St. Louis: Peaceberry Press of Webster Groves, December, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], v-viii, 241, [1]; 7 illustrations; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. More
New Vienna, Ohio: Peace Association of Friends in America, 1876. First edition, 12mo, pp. 58, [6]; wood-engraved frontispiece; some light toning, rear hinge starting, else very good in original green cloth over flexible boards with gilt-lettered upper cover. Inscribed by the author to John G. Whittier, dated 1876, Germantown, Phila..... More
London: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press, 1934. First edition, 8vo, pp. 205, [1]; blue cloth, gilt title direct on spine; spine lightly sunned, corners bumped, fore edge spotted, but overall a very good, sound copy. A didactic philosophical conversation. More
Montreal: C. O. Beuchemin & Fils, 1890. 12mo, pp. 404; green paper boards backed in purple buckram; speckled edges; upper board stained, spine sunned, O. M. I. stamp on cover and title page, label residue on spine. A prayer book, catechism and hymnal in Chipewyan, transliterated in Latin characters. Laurent..... More
[Nettetal]: Monumenta Serica Institute, [2006]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 398, [2] ads; fine copy in original printed green wrappers. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series LIV. This bibliography lists primary and secondary works on Islam in traditional China, concentrating on two main topics: Muslims and Islam in China; mutual knowledge by Muslims..... More
Pragae: Joannis Caroli Hraba, Inclyt Regni Bohemiae Stat. Typographi, [1738 ?]. Small 8vo, pp. [4], 214, [10]; title page printed in red and black, text partially in double column, partially in Black Letter, 2 woodcut portraits within ornamental borders, other woodcut ornamentation throughout; bound in at the back are 17..... More
[Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1995]. 4to, pp. 9-164 (no pages appear to be missing); text in Traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout, one large folding plate; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded..... More
Auch: Stamperia e libreria di L. A. Brun, 1836. 12mo, pp. [8], 298; full contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, blind-tooled lozenges on covers, gilt spine, a.e.g., marbeld endpapers; boards quite scuffed and rubbed, textblock about fine. BNF only in OCLC as of June, 2014. More
[Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, n.d., ca. Broadside approx. 8¾" x 9¾", printed in red and black in two columns; very good condition. A liturgical sheet consisting of the Initium sancti evangelii... in the left column, and the Lavabo (Deus, qui himanae substantiae dignitatem...) on the right. Unrecorded. Not in Taylor..... More
Cambridge, Mass. East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1966. 4to, pp. [6], 310; original blue printed wrappers; very good. Compilation of seven papers on the subject, divided into three sub-sections, "The Missionary and his Contribution to China;" "The Missionary and Chinese Nationalism;" and "The Missionary and China's Rural Problems"... More
Cambridge, Mass. East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1966. 4to, pp. [6], 310; printed from typescript; generally fine in original blue printed wrappers, bound in later black cloth, gilt title on spine. Compilation of seven papers on the subject, divided into three sub-sections, "The Missionary and his Contribution to China;"..... More
[Hong Kong]: Viking Hong Kong Publications, 1992. First edition thus, first published in book form in Boston, 1836; 8vo, pp. [16], 280; color frontispiece portrait, 3 folding maps; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Augustae Vindelicorum & Dilingae: Joannis Caspari Bencard, 1695. Folio, pp. [16], 1092, 59 (index), [1] ads, 29, [1] index; engraved vignette title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and ornaments throughout; contemporary full vellum, manuscript title on spine; oil stain on the upper cover, clasps and catches not..... More
Chaneliak, Alaska: The Vicar-Apostolic of Alaska, [1951]. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 292; very good copy in original black cloth. Prelims and lesson headings in English, else entirely in Innuit. More
New York: published by order of the "Union Safety Committee," 1851. 8vo, pp. 16; removed; very good. Antislavery address by the Buffalo minister. More
London: Lather Pioneer Mission, n.d., [ca. 1912]. Second edition, small 8vo, pp. xii, 274, [1]; frontispiece portrait, map, and 14 plates showing 29 photographic illustrations; very good, sound copy in original green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Pioneer missionary among the Lakhers, a tribe of easternmost..... More
Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1853. 8vo, pp. 26, [2]; original printed front wrapper, rear wrapper wanting; removed from binding; all else very good. This copy with a presentation from Lothrop to "George Ticknor Esq. with the best regards of the author." Ticknor (1822-1866) was a lawyer and journalist from New Hampshire..... More
Boston: published by Wells and Lilly, 1828. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; original drab paper wrapper presnt on the front (with signature clipped at the top), back wrapper perished; very good. Lowell (1769-1840) argues that the method of organizing Orthodox churches, the Congregational Church on Hanover St. being the latest..... More
London: Samuel Smith and Edward Pawless, 1692. 8vo, pp. [32], 328; bound with: Lucas, Humane life: or a second part of the enquiry after happiness … the third edition. London: Sam. Smith, Ben. Walford, and Edw. Pawlet, 1696, pp. [8], 248; together 2 parts in 1 volumes, contemporary paneled calf..... More
London: Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1697. 8vo, pp. [8], viii, 471, [1] ads; contemporary full red goat, gilt rules on covers enclosing a triple-ruled gilt panel with floral ornaments in the corners, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 1, a.e.g.; spine a bit faded and small crack..... More
London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1987]. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. x, 451, [1]; full blue cloth, gilt title on spine; textblock starting to tone with two pages faded at the bottom but still legible, very good in fine dust jacket. More
Philadelphia: Mentz und Rovoudt, 1848. 12mo, pp. 251, [1]; woodcut frontispiece (within the pagination), dampstain pervades the first dozen leaves, otherwise a very good copy in original sheep-backed decorative paper-covered boards, green clover-leaf design on a pink brick-motif background, green and pink decorations to page edges; yellow bookseller's ticket of..... More
Germantown: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1770. 12mo, pp. [14], 490, [15], 13, 82 [i.e. 83], [1]; woodcut frontispiece portrait; contemporary full calf, brass clasps and catches preserved; a nice copy. The fourth printing of Saur's edition of 1757, "the first Lutheran hymnbook printed in the United States"..... More
New York: Amerikanischen Bibel-Gesellschaft, 1844. 2 volumes in 1, thick 8vo; text printed in double columns; full contemporary calf, black gilt spine label; considerable wear, leather rubbed, several losses to spine label, hinges weak; endpapers soiled, lacking front flyleaf; contemporary signature on title page; interior fine. American Imprints 44-646. More
Philadelphia: James H. Doughty & Co., 1845. First edition, square folio, unpaged; vignette title page, attractively hand-colored chronological tables; original three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, red gilt morocco cover label; binding quite worn, spine ends perished, lower cover spine edge shows discoloration from mold; hinges weak, endpapers dampstained, else..... More
