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Psalterium despositum Per Hebdomadam juxta ritum Breviarii Andegavensis
Book ID: 4942More details Price: £400.00 -
Rome
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1611More details Price: £30.00 -
Rome et Le Pape
Book ID: 1609More details Price: £25.00 -
Rome et Le Pape
Book ID: 1610More details Price: £30.00 -
S. S. Pie IX Celebrites Catholiques
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1621More details Price: £35.00 -
Sacred Drama: JOAN OF ARC Written in commemoration of the Beatification of Blessed Joan of Arc, Low Sunday 1909.
Edition: First Edition
Barnet: St Andrew's Press, 1909. First edition. Pink paper covers, stapled. The cover of this slim paperback states that it receives "Blessing of Holy Father Pius X on Literary Work". Mainly clean pink paper, with a little nicking to the edges and slight marking. Internally clean and tidy, with a touch of darkening. A little rusting to the staples. 16 pages.
COPAC cites only the BL copy of this work. Sheila Agnes Turk was the pseudonym of Sarah Ann Agnes Turk (1859–1927). A Catholic writer, buried in Nottingham Cemetery.Book ID: 1203More details Price: £38.00 -
Sacred Scenes From Our Ladye's Life, Arranged as Sacred Dramas.
Edition: First Edition
London: Burns & Oates, 1909. A decent copy of this scarce first edition. Clean and tidy pale blue boards with gilt titles to the front board. There is a touch of rubbing and darkening to the spine only. No wrapper. Internally clean and tidy with a little foxing to the end papers. 140, (iv) pp. Musical Notation.
Book ID: 1101More details Price: £15.00 -
Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu: The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits
Book ID: 2818More details Price: £300.00 -
Sentimens d'un Chrétien touché d'un véritable Amour de Dieu, tirez de divers passages de L'Ecriture Sainte, et représentez par quarante-six figures en taille-douce.
Book ID: 2319More details Price: £130.00 -
Sermones Hyemales. Autoris vitam, indicemque locupletissimum in fronte libri praefiximus. Eisdem denuo summa cura per D. Damianum Diaz Lusitanum... recognitis luculentae adnotationes in margines accesserunt.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1382More details Price: £500.00 -
Snowdrops at Dusk and Other Poems.
Edition: First Edition
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd: 1945. Signed. Original pale green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front board. Cream paper wrapper, with titles and a woodcut of snow drops to the front cover. Warm gift inscription from the author to the Bridgettine community of Syon Abbey. 48 pages. Captain Jack (John Newman) Gilbey b.1888 was the older brother of Alfred Newman Gilbey, RC priest and long-time Catholic chaplain of Cambridge University. He was the author of several collections of devotional poetry.
Condition: The cream wrapper has a little marking / foxing to it but is otherwise sound. A touch of handling to the top edge only. The cloth is neat and tidy. Internally the book is clean, with no significant marks.
Book ID: 1239More details Price: £12.00 -
Songs and Sonnets
Edition: First Edition
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey Press, 1954. First edition. Salmon pink paper covers. Perfect bound. Cream paper. Very nice condition. The pink covers are clean and tidy, with a touch of handling, and a little fading to the spine only. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Several of the pieces had previously appeared in the Catholic Gazette, the Catholic Times and the Irish Rosary. As expected, many of the poems are expressing Roman Catholic beliefs, but others are quite light-hearted (such as "To a pair of Golden Slippers". 32 pages. .
Book ID: 1251More details Price: £12.00 -
Songs of Sion
Edition: First Edition
Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd, 1898. First edition. Hardback. Portrait frontispiece pasted down to the front end paper (looks as if this is to hide a gift inscription to the verso of the end paper). Inside front board there is a label from the Library of Syon Abbey, Chudleigh, Devon. Four plates. Original blue printed and bevelled cloth, uncut, leaf-patterned end papers, a bit of foxing to the ends, else a very good copy. vii, (i), 160 pp.
