Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. Second printing, corrected, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 535; frontispiece, 8 leaves of black and white plates printed on rectos and versos, plain folding map bound at back; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; minor dampstaining to bottom fore-edge only noticeable on verso of..... More
London: printed by Darling & Son, 31, Leadenhall Street, 1840. 16mo, pp. 24; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. Includes a list of subscribers, and 18 extracts from reports of other Sunday-Schools. Not in OCLC. More
[Saint Paul, MN: North Central Publishing Company, 1967]. Edition limited to 1100 copies of which this is no. 86, folio, pp. [6], 29, [1]; illustrations printed in brown, text in brown and black; original brown cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, gilt-lettered spine; about fine. North Central Christmas book..... More
Bristol: printed by J. Chilcott, Wine Street, 1828. 16mo, pp. 21, [3]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. With a list of subscribers, an annual report and financial report. OCLC shows a long run at Queens Borough Public Library in New York. More
Kjobenhavn: Ernst Henrich Berling, 1747. Thick 4to, 2 parts in 1, as issued, each with a sectional title-p.; pp. [8], 682; 596, [4], 60; woodcut initials and headpieces; text in Danish throughout; contemporary and probably original brown calf tooled in blind on the spine, 2 clasps and thongs present; a...... More
Roma: Editrice Anselmiana, 1980. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo; original blue cloth, upper covers and spine lettered in gilt; fine. Studia Anselmiana nos. 77 and 78. More
Providence: printed for the trustees of O[badiah] Brown's Benevolent Fund [by] H. H. Brown, 25 Market-Square, 1834. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; original drab wrappers with an 1834 Burriville, R.I. gift inscription on the front wrapper; very good. First published in the United States in Philadelphia, 1786. A thriving Quaker..... More
Llundain: William Mackenzie, [1870]. Large 4to, pp. iii, [1], 594; steel-engraved frontispiece, 21 plates of maps and illustrations, additional text illustrations throughout, lithographic decorative title page printed in yellow and blue; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over cloth, gilt spine; edges a bit rubbed, cloth unevenly faded, textblock fine. 4 copies..... More
London: Thomas Kelly, 1828. 4to, pp. [2], xi, [1], 3-4, v-vi, [3]-746; engraved title-p. (dated 1823) and frontispiece, 13 engraved plates; full contemporary diced calf by Pittman of Salisbury, with his stamp in gilt on front free endpaper, decorative gilt border enclosing an elaborate central panel decorated in blind, spine..... More
Milton, PA: Printed by Henry Frick, for M'Carty & Davis, Booksellers, Philadelphia, 1818. 8vo, pp. xiii, 346; woodcut vignettes; full contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label; 1/4-inch loss to bottom of spine, edge wear, corners rubbed; endpapers foxed, dampstaining throughout, including title page; overall a very good copy. Shaw..... More
Providence: H. H. Brown, printer, March, 1828. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; original printed blue front wrapper, rear wrapper perished, the whole rebacked with gray library cloth; good copy, or better. Rhode Island College was re-named Brown for Nicholas Brown II in 1804 in the wake of large gifts from..... More
London: Samuel Bagster, 1901. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 506; text in triple column; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; a little spotted and cloth cracking at the top and bottom of the front joint; good and sound. More
Burlington, Vt. V. Harrington, 1843. First edition, 8vo, pp. 40; removed from binding, wanting wrappers; very good. An edition was also published in Boston, but the Burlington edition is far more rare. "Pronounced before the Gamma Sigma Society, of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., July 26, and repeated before the alumni..... More
Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis academiae typographi, 1765. Foolscap 8vo, pp. [4], 250, [2]; contemporary calf recently rebacked to style, red morocco label on spine, edges stained red; endpapers renewed, boards rubbed and bumped; a good, sound copy. Buchanan was considered the greatest Latin writer of 16th-century Europe, with..... More
Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1885. 8vo, pp. [4], viii, 200; full blue limp cloth, title in silver; light fading to spine, else fine. More
Philadelphia: published by Joseph J. Woodward, no. 35 Dock Street, 1826. 8vo, pp. 615, [1]; text in double column, composite frontispiece showing portraits of 5 theologians: Luther, Calvin, Fox, Wesley and Whitfield; general wear but still a good, sound copy in full contemporary sheep, red morocco label on spine. This..... More
Jena: Meyerischen Buchladen, 1724. Small, thick 8vo, pp. 743, [21]; woodcut vignettes throughout; bound with: Herrnschmid, Johann Daniel, "D. Joh. Daniel Herrnschmids...Reflexions uber den Abtritt von der evangelisch-lutheranischen zu der römisch-catholischen religion, samt einer kurtz-gefaszten Aufdeckung der pabstischen staats-theologie," Jena: Joh. Friederich Rittern, 1725, pp. 176; frontispiece, title page printed..... More
Hyde Park, New York: University Books, n.d., [1958. Small 8vo, pp. xv, [5], 234; a few tables and illlustrations in the text; fine copy in original yellow cloth, dust jacket slightly faded at the extremities. Budge, Keeper of the Egyptian Collection at the British Museum 1894-1924 offers a clear and..... More
Ristigouche P. Q. Freres mineurs capucins Ste. Anne de Ristigouche, 1913. 12mo, pp. 306, [2]; bound with: Gtapegiemgeoel. Cantiques. pp. 32; 112 zinc-block illustrations throughout; red buckram with gilt title on upper cover; red stained edges; light toning to lower cover, else near fine. Text in Mi'kmaq translated by Pacifique..... More
Ristigouche P. Q. Capucins, 1913. 12mo, pp. 128; bound with as issued: Gtapegiemgeoel [= Canticles]. pp. 32; 54 zinc-block illustrations; text in Mi'kmaq; green paper covered boards backed in blue cloth; covers lightly stained, very good. The date on the cover is noted as 1921, though the text clearly comes..... More
Ste Anne de Restigouche: [n.p.], 1917. 32mo, pp. [2] 348; text in Micmac; black buckram with red stained edges, near fine. Office Services in Micmac. Pacifique de Valigny, née Henri-Joseph-Louis Buisson, was a Capucin French missionary who wrote and published a number of religious materials for the benefit of the..... More
London: Longman, Brown [et al.], 1858. 12mo, pp. xii, 239; publisher's full brown divinity-style morocco with blindstamped geometric panels on covers enclosed by a triple blind-rule border, spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered in 1, black lozenges in 4, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; some rubbing to the joints, otherwise very good. "Hymns..... More
London: printed for J. Hodges, W. Millar [et al.], 1791. 12mo, pp. 307, [1]; contemporary full sheep; both covers stitched back on with thread (an interesting, early repair), top inch of spine perished. Famous allegory by Bunyan first published in 1682. More
Seattle: Hermetic Press, [1995]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 189, [1]; text illustrations, full black cloth gilt, fine in fine dust jacket. A foundational work on the philosophy of magic. Burger was an accomplished magician and philosopher, having graduated from Yale's Divinity School. His Magic & Meaning was one..... More
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1762. Third edition, 8vo, pp. [6], xli, [1], 208; contemporary speckled calf, gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments, paper label in 1 with title in manuscript, red speckled edges; bound without endpapers, exposing triangulated flyleaves, signature on title page excised, text clean and sound;..... More
