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Basil Armstrong; or, Under Christ's Banner [and other tales]
London: W. Nicholson & Sons, 1890. Scarce. First (and only) edition. Hardcover. In red percaline, with black and gilt title and decoration to front board. Back board with black design. Internally clean, with b/w frontis illustration and two title pages. Some darkening to front and back free endpapers. Undated, but COPAC lists as 1890. 142 pages. 175 x 145 mm (7 x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3021More details Price: £40.00 -
Bijbelsche tafereelen. Oude Testament
Book ID: 4737More details Price: £75.00 -
Bishop Burnet's Travels Through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: describing their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade &c.
London: T. Payne at Horace's Head, 1750. First Thus. In contemporary full calf binding. With red title label to spine. Binding is rubbed to corners and label partially rubbed away. Includes called for short account of the character of the Bishop, table of contents, and ends with with an advertising leaf. Written by the Bishop to the Honourable Robert Boyle. Title page in red and black text, age toned to edges. Neat ink. Overall good. xxiv, 310 [2] pp. 160 x 110 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 4688More details Price: £100.00 -
Born for friendship. The spirit of Sir Thomas More.
London: Burns and Oates, 1965. First edition. Hardback brown cloth, in unclipped dust jacket. This book is "particularly illuminating on the delicate problem of vocation". Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. 220 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Father Bernard Basset SJ was directly descended from Sir Thomas More, and wrote many books - both serious and humorous.
Book ID: 3717More details Price: £20.00 -
Catechismus voor 't bisdom van Meaux. Uytgegeven door order van den Doorluchtigen heer. [bound with] Cathechismus van de feest-dagen en andere Hoogtijden en plegtiheden van de Kerk.
Book ID: 4745More details Price: £100.00 -
Certaine sermons or homilies, appointed to be read in churches : In the time of the late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory. And now thought fit to be reprinted by authority from the King's most excellent Majesty. [Bound together with] The Second Tome of Homilies, of Such Matters as Were Promised and Entituled in the former part of the Homilies.
Book ID: 1977More details Price: £350.00 -
Communal Silence An Address Given at High Leigh, Hoddesdon. May 1932.
Edition: First Edition
Oxford: Alden Press, 1936. First edition. Grey card covers. Cream paper, stapled. A very nice copy of this booklet. The covers have a touch of edge wear only. A couple of light marks, but overall a clean copy. Neat owner's name to the front end paper. Staples are a little rusting, but overall clean and tidy copy. 14 pages.
Dunlop was the founder of the "Fellowship of Meditation" an organisation to encourage Christian Meditation which is still going.Book ID: 1191More details Price: £12.00 -
Copies of the Epitaphs in Salisbury Cathedral, Cloisters, and Cemetery; Accompanied by Translations and Notes Historical and Biographical; with a General Survey of the Other Churches in Salisbury; and a Concise History of the Family of Montacute, Earls of Salisbury.
Salisbury: Brodie and Dowding, 1925. First edition. Ex-library copy, in tidy hardback library binding. Scarce. Usual small library stamps, but overall in good clean shape. viii, vi, 140, [2 errata] pp. 220 x 135 mm (8¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3972More details Price: £80.00 -
De Assumptione Mariae Virginis Oratio Habita XVIII. Kal. Sept. In Templo Liberiano
Edition: First Edition
Romae: Crispini Puccinelli, 1840. First edition. Printed in Rome, it seems to have been printed to be read aloud, as the blessing on the work (the first eight pages) is in a very large type. The rest of the work is in a more normal, although still large, font. Clean and tidy, and ready for binding, in a limp, marbled cover. The essay itself is clean and tidy throughout. There are a few tiny (burn ?) holes to the last couple of pages, but overall a good looking piece. viii., 20.
Book ID: 1112More details Price: £60.00 -
Der Antichrist und die Fünfzehn Zeichen vor dem Jüngsten Gericht. Kommentarband zum Faksimile der ersten typographischen Ausgabe eines unbekannten Straßburger Druckers, um 1480.