Book ID: 1048More details Price: £20.00 -
Songs to Our Lady of Silence
Edition: Reprint
London: Burns and Oates, 1958. Original cloth backed grey paper boards, a faded strip at the top of each board, some foxing at the ends, two leaves carelessly opened, half title with top corner turned over. Originally printed an published in 1921 by St Dominic's Press, Ditchling - this edition printed at Ditchling, copyright held by W.D. Woellwarth. The woodcuts were long misattributed to Eric Gill. (vi), 56 pp. Two woodcut plates, three woodcut figures in text. All by Desmond Macready Chute.
Book ID: 1028More details Price: £25.00 -
Stations of the Cross. For Private Devotion only.
Edition: First Edition
Wilkes Barre, PA: The Collins Press, 1940. Cream stapled paper covers with red titles and decoration (with an engraving of Christ Crucified). Publisher's details to the rear cover. Each of the stations has a verse and response, a description, and short thought. There is no imprimatur and the cover states that the work is only to be used for private devotion. The booklet is beautifully clean, inside and out, with no significant marks. COPAC cites this work as another edition of Social Justice and the Stations of the Cross, and gives the publication date as 1940. However, the pagination differs from the other editions that COPAC has. 16 pages. 145 x 90 mm (5¾ x 3½ inches).
Book ID: 1470More details Price: £58.00 -
Substance of the Speech of the Rev. J. P. Jones, of North Bovey, Delivered at a County meeting, held at the Castle of Exeter, on Friday, the 16th day of March, 1821 Convened by the High Sheriff, Pursuant to a Requisition, to Consider the Expediency of Petitioning Parliament Against any alteration of the Laws, as they now exist, relating to His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1304More details Price: £60.00 -
Substance of the Speech of the Rev. J.P. Jones, Vice-President of the Devon County Club, At the half Yearly Meeting of the Club, held at the Globe Tavern, Exeter, August 1st 1828
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1305More details Price: £60.00 -
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Book ID: 4852More details Price: £150.00 -
The Australian Messenger of the Sacred Heart
Edition: First Edition
Sydney: "Messenger Office", Riverview College, 1894. A monthly magazine for Roman Catholics in Australia. Includes prayers, essays, Catholic news, In Memoriam, lists of converts etc. Occasional woodcut head-piece and vignette. Original red calf gilt, a little rubbed at the edges, small split at the rear edge of the head of the spine, joints firm and contents clean, a very good copy. Slightly rubbed to the spine. Bookplate to the inside cover stating "Library of Syon Abbey". Gift inscription to the verso of the end paper. " To dear Rev. Mother from the Srs of Mercy at Gambus (?) Jan 14th 95"
576 pages.Book ID: 1031More details Price: £80.00 -
The Authenticated Report of the Discussion Which Took Place in the Chapel of the Roman Catholic College of Downside, Near Bath, on the 25th, 26th and 27th of February, and the 5th, 6th and 7th March 1834 Subjects: "The Rule of the Faith", and "The Sacrifice of the Mass". Protestant Speakers: REV. EDWARD TOTTENHAM, REV. JOHN LYONS; Roman Catholic Speakers: REV. T. J. BROWN, REV T. M. MACDONELL, REV FRANCIS EDGEWORTH.
Edition: First Edition
London: J.G. & F. Rivington, and J. Booker, 1836. First edition. Hardback. Contemporary half calf rebacked, book-plate of the Tottenham Collection, Bath Guildhall Library. Signature of Ed Tottenham at the head of the title, "sold" stamp of Bath Municipal Libraries on the title. Lithographic frontispiece with the facsimile signatures of the two short-hand writers, T.J. Brown and Ed, Tottenham.
The marbled boards are somewhat rubbed, but clean and tidy. There is chipping to the spine, and the top panel (1 inch) is detached (inside book awaiting repair). The title label to the spine has gone. Internally clean, but with some foxing spots. (ii) 484 pp.Book ID: 1039More details Price: £70.00