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New York: American Tract Society, 1841. Pale foxing, several leaves dog-eared, light wear to binding at extremities, but overall a handsome copy. Early owner's name in ink on front flyleaf. 8vo. 352 pages. Contemporary tree calf, morocco lettering-piece on spine. First edition.

New York: Bangs & Co, 1880. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Lacks rear wrapper, spine chipped with some associated loss to front wrapper. 8vo. 50 pages. Original printed wrappers; in a cloth folding chemise. Incomplete: lacks pages 35-50. A priced copy. "There is in this catalogue, fifty titles which are rare, and fifty more which are scarce. Be kind enough to help yourselves. 'The Book of Commandments' is the biggest thing, and after that the 'Scrap-book'. The first edition of 'The Book of Mormon' is just scarce enough for everybody to know about and talk about. Rarer books are not so likely to become so famous. As the extent of the collection will cause the catalogue to be frequently referred to, until a bibliography of Mormonism be compiled; considerable care has been executed in the matter of collations" (Preface). The exceedingly scarce 1833 'Book of Commandments', imperfect as nearly always, made a whopping $32. Flake 10005; Mackay 2583; Streeter VII:4420.

London: R[oger] N[ortron] for A[ndrew] Crook, 1670. Paper lightly browned, title with pale browning at edges from binding. 8vo (174 x 110 mm). [32], 221 pages. Lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait. Modern half red morocco, gilt-lettered on spine. Third edition of Sanderson's treatise on oaths. ESTC R34127; Wing S484.

N.p. [possibly Burlington, Wis.], 1893. 8vo. 15 pp. Text in double column. Disbound. Originally published by Strang in Voree, Wisconsin in 1848. Concerns Strang's attempt to prove that he was the rightful heir to Joseph Smith's position as head of the Mormon Church. It precedes the expanded version, 'The Prophetic Controversy.' Flake 8504; Howes S1063; Morgan, Strangite S3.

New York: M'Elrath and Bangs for Carvill, Bliss, Collis et a., 1828. Some rubbing, a few small stains. 8vo. 304pp. Original mottled sheep, red morocco lettering-piece. A collection of 16 sermons from the minister at Heydon Hall, Middlesex.

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1546. Light wear to joints. 4to (196 x 146 mm). 8 leaves. Woodcut medallion portrait of Martin Luther on title, two full page portraits of Luther (dated 1546) and Johann Friedrich I, Elector of Saxony after Lucas Cranach the Younger. 19th-century German decorated paper boards. Provenance: W. Jackson (book label). A German poem written to commemorate the death of Martin Luther in 1546, when the volume was first printed in five impressions (no priority has been established). Walther worked closely with Luther to adapt Catholic church music to Lutheran liturgy. VD 16 W 994.

Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762. Two volumes, 12mo (165 x 97 mm; 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.). Half-titles. xii, 436; viii, 479 pages. Contemporary French cat's-paw sheep, the spine in six compartments with five raised bands, tan morocco lettering-pieces in two, a repeated floral panel in the remaining. A very good copy with light wear to the binding at extremities, some pale browning and intermittent spotting to text, one rust hole on s11 in vol. 1 catching a few letters. FIRST EDITION. This Jesuit relation chronicles violations held by Jesuits in their published writings and is divided into sections on writings against doctrine, sin, blasphemy, sacrilege, magic, astrology, irreligion, Chinese and Malabar idolatry, fornication, perjury, the occult, parricide and homicide, suicide, and regicide. Conlon 62:1260.

Rome: Il Salomoni, 1796. Title and first leaf with small marginal wormhole, title with old book label removed at bottom, partially covering imprint, A2/3 sprung, some pale marginal dampstaining to several gatherings at front, intermittent pale spotting, natural paper crease in lower margin of gathering Nn; binding with rubbing at corners and board edges, spine with some wormtracks. A tall, wide-margined copy in original, unrestored condition, with a contemporary ownership signature on title.. 4to (27 x 19.7 cm). Engraved portrait of Leonardo da Porto Maurizo after Stefano Casabona. In a contemporary Roman binding, speckled calf, smooth spine with with rosettes and floral tools, decorated Italian paper pastedowns, leather lettering-piece. First edition of this biography of Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (1676-1751), the Italian Franciscan preacher and ascetic writer. Under the auspices of Cosimo III de' Medici, Leonard was sent to the monastery del Monte near Florence, and began to hold missions for… Read More

London; New York: The British and Foreign Bible Society; The American Bible Society, 1968. Revised and Expanded from the edition of T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, 1903 edition. Small stain to fore-edges, otherwise a near-fine copy.

Oxford: The University Press for the Author, 1809. First edition. Offsetting on title and some plates, occasional foxing, generally a very good copy. 8vo (238 x 140mm). xxix, 448 pages. 9 engraved plates, some folding. Brown morocco, arms of Rev. Theodore Williams on sides, gilt-lettered on spine, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, by Clarke. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; with an Appendix containing letters and other writings by Nowell. A very handsomely bound copy.

Coloniae: Prostant apud Iacobum à Meurs Amstelodami, 1655. Binding with wear at extremites; pale dampstain throughout the text. Volume 1 only: 12mo (15 x 8.8 cm). [8], 683, [29] pages. Text in double-columns. Engraved title signed I.v. Meaurs and 52 engraved emblems in text. COntemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Provenance: early shelfmark of S. Maurity in manuscript on upper sheet edges. Jacobus van de Walle's laudetory poem is at the beginning on pages [6-10]. The second volume contained an additional 52 engraved emblems. Engelgrave was a Belgian theologian, brother of the preceding, was born at Antwerp in 1610. He joined the society of Jesus in 1628; became successively director and then prefect of the lower classes; directed for fifteen years several convents; became rector of the colleges of Oudenarde, Cassel, and Bruges. The present work was put on the Index at Rome on 27 July 1686, but it was reprinted several times.

