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New York: American Tract Society, 1867. Twentieth. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus, hardcover twentieth edition. Burgundy cloth, embossed boards with some shelf wear. Gilt spine titling. Pencilled location on first free endpaper. Duodecimo 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall.
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Ecce Coelum; or Parish Astronomy
by A Connecticut Pastor [Enoch Fitch Burr]
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La morale pratique de lEglise sur les preceptes du Decalogue: ou la maniere de conduire les Ames clans le sacrement de penitence Séconde édition. {Volume 1] [The practical morality of the Church on the precepts of the Decalogue: or the manner of leading Souls in the sacrament of penitence]
by Jean Grancolas
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Paris: Imbert de Bats, 1701. Second Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A rare second edition. Volume I only. Held by only four national libraries worldwide, according to Worldcat. No auction listings in RBH. No others on the market. Text in French. Full French leather binding with five raised bands. Ornate gilt spine titling and decorations. Laid paper. Hand marbled end papers.. Defunct parochial library stamp on first free endpaper. Previous owner's name on title page. Swells when laid flat, but no water damage. 551 pp.18mo. 4 x 6 1/2 tall. Very good. Leather bound (Hand bound) Grancolas, Jean, Doctor of the Sorbonne, theologian, liturgist; b. near Chateaudun, about 1660; d. at Paris, August 1, 1732. Having received the degree of Doctor of Theology of the faculty of Paris in 1685, he became chaplain to the brother of Louis XIV. He pronounced the funeral oration of this prince, but his panegyric displeased the son of the deceased, the Duke of Orleans, future Regent of France, who…
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The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments
by Elbert Hubbard; The Roycrofters
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New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1927. First Edition. Stiff boards. Near fine. A very good first edition hardcover by the Roycrofters. No dust jacket. Aquamarine cloth covered, stiff boards with black title stamping on front cover and spine. Photo endpapers of Roycroft campus.Fading to back cover. No date on title page. Binding is sturdy and square. Text is clean and bright. Copyright 1927 by the Roycrofters. Letterpress printing. 208 pp. plus 6 [vi] pp. index. Octavo, 6 & 1/2 x 9 & 1/2 inches tall. Best known as the the initiator of the Arts and Crafts community, Roycroft, Hubbard was an anarchist, socialist, and followed a philosophy of mental and spiritual freedom. Some of his works, which include Jesus Was an Anarchist and a A Message to Garcia, were listed as offensive by the US government. He and his wife died aboard the Lusitania.
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The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard
by Elbert Hubbard; The Roycrofters
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New York: Wm. H. Wise, 1927. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. A gorgeous letter press first edition by the Roycrofters. Green and tan stiff paper wraps, tied with green ribbon, and titling in red on cover. Ornate orange drop caps with black type, printed on hand-molded paper. Mottoes printed on grey inserts, centered and decorated. Moderate, even, wear to all edges of cover. A beautiful example of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and a return to traditional book making. Laid in is an original certificate to purchase mottoes "suitable for framing," and two examples of the same handmade paper showing ads for the Notebook of Elbert Hubbard and for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. 220 [4] pp. with index. Quarto, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches tall Best known as the the initiator of the Arts and Crafts community, Roycroft, Hubbard was an anarchist, socialist, and followed a philosophy of mental and spiritual freedom. Some of his works, which include Jesus Was an Anarchist and a A Message…
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The fate of man
by Crane Brinton, ed.
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New York: George Braziller, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. A near fine first edition, first printing, as stated, in an original unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket showing creases, shelfwear and loss at crown and foot. 532 pp. Octavo. Throughout Man's long and checkered history he has never ceased to ask: What is the meaning of my life? What is my place in the Universe?...These are the qustions asked --- and the answers offered--- in the great writings of the Western world..." (From the dust jacket)"Crane Brinton was McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University at the time of his presidency. He was also the author of The Jacobins: An Essay in the New History (1930), English Political Thought in the 19th-century (2nd edition, 1949), Ideas and Men: the Story of Western Thought (1950), The Shaping of the Modern Mind (1953), and A History of Western Morals (1959)" _ AHA42: From Plato to Darwin
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