Book ID: 3984More details Price: £50.00 -
Der Tod von Basel. Acht (8) Holzschnitte von Rudolf Schiestl zu dem alten Volksliede
Book ID: 4269More details Price: £50.00 -
Engraved portrait of a Pope in Sanguine
Book ID: 4828More details Price: £150.00 -
Er ist auferstanden! Funfzehn Zeichnungen in Holzschnitt ausgeführt von A. Gaber und K. Oertel.
Leipzig: Aphons Dürr, 1868. Third edition of this illustrated edition of "He is Risen". Large hardback (stiff card) binding with buckram spine. Fractional bowing to the boards. Some marking to the covers. 15 full page engravings and 6 pages of commentary on the plates. A few foxing spots but overall clean and tidy. 330 by 430mm (13 by 17 inches).
Book ID: 3652More details Price: £60.00 -
Ex-Voto
Book ID: 5050More details Price: £150.00 -
Examples of San Bernardino of Siena. Chosen by Ada Harrison
London: Gerald Howe, 1926. This is the fine vellum-bound edition on handmade paper. Ornamental gilt panel to upper board, and gilt title to spine. Limitation of 1050 copies, this is one of the 105 on handmade paper- and is numbered #103. Signed to the limitation page by the illustrator, Robert Sargent Austin. Top of page edges gilt. In original slipcase. 29 woodcuts, including frontispiece, title page, and colophon; plus numerous decorated initials. The boards are slightly bowed, but the vellum is in very good condition. Slipcase is slightly soiled. Internally the book is clean and bright, with no inscriptions or other markings. 150 pages. 235 x 155 mm (9¼ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2520More details Price: £85.00 -
Galerie des Femmes Vertueuses ou lecouns de Morale a l'usage des demoiselles.
Paris: Le Prieur, 1817. Third edition. An attractive French book, with lessons for young ladies. Frontispiece and 15 full page plates each with 2 illustrations. Contemporary half calf with burgundy label. blue wash boards. A little cracking to the label but still attractive. Internally clean and tidy with just a touch of darkening to the pages. 396 pages. 165 x 105 mm (6½ x 4¼ inches). Troisième édition. Un livre français attrayant, avec des leçons pour les jeunes filles. Frontispice et 15 planches à pleine page avec chacune 2 illustrations. Demi-veau contemporain avec étiquette bordeaux. planches à laver bleues. Un peu de fissuration à l'étiquette mais toujours attrayant. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé avec juste une touche d'assombrissement des pages. 396 pages. 165 par 105 mm
Book ID: 3509More details Price: £50.00 -
Geneva / Breeches Bible
Book ID: 4431More details Price: £2,750.00 -
God in History; or Facts Illustrative of the Presence and Providence of God in the Affairs of Men.
Edition: First Edition
London: John Farquhar Shaw: 1849. Full black leather binding with gilt decoration to the edges and gilt titles. Leather bookplate to the inside board with the name "Frances Smallbone" The black leather is clean, but is rubbed to the edges of the spine, with some loss of surface colour here. Inside the book is clean and tidy throughout, with no particular flaws. Cumming was a Scottish minister, part of the Scottish National Church based in Covent Garden. His theology is firmly Protestant. "It is thus that God still acts in history, and that all men are agents, consciously or unconsciously executing his purposes." vi, [ii], 156. pp
Book ID: 1344More details Price: £12.00 -
Het lijden en sterven van onzen Heer Jezus Christus
Amsterdam: Ten Have, 1941. Scarce. Printed in an edition of only 200 copies. Hardback in dark brown leather boards, with gilt title to front and spine. Lightly rubbed. Hand coloured and gilt illuminated initials. Text in calligraphic Dutch. B/w plates. Very clean inside and out. Top of page edge in gilt. [44] pages. 280 x 220 mm (11 x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 4656More details Price: £50.00 -
Histoire de la "Réforme" protestante, en Angleterre et en Irlande, dans laquelle on démontre que cet événement a appauvri et dégradé la masse du peuple dans ces deux pays; dans une série de lettres, adressées à tous les Anglais sensés et équitables. (Premier ouvrage pour 1826)
Book ID: 2906More details Price: £30.00