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A Brief Outline of the History of Old Hall. A Paper Written on the Occasion of the Centenary Celebration at St. Edmund's College, in 1869
Edition: First Edition
Standon: Edmundian Association, 1891. First edition. Original cloth gilt now a bit dulled, all edges gilt, some foxing at the front, else a very good copy. Owner's name to the front (Syon Abbey). vi, 80 pp. Frontispiece and seven Illustrations.
COPAC gives copies at Oxford and Cambridge only.
St Edmund's Hall was established in 1795 for the education of the children of Roman Catholic nobility.Book ID: 1077More details Price: £25.00 -
A Collection of the Works of William Penn in Two Volumes To Which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life. With Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published.
Book ID: 3743More details Price: £400.00 -
A commentary on the book of Job with a translation
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1880. Scarce First edition. Original black buckram with gilt titles to spine. Clean condition, but a little rubbed. Black end papers, front and rear hinges have been reinforced by archival tape. Internally clean and tidy throughout. A few foxing spots only, mainly confined to the first few pages. Xi, 552 pp. Plus advertisements for C. Kegan Paul & Co. at rear. 230 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches). Samuel Cox was a baptist minister and British theological writer born in 1826. He was editor of the monthly publication 'Expositor'.
Book ID: 2764More details Price: £100.00 -
A Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job. Together with : The Preface to a Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: The binding is somewhat rubbed, but holding together well. A little bumping to the corners of the boards. Slight scuffing to the boards. The gilt to the spine is somewhat rubbed but still attractive. There is a little nicking to the head and tail of the spine.
Book ID: 1750More details Price: £350.00 -
A Defence of a Letter Concerning the Education of Dissenters in their Private Academies: With a More Full and Satisfactory Account of the Same, and of Their Morals and Behaviour Towards the Church of England: Being an Answer to the Defence of Dissenters.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1219More details Price: £175.00 -
A Full View of the Roman Catholic Question.
Edition: First Edition
London: 1813. An Anti-Catholic pamphlet, printed by J.J. Stockdale. An examination of the Claims of Roman Catholics, particularly those in Ireland, and concluding that "Too much is already conceded to the Papists." The initials W.L.J. appear in ink to the top of the title page. There are some annotations in ink throughout the text. These are in a contemporary hand, and appear to be proofing corrections - changing the grammar, correcting errors, and altering some footnotes. Perhaps this copy was being prepared for a second publication? If so, it came to nothing, as Copac cites only two holdings of this issue, with no others cited. 49 [i]. pp
Condition: Good clean, but with no wrappers (if any). This was once part of a larger work, and has been removed from this - but was published alone (with price, printers details and colophon here). There is a touch of darkening to the outside pages. Internally clean, with the annotations as described above.
Book ID: 1746More details Price: £60.00 -
A Funeral Oration upon the Late King James. Composed from Memoirs furnished by Mr. Porter, his Great Chamberlain. Printed by the Consent of the late Queen. Dedicated to the French King, and published by his authority. Wherein it is own'd, That the late King reconciled his Brother King Charles II. to the Church of Rome, that he Himself design'd to destroy the Protestant Religion, and to reduce these Kingdoms to the Obedience of the See of Rome, according to the example of Louis le Grand, who, they hope, will effect it, and to punish there Rebellious Nations, as they are pleased to call them. With remarks upon the whole.
Edition: First Edition
London: A. Baldwin, 1702. Broadside, disbound. Title, dedication to the King, funeral oration. Full page woodcut pasted onto the last page. A mock oration of the recently deceased King James (who had been overthrown in the Glorious Revolution). Here, the author alleges that the King was active in trying to overthrow Protestantism, thus providing a justification of the reign of William & Mary, and a condemnation of the Jacobite cause. [iv], 7-17 [i]. pp.
Condition: Overall a nice clean copy. It is disbound, with the leaves loose. Although the pagination and register suggests that a leaf is missing, it is not clear that this is the case. The work flows, and does not seem to have any loss. ESTC cites three versions of this work, including two by the same publisher. These are 25 and 26 pp in length. This is 17, but is stated that it is finished to page 17. (The following work under the pasted vignette is a different work in French). It would seem that this is another version.
