London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, [1766]. First Edition. Octavo. 118 pages. Bound in 19th century boards with leather spine and tips with gilt lettering to spine. Chipped at extremities with loss to bottom of spine. General scuffing and rubbing to boards. Ownership stamp..... More
Cincinnati: Swormstedt & Poe, 1855. Later edition. 16mo. 166, [2[, 197 p. Original blue-green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. First published in 1844-1845, the memoirs of a retired itinerant Methodist minister. Boards worn with exposure. Hinges starting but binding holding. Foxing to pages but overall text legible. [Howes S-953]. More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1971. Octavo; xlix, 196pp. Blue-gray boards with gilt lettering and emblem. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their bookplate to front pastedown and usual markings. Boards are sturdy and square with some light smudging to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Surface abrasion from removed card pocket on rear..... More
Evansville: Antes Press, [n.d., but 1928]. First Thus. Large, slim octavo; publisher's blue blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 127pp. A few tiny surface scratches to boards, else Fine. Letters by the 19th-century Austrian Catholic missionary in Utica, New York, and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin territory, translated from the original German. First..... More
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First Edition. N.p.: 1934. Quarto (28cm.); original black cloth, printed paper label mounted to upper cover; [5],350ll. printed mimeographed from original typescript, pagination added in blue ink manuscript; original pencil and ink drawing signed "J. Taylor" bound in place of half title. Cloth a bit soiled and worn at extremities..... More
Newburyport, MA: From the Press of E.W. Allen / for Sale at the Bookstore of Thomas & Whipple, 1804. First Edition. Octavo; removed, old remnants of spine leather; 28pp. ([A]4 B-C4 D2, collated and presumed complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Brief soil to title page (serving as upper cover), occasional..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1859. "Thirty-Seventh Edition, much enlarged." Thick octavo; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; vi,[7]-554pp.; engraved frontispiece, twenty-two (22) leaves of plates including folding map. Leather extremities a bit scuffed and rubbed, spine rather cocked and crown pulled..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Board of Foreign Missions / Reformed Church in the United States, 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 157 pp. 30 photographic plates, including frontispiece; black and white map, complete. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light wear to edges and spine ends mildly nudged. Binding is sound and..... More
[New York]: Printed for the Subscribers, 1860. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, reddish-brown glazed endpapers; vi,[7]-368,11,[1]pp. Cloth a bit scuffed at extremities with brief exposure at corners, shallow losses at spine ends, faint horizontal repair to front pastedown and endpaper, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1845]. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's navy blue sheep over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; 35pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Boards rather worn with large loss of marbled paper from rear cover, corners exposed, repaired loss along bottom of pp. 23/4 affecting text with brief loss of meaning, textblock..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1829. First U.S. Edition. 12mo. 252 pp. Bound in contemporary green morocco over marbled boards with gilt stamping to spine; edges stained yellow. Light wear to edges and joints; mild soiling to spine; chip to base of spine; corners bumped with brief exposure. Binding is sound..... More
Hartford: Lincoln & Gleason, 1808. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary flame calf, brown gilt-lettered spine label; 476pp. ([A]-3M4, collated and presumed complete); steel engraved portrait frontispiece and three plates. Moderate rubbing to leather extremities as well as brief peeling to upper cover, occasional foxing to textblock, more heavily to plates..... More
V.p.: v.i., 1826-1838. Mixed Editions. 12mo (18cm.); contemporary sheep over marbled boards. Contemporary library markings including spine shelf number and ex libris mounted to upper cover, neat manuscript table of contents affixed to front pastedown, hand-made paper fore-edge tabs, general scuffing to extremities, leather a bit dried, else Very Good..... More
Montauban: Victor Bertuot, 1862. First Edition. Octavo; [2],ix,[1],89pp; sepia-tinted frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 tinted; additional text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Extremities and spine bands rubbed, leather rather dry; interior fine. Pilgrim's guide to the newly..... More
London: R. Baldwyn, 1681. First Edition. Small quarto; removed pamphlet with perished stitching and gatherings subsequently loose; 40pp. (A-E4). Extremities rather toned and dust-soiled; Good overall. Scathing religious tract questionably attributed to the early Whig politician Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683). The tract excoriates what..... More
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth, printed paper spine label; viii,[13]-328pp. Some shelf wear, especially at spine ends, spine cloth toned and label's text mostly effaced, light foxing throughout textblock, else Very Good and sound. Pencil and ink ownership inscription of..... More
Three volumes in one. Folio (34.5cm.); full contemporary calf, gilt emblem to both boards of an "A.R.", gilt-ruled spine in five compartments; woodcut title page vignettes and initials throughout. Leather rather worn with mid-19th century repairs to extremities, else a Very Good example of three early Parisian editions of the..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1931. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,296pp. Dust jacket verso backed in archival tissue by prior owner with rather extensive color touchups to external margins, with evidence of earlier shallow chips at spine ends and some tears along folds; cloth..... More
New-York: J.E.D. Comstock, [1847]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; vi,[153]-426,[2],[9]-148pp.; 24 leaves of plates including 12 colored botanicals, woodcuts throughout text. Boards rather rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription of a Mary Hart to front free endpaper, rear endpaper torn away, else Very Good and sound, complete..... More
Hartford, CT: American Society of Church History, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, dark green and gilt spine titling, green topstain; vii,[1],215pp. Light wear and toning to extremities, brief soil to bottom textblock edge, endpapers toned, later ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good, sound copy. Cancel..... More
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Jerusalem, Israel: Boys Town Jerusalem Publishers, 1962. Two octavo volumes. 381 pp.; 415 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. English translation facing Hebrew text. Moderate shelfwear to boards; spines faded. Bindings sound. Ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, but pages otherwise unmarked. More
Glasgow: Printed by William Smith; Sold at his Shop, in the foot of the Salt-mercat., 1776. Two volumes; 12mo; full contemporary calf, red and green spine labels, spine in six compartments; x,[iii]-vi,7-474; vi,[3]-412,[16]pp. (collated and presumed complete despite errors in pagination). Light wear to extremities, contemporary ownership signatures to front..... More
Rutland, VT: Fay & Davison, 1816. First Edition. Thick octavo; full contemporary sheep, gilt spine, all edges stained yellow (presumably at a later date); vii,[8]-636pp. (collated complete). Minor scuffing to leather extremities, some peeling to upper cover, endpapers foxed, mid-20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. First Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine label; x,305[1]pp. (A-2B6 2C4, collated complete). Light shelf wear, endpaper margins quite browned, occasional spotting throughout textblock, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good and..... More
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown..... More