[Japan?]: [c. early 20th century]. Accordion-bound large octavo artist's sketchbook, containing 25 double-page, hand-painted color images, including nature scenes, portraits of Hotei and Daruma, and village life. The images are minimalist and bold, with heavy influence from Chinese brush painting. The artist is anonymous, but clearly quite talented. Bound in..... More
New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. 182 Broadway, Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834. 16mo, pp. 237, [1]; engraved frontispiece; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine faded else very good and sound. Born in Hallowell, Maine, Abbott (1803-1879) wrote 180 books, largely juvenile fiction (his series of Rollo books were his most..... More
Montpelier, [Vt.]: published by J. E. Thompson, 1843. Small 8vo, pp. xv, [1], [17]-216; 32; original green floral-patterned cloth a bit soiled and worn at extremities, front hinge starting, prelims a bit foxed; all else good and sound. "Theology unconnected with Morality, was a phantom which had seduced or frightened..... More
Washington: Catholic University of America, 1927. 8vo, pp. xviii, 140, [4]; printed paper wrappers; light toning and rubbing to wrapper edges, text clean and sound, very good. A study in two parts: on the syntax from the point of view of the letters' deviations from classical norms, and a survey..... More
New York: George Braziller in association with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1985. First edition, small folio, pp. 192; illustrated throughout, much in color; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
Vienna: Mkhitaryan Press, 1922 - 1924. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [8], 232; [4], 150, [2]; original peach paper wrappers; unopened, number penned on spine, near fine. No. 12 and 13 in the Azgayin matenadaran series. A rough machine translation suggests sections on David Kobayretsi, the Testimony of S...... More
Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1873. 8vo, pp. [5], 6-120; original green cloth; spine extremities and corners scuffed; otherwise very good. Al-Ghazzali was an 11th-century philosopher. Henry Homes (1812-1887) was appointed head librarian at the N.Y. State Library in 1854. More
New England: various publishers, 1791-1806. 8vo, contemporary full sheep, rubbed, but good and sound. 1) [Robbins, Ephraim.] A friendly letter to the Rev. Mr. Cumings, containing several queries upon certain observations in his sermon on natural religion. Newburyport, 1796. 2) Dow, Daniel. Familiar letters, to the Rev. John Sherman, once..... More
N.p., n.d. [Barrington, RI? publisher not identified, 1839.]. Broadside (approx. 14" x 9"), text in a single column beneath the running head, signed in type by Allen at conclusion with the dateline, "Parsonage, March 30, 1839." Sheet slightly toned, previous folds, several marginal creases and tears (2 closed with archival..... More
Worcester: Henry J. Howland, 1838. 8vo, pp. 12; original green printed wrappers; fine. This copy inscribed vertically on the title page: "Rev. William E. Channing, with respects of Geo. Allen." "Report ... to a committee of the Convention of ministers ... of Worcester, called together to express their sentiments on..... More
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. 4to, pp. 46; wrappers wanting, removed from binding; very good. A speech delivered at the Convention of Ministers of Worcester County, with additions, strongly condemning the existence of slavery. Allen rebukes the most common objections and argues that Americans have been using the Constitution as a...... More
Syracuse: Kinney, Marsh, & Barns, printers, 1846. 8vo, pp. 24; text in double column; original blue printed wrappers; stitching renewed, top outer corner of rear wrapper torn away, extremities lightly chipped; good. Columbia, Cornell, NY Historical, Syracuse and AAS in OCLC. More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1836]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 72; engraved frontis illustration, title-page vignette, 5 illustrations in the text (1 full-page); contemporary quarter calf and blue paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt direct on spine; extremities worn, with boards soiled and scuffed and pages with some staining, but overall good..... More
Augustae Vindelicorum [i.e. Augsburg]: Martini Veith, 1744. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. [16], 283, [1]; 587, [1]; 4 folding tables in the pagination; title page printed in red and black, woodcut ornaments and initials; nice enough copy in full contemporary paneled pigskin incorporating a portrait of a...... More
Collegeville, MN: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, 1988-1990. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece, facsimiles; original blue mottled cloth, gilt-lettering to spine and upper cover; fine. Addenda and corrigenda laid into Vols. I and II. Vol. III compiled by Amos and Jonathan Black. More
Collegeville, MN: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, 1988. First edition, 8vo, pp. xlix, [1], 307; frontispiece, facsimiles; original blue mottled cloth, gilt-lettering to spine and upper cover; red ownership label at spine head, else. fine. Vol. I (of three) only. More
London: William Pickering, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 528; engraved frontis portrait, errata slip tipped in at p. [1], 3pp. of music at the back; orig. blue cloth, paper label on spine (a bit chipped); good copy. Does not includes the 18-p. appendix (not included in all copies). On..... More
Salt Lake City: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Co., publishers, 1893. 8vo, pp. [iii]-viii, [1], 10-173, [3] Cannon ads for other Mormon titles; original yellow wrappers printed in red; some soiling, else very good. Flake 81. More
Benton, AK: Printed by L. B. White Printing Co., 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 556; text illustrations throughout, maroon faux-leather boards with gilt title on cover and spine, inscribed by Anderson on title page; foredge stained and nibbled, last few pages dogeared but clean, boards rubbed and bumped. An..... More
Andover [Mass.]: Flagg and Gould, [1815]. 12mo, pp. 12; removed from binding, wrappers lacking; final leaf nearly loose, good. The school was established as a reaction to the Harvard board appointing a liberal to the Hollis Chair of Divinity. Notable alumni listed include Adoniram Judson, an early foreign missionary who..... More
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[Bangalore: The Bible Society of India and Ceylon, 1963]. 8vo, pp. [582]; 2 leaves of maps; original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; presentation slip signed and inscribed by Angus to the Library of the Baptist Missionary Society, mounted to front free endpaper; very good and sound. Cambridge only in OCLC as..... More
Glasgow: printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1765. First Foulis edition, 8vo, pp. 597, [21] (table); modern quarter polished tan calf over marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with gilt rules and elaborate decorations stamped in blind, maroon morocco label; trimmed, toned at edges, occasional spots, overall a very good..... More
Thessaloniki: Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, 1970. 8vo, pp. 148; gray printed paper wrappers, light soiling, near fine. Analecta Vlatadon no. 6. On the codification of the sacred canons and the canonical institutions in the Orthodox Church. More
New York: American Book Exchange, 1880. 12mo, pp. 121; bookplate of Nellie B. Miller & bookseller's ticket on front paste-down, front free endpaper has small hole at lower corner of leaf, corners very lightly rubbed, else a very good copy in original green cloth with gilt-decorated upper cover. Nellie Burget..... More
Providence: H. H. Brown, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Fund, 1831. 12mo, pp. 60; original drab front wrapper; some browning, very good. Preceded by several other editions between 1774 and 1820, this poignant autobiography chronicles the spiritual journey of an independent woman in a patriarchal world. Born in England..... More
