripturae Sacrae sensum ritè indagandum accommodatus.](/assets/images/product/k190114i_1 "J.A. Danzii [hebrew lettering], sive, Interpres Ebraeo-Chaldaeus : omnes utriusque linguae idiotismos dexterè explicans : ad genuinium Scripturae Sacrae sensum ritè indagandum accommodatus.")
By: Johann Andreas Danz [J.A. Danzii]
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Jena: Bielck [Ienae: In officina Bielckiana], 1745
Edition: 5th ed.
Seller ID: k190114i
A Hebrew/Aramaic grammar, with latin text by Johann Danz -- German theologian and Hebraicist. Professor of Oriental languages at the University of Jena. He was considered by contemporaries to be the greatest Hebrew scholar and his several works on Hebrew grammar, including this one, remained standard works for nearly a hundred years. (Jewish Encyclopedia). 12mo, vellum covered boards. 361 pp plus another 60 or so pages of indices. Good condition: a clean, tight copy ove... View more info
By: Mellott, S.H.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: American School of Magnetic Healing: 1899
Seller ID: 111602
1st ed. 16mo, printed blue stapled wrappers, 64 pp. Illus. An unrecorded guide to telepathy published by the American School of Magnetic Healing, Nevada Missouri – the institution usually associated with the work of Professor Sidney Weltmer. (Rear cover includes ads for Weltmer’s works.) Not in OCLC or in the Library of Congress online catalogs, although several copies have previously appeared on the net. Interior is fine; clean and tight. Wrappers lightly rubbed al... View more info
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 b... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: San Diego, Don Diego's Libreria: 1964
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: dg17121604
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 li... View more info
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... View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: The Review of Reviews: 1914
Edition: 1st ed.
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. View more info
![Image for [Napoleon's Oraculum] The Book of Fate](/assets/images/product/BB0220 - 30.jpg "[Napoleon's Oraculum] The Book of Fate")
Price: $135.00
Publisher: London, M. Arnold : 1833
Edition: 23d edition
Seller ID: k180226g
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 ... View more info
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Dolmen Press: 1955
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: k181227b
1st ed., 16mo. ¼ vellum, gray boards. Black titling on spine spinese. Limited to a total printing of 350 copiesthis is one of only 50 copies hand-colored and signed by the artist. (#31/50] The text is from the Douai version of Saint Matthew's Gospel. A near fine copy of this very scarce Dolmen press item. A 1” crease runs along the upper right front corner; otherwise pristine. Contains three line drawings by MacWeeney plus a small graphic on the title page. The large... View more info
![Image for Leabhar Na nUrnaighe comhchoitchionn Agus Inhiniostralachd Na sacraimeinteadh Agus Reachda & Deasgnaith Na H-Eaglaise Do Reir Usaide a N-Aglais Sasanach Agus Eirionach Aontuighthe Maille Rs an T-Saltair No Psalmuibh Dhaibhi, Ar Na Bpunnchadh Mar [The Book of Common Prayer and Psalms of David in Irish Gaelic]](/assets/images/product/k190218f_1 "Leabhar Na nUrnaighe comhchoitchionn Agus Inhiniostralachd Na sacraimeinteadh Agus Reachda & Deasgnaith Na H-Eaglaise Do Reir Usaide a N-Aglais Sasanach Agus Eirionach Aontuighthe Maille Rs an T-Saltair No Psalmuibh Dhaibhi, Ar Na Bpunnchadh Mar [The Book of Common Prayer and Psalms of David in Irish Gaelic]")
By: [Psalter in Irish Gaelic] Church of England and Ireland
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Dublin: M. Goodwin, Baile Atha Cliath: 1825
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190218f
1st ed., thus. 8vo, grey cloth. Pp. (10), 478. The Book of Common Prayer and Psalms of David in Irish Gaelic. Good: Covers soiled, chipped, and rubbed -- with rebacked spine and new endpapers. Text block is clean and tight overall, with some age toning but very little foxing. Some staining to fore-edge. View more info
