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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. Samuel Cox was a baptist minister and British theological writer born in 1826. He was editor of the monthly publication 'Expositor'. 230 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2764More details Price: £100.00 -
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: £200.00 -
A Full View of the Roman Catholic Question.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1746More details Price: £75.00 -
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. Light bumping to boards. Previous owner's signature to FFEP, otherwise very clean. 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 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
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A Metrical Study of The Book of Job.
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Scarce First edition. Signed author dedication to the top of the title page, dated 1869. Hardback brown buckram boards, with gilt lines and titles to front and spine. All edges gilt. Marten uses monosyllabic irregular lines, arranged to resemble a Cowleyan ode, which emphasises Job's anguish. Clean and tidy book. 123 pages. 190 x 125 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3993More details Price: £40.00 -
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.
Book ID: 1813More details Price: £220.00
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A Treatise on Prayer:
Designed to assist in the Devout Discharge of that Duty.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1346More details Price: £30.00 -
A Vindication of the Answer to the Popish Address Presented to the Ministers of the Church of England.
In Reply to a Pamphlet abusively Intituled, A Clear Proof of the Certainty and Usefulness of the Protestant Rule of Faith &C.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1444More details Price: £75.00 -
A Water Colour of Mary in the Style of Raphaël.
Une aquarelle de Marie dans le style de Raphaël.
Book ID: 3821More details Price: £275.00
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Abrégé d'histoire Sainte
avec traduction Française em regard par E. L. Frémont
Book ID: 4175More details Price: £40.00
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Acta Apostolicae Sedis Commentarium Officiale
Book ID: 2868More details Price: £300.00
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Almanach de la jeunesse en vers & en prose, orné de douze jolies gravures;
ouvrage entiérement inédit.
Book ID: 2795More details Price: £80.00
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An Abridgement of the Prerogatives of St. Ann,
Mother of the Mother of God. With the Approbation of the Doctors at Paris: And Thence Done into English to accompany the Contemplations on the Life and Glory of Holy Mary; and the Defence of the Same; with some Pieces of a like nature. To which a PREFACE is added concerning the Original of the STORY.
Edition: First Edition
London: Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown, 1688. First edition. Pamphet. Disbound. Title, preface, a dedication to the Queen Regent (written by "the Maids of St Joseph") the text of the prerogatives. This is in fact an anti-catholic pamphlet from William Clagett. William Clagett (1646–1688) was an English clergyman and pamphleteer, particularly active during the reign of James II. As well as his own pamphlets, he would translate particularly colourful Continental Catholic material, with the aim of making the Catholics an object of ridicule. This is one of those pieces.
A nice copy of this pamphlet. Apart from a a few slight marks, the pamphlet is clean and crisp throughout and well bound together.[ii] i-xv, [i], [vi], 1-20. pp. WING A108.Book ID: 1440More details Price: £75.00 -
An Answer to several late Treatises, occasioned by a book entitled A Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome and the Hazard of Salvation in the Communion of it.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1347More details Price: £195.00 -
An Answer to the Question, Why Are You a Christian?
Book ID: 3073More details Price: £480.00
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An Exact Account of Romish Doctrine in the Case of Conspiracy and Rebellion
by Pregnant Observations Collected out of the express Dogmatical Principles of Popish Priests and Jesuites. Written and Printed Immediately after the Discovery of the Gunpowder Treason. And now upon the Discovery of the Present Popish Plot against the Life of his Sacred Majesty and the Government, reprinted and Published.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1391More details Price: £200.00