Book ID: 1414More details Price: £48.00 -
A Gentleman in Prison. The Story of Tokichi Ishii. Written in Tokyo Prison. Translated by Caroline Macdonald
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardback. Blue cloth, with paper labels to front board and spine. No dust jacket. Six b/w photographs. 164 pages. 200 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches). An autobiographical study with excellent insight in to Japanese prison conditions of the time. Caroline Macdonald carried out missionary work in Tokyo prisons, and this is the true story of the convicted murderer Tokichi Ishii who spent 27 years incarcerated for his crime. Mrs Macdonald befriended Ishii and enjoyed many discussions about Christianity and Buddhism with him prior to his death.
Condition: Light bumping to boards. Previous owner's signature to FFEP, otherwise very clean.
Book ID: 2834More details Price: £15.00 -
A History of Religions
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. First edition. Signed and dedicated by the author to the front. The dedication is to Sir Victor [Ewings] Negus, the famous British surgeon. They were both fellows of King's College, London. Hardback, in dark blue with gilt title to spine. Saurat has also made some corrections and annotations in 1943, and marked them in the pages and dated them. Boards are a little grubby and bumped, but inside is good - aside from Saurat's markings. 319 pages. 230 x 160 mm (9 x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3611More details Price: £30.00 -
A History of the Church of England in India Since the Early Days of the East India Company.
London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK), 1924. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Frontis photograph of the first Indian Bishop. Thirteen illustrations.
Condition: Very nice condition. The blue cloth is clean and tidy with just a little handling to the head and tail of the spine. Inside, there are two gift inscriptions to the front end paper. A little light foxing to the pages.
Book ID: 1536More details Price: £15.00 -
A Letter Concerning Invocation of Saints, and Adoration of the Cross, Writ Ten Years since, to John Evelyn of Depthford Esq: By Dr Barlow, then Provost of Q. Colledge, and now Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: The title and last page are a little darkened and marked, the rest of the text is clean; the pages have been cropped close with slight loss to the marginal notes, the text is unaffected, it is loosely bound together.
Book ID: 1411More details Price: £48.00 -
A letter to Father Lewis Sabran Jesuite, in answer to his Letter to a Peer of the Church of England. Wherein the Postscript to the Answer to Nubes Testium is vindicated. And F. Sabran's mistakes further discovered.
Edition: First Edition
London: Henry Motlock, 1688. Disbound. Pamphlet. Title, Imprimatur, text. In this work, Gee contested Sabran's claim that the church fathers had promoted a belief in the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Sabran was a French Jesuit, and son of the French ambassador to England. He was a priest in London following the accession of James I and was the chaplain to the Prince of Wales. Following the Revolution, he took the infant to safety in Europe. He was often engaged in disputation, particularly with Edward Gee, (about the Invocation of Saints) and William Sherlock.
Gee was Dean of Lincoln and strongly anti-Catholic. He was engaged in disputes with Catholics throughout his career. 1-8 pp. Wing G456.Condition: The pamphlet has light staining throughout and there is a small marginal closed tear, it is loosely bound together, the title is almost coming away, and the last leaf is detached.
Book ID: 1398More details Price: £45.00 -
A Letter Written by a Minister, for the Satisfaction of a Person Doubting in Religion. Shewn to be Unsatisfactory
Edition: Reprint
London: Henry Hills, 1688. Disbound pamphlet. Title with vignette. A defence of Catholicism. In two parts - a letter written to a young man (J.W.) who was considering becoming a Roman Catholic, persuading him of the merits of the Protestant church, and then a reply from his Catholic confessor, putting the Catholic case. This is the second edition. (The first being printed in 1686) [viii], 1-38 (I.e. 30) pp. Wing B185A.
Condition: The title has a small tear, a small stain, and is a touch marked. The text has some light foxing in a few places and is loosely bound together. The pagination is complete, and although the collation is complete, the numbering is 1-16, 25-38.
Book ID: 1406More details Price: £48.00 -
A loyal tear dropt on the vault of the high and mighty Prince Charles II. Of glorious and happy memory...