Bamberg: Johann Martin Schönwetter, 1677. Covers slightly bowed, spine label chipped, lacks final 2 leaves at end of the index, Hhhh3 with lower corner torn away and loss of text, some browning and occasional foxing. Neatly annotated in several places in ink by a contemporary reader. 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm). [36], 784, [40] pages. Text in double-columns. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, floral decorated endpapers. OCLC 633004507.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Limited edition, number 605 of 1600 copies. Slightest wear to glassine and rubbing to spine, otherwise fine.. Folio. Original black morocco-backed patterned boards; original glassine; publisher's slipcase.

New York: Edward H. Fletcher, 1862. 8vo. 4], xiv, [3], 18-220 pp, 11-page advertisements at end. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait of Bertram, portrait of the author, and engraved title by J. Bannister. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Binding worn, pale browning and dampstaining. Provenance: James L. Ward (contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. "...a most interesting description of Cape Town . which says, 'The habitations . so low and so quaint, with their gables to the streets, covered with whitewash and adornded with venetians, each with its stoop or porch before it after the manner of the old Knickerbockers, seemed exceedingly odd. The small window-panes, and singular sign-boards, and the absence of shop windows, had a singular effect.'" (Mendelssohn, p.119).

London: W. B. for A. and J. Churchil, R. Sare, and J. Tonson, 1704. 8vo (177 x 113 mm). Translated from the French into English by Basil Kenet (1674-1715). [1], lviii, [12], 392 pp. 2-leaf manuscript index at end (wear at edges). 18th-century half calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece. Light wear at extremities, rear hinge cracked, some modest surface cracking along spine, generally handsome. Provenance: David Rockfort (signatures on title; armorial bookplate); Dale Raymond Bengtson (bookplate). Second English translation, following Joseph Walker's version of 1688. ESTC T144329. [Bound with:] STACKHOUSE, Thomas (1677-1752). A Fair State of the Controversy between Mr. Woolston and his Adversaries. London: Edward Symon, 1730. 8vo. xv, 295, [13] pp. With reference to the six discourses on the miracles of our Saviour by Thomas Woolston. ESTC T107869.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. In fine, very well preserved condition. 8vo. 381 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "The poet Li Bo (701-762) has long inspired controversy among readers and critics. Known even during his lifetime as the Banished Immortal, he continues to spark imaginations and challenge passionately held convictions about poetic values. In this lucidly and gracefully written volume, Paula Varsano presents the first full-length study of Li Bo in English in half a century and the first extended look at the poet's critical reception. Persuaded that the essence of his poetry lay well beyond the reach of the usual modes of study and description, readers from the ninth to the twentieth century developed a particularly dynamic critical language. Varsano shows how this language answered the need to conceptualize shifting parameters of poetic creativity over hundreds of years. At the same time, she offers an account of Li Bo's entry into the canon and asks how… Read More

Philadelphia: New Church Congregational Union, 1870. Wrappers lightly browned, with a pale shadow of transecting lines on front wrapper. 12mo (18.5 x 12 cm). 29 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Parsons's paper was originally printed in 'New Jerusalem Magazine.' He has added further text to correct certain misapprehensions of the original text, and to supplement it with with text that would have made it too long for publication in the magazine. Parsons argues emphatically for a recognized ministry, and one that is structured on a firm organization, but, he repeats, "I want a ministry, and not a priesthood." Son of the noted Massachusetts jurist of the same name, Theophilus Parsons, Jr. was a Boston lawyer and literary figure best remembered for the legal texts he authored during his long tenure as Dane Professor of Law at Harvard. He was also a man of literary, philosophical, and religious interests, editing several journals and writing on a variety of topics (including… Read More

Philadelphia: New Church Congregational Union, 1870. A fine copy with a small black mark on front wrapper. 12mo (18.5 x 12 cm). 29 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Parsons's paper was originally printed in 'New Jerusalem Magazine.' He has added further text to correct certain misapprehensions of the original text, and to supplement it with text that would have made it too long for publication in the magazine. Parsons argues emphatically for a recognized ministry, and one that is structured on a firm organization, but, he repeats, "I want a ministry, and not a priesthood." Son of the noted Massachusetts jurist of the same name, Theophilus Parsons, Jr. was a Boston lawyer and literary figure best remembered for the legal texts he authored during his long tenure as Dane Professor of Law at Harvard. He was also a man of literary, philosophical, and religious interests, editing several journals and writing on a variety of topics (including Swedenborgianism, a preoccupation he shared with… Read More

Amsterdam: Printed for J. S. [John Starkey], 1687. A few dampstains and minor foxing. 12mo (143 x 82 mm). 167 pages. Modern calf antique, spine gilt. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this treatise of persecution by Lactantius, often referred to as the "Christian Cicero." This is apparently also the first appearance of any of Lactantius' works in English. In this issue, line 9 of title has "English'd" and the "A" of signature A2 is under the "ct" of "conjectures". The translator of De mortibus persecutorum was the noted British historian and prelate, Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), who wrote several influential histories of Great Britain. To this edition he has added a 52-page prefatory treatise of persecution. ESTC R11018; Wing L142.