Book ID: 2822More details Price: £300.00 -
A Memorial of God's Judgments, Spiritual and Temporal, Or Sermons to Call to Remembrance. First preached and now Published for Publick Benefit.
Edition: First Edition
London: Dorman Newman, 1671. First edition. Scarce. A collection of sermons by Cromwell's Chaplain, Nicholas Lockyer [Lockier]. Full leather binding. Rubbed and worn leather boards. No end papers. Weak to front hinge. Marking to front board and title page. The rest of the book is mainly clean and tidy, but with some worm holes to the margins. Nicholas Lockyer (1611–1685) was an English clergyman and independent minister, a close supporter of Oliver Cromwell and Provost of Eton College, and later an ejected minister and nonconformist.
165 x 110 mm (6½ x 4¼ inches).
(10), 32 (2) 33-67, (2) 69-106, missing half title leaf 107-174 (2) 175-226 (4) pp.Book ID: 1876More details Price: £1,000.00 -
A Pastor's Farewell. Twelve Sermons, Including the Last Eight Preached in Trinity Church, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1150More details Price: £30.00 -
A Sermon at the Funeral of Sr Edmund-Berry Godfrey One of his Majesties Justices of the Peace, Who was Barbarously Murthered. Preached on Thursday the 1st day of October 1678. In the Parish Church of St. Martin in the Fields.
London: Tho. Newcomb for Henry Brome: 1678. Disbound sermon. Paper covers. Title, with black funereal border. Anti Catholic sermon preached at the funeral of Lloyd's parishioner, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, the justice of the peace to whom Titus Oates made his first depositions concerning the Popish Plot. Shortly thereafter, he was found mysteriously murdered in a ditch on Primrose Hill. This led to the arrests of several Catholics - and was the beginning of the hysteria of the Popish Plot. It would appear, in hindsight, that Oates himself was involved in the murder, and that its aim was to bolster support for his anti-Catholic allegations.
Condition: There is a touch of nicking to the corners of the paper cover. The cover is darkened - the rest of the sermon is clean and tidy. A sound copy.
Book ID: 1813More details Price: £200.00 -
A Short Account of the Origin and Progress of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain: With an Appendix of Documents, intended as An Introduction to the First Annual Report.
Edition: First Edition
London: C. Richards: 1839. A thin volume, not bound up (as issued) Titles and monogram of the institute to the front cover. Sewn. The list of patrons and the committee, led by the Earl of Shrewsbury, includes Lord Clifford as one of the (many) Vice Presidents. The Catholic Institute grew out of the Metropolitan Catholic Tract Society. The organisation was formed "To protect the rights of Conscience of the Poorer classes of Catholics and to promote the interests of Religion and charity." Irish M.P. Daniel O'Connell was also involved in the establishment of the Institute. Led initially by the Hon. Charles Langdale M.P. 16pp.
Condition: Clean and tidy copy of this work. The pages are almost without mark, and the printing has made a clean, deep impression.
Book ID: 1299More details Price: £5.00 -
A Soggarth's Last Verses
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1201More details Price: £20.00 -
A Treatise on Prayer: Designed to assist in the Devout Discharge of that Duty.
Edition: Reprint
London: L. B. Seeley and Son, 1825. Original diced Russian calf with gilt decoration to spine. Bookplate to the inside board. Contemporary gift inscription to the end paper. There is an engraved vignette to the title page. After the treatise on Prayer, there is around 70 pages with examples of prayers for the faithful to use, and an index. Edward Bickersteth (1786-1850) was an evangelical Church of England clergyman. He was active in promoting the Evangelical Alliance and was strongly opposed to the Tractarian movement. His son became the Bishop of Exeter.
Condition: There is rubbing to the edges of the boards, with a little bumping to the corners. The gilt to the spine has been rubbed and the titles are no longer legible. It appears that the book may have been repaired in the distant past (unsure) the end papers look a little newer. The binding is strong and secure. Internally clean and tidy throughout with just a little darkening. Overall a sound copy.
Book ID: 1346More details Price: £10.00