Religion from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

[1996]. Watercolor and ink on paper. First two images approximately 3 1/3 x 7 2/3 inches, sheets 5 x 10 inches; third image approximately 2 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, sheet 4 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. Traces of graphite guide lines; graphite inscriptions, L and R, on first and second sheets, respectively. Colored illustrations for Peter L. Bernsteins article,… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. Four books and one pamphlet in two volumes. Quarto. [4],[4],[16],138,[2];[8],262,[2];11; [8],32,188,[2];[6],277,[3] pp., including portrait frontipiece and facing description leaf in first volume and in-text illustration of the Oldenburg Horn on p. 141 of fourth book. Contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titles. Autograph signature of the author on half-title verso of first book, title-page verso of… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Printed and sold by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1815. First Edition. 42 pp. plus one page of publisher's advertisements. Original self-wrappers, stitched. Stamp of Providence Library on front wrapper. Small nicks in front wrapper, edges worn, open tear in lower margin of pp. 35/36. Toned throughout, unevenly in front wrapper and lower outer corner of first several leaves. Good… Read more about this item

Barcelona: Tipográfia de Espasa Hermamos [sic] y Salvat, 1879. Hardcover. Fair. 931 pp. Half title. In Spanish. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, gilt red leather label, marbled endpapers. Binding scuffed, extremities worn. Significant dampstain in lower-outer front board and text block (mostly in margins), causing light loss to corner of binding and front endpapers and chipping to first… Read more about this item

[New York]: Hand set & Printed at Uranian Press by R.O.T. [i.e. Richard O. Tyler], 1960. First Thus. Broadside. Near fine. [ca. 1960]. Broadside, 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Printed in black on salmon paper. Embossed seal of the Uranian Press and rubber stamp of Uranian Tract Society in lower margin. Two horizontal folds, else fine.Fine An early… Read more about this item

New York: Hand Set & Printed by Michael Martin & David Lewis, apprentices at Uranian Press N.Y.C., 1960. Bifolium, [4] pp., with 2 inserted leaves (printed rectos only), all 12 x 9 inches, printed in red and black on brown paper. Light wear at edges, 1 3/4- inch crease in outer edge of first leaf, else near fine. The existential… Read more about this item

[New York]: Uranian Press, 1962. First Edition. Broadside. Near fine. Baer, Dorothy [Tyler]. [ca. 1962]. Broadside, approximately 6½ x 5½ inches. Printed in red on green paper. Embossed with seal of Uranian Press in lower margin. Signatures of Dorothea Baer and Richard O. Tyler over rubber stamps of their monograms on verso. Faint toning at bottom edge, else… Read more about this item

New York: Uranian Press, 1962. First Edition. 9 broadsides, 11 x 8½ inches, in original pictorial paper folder, 11½ x 9¾ inches. Broadsides printed in black and red on pale green paper, folder in red on green stiff paper. Numbered in pencil by Tyler over his rubber-stamped monogram on folder first leaf verso. All broadsides and first leaf of… Read more about this item

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1823. 24 pp. Original plain green wrappers, stitched. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "G. Bond" on front wrapper. Wrappers lightly chipped at spine ends and corners, light soiling to front wrapper and extreme fore-edge, else near fine. An anti-Calvinist pamphlet from the Unitarian Controversy of 1805-1835, insisting upon "right of thought" and separation of church… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids, Mi.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 72 pp. including one full-page illustration. Publisher's brown textured paper over boards, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, else fine. An eschatological exploration of Biblical prophecies relating to Zionism and the coming Jewish rule of Palestine by American fundamentalist evangelist Harry Rimmer (1890-1952). An interesting… Read more about this item

Cincinnati, Oh.: C.N. Morris, 1875. First English Language Edition. 16 pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, else near fine. From the library of Dr. Ephraim M. Epstein, first President of the University of South Dakota, bearing his bookplate. Polemic "Dedicated to all Patriotic Citizens of the United States" by the pastor of Cincinnati's Third Protestant Church on… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin, [1926]. First Edition. 192 pp. Publisher's red cloth in original printed dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly worn and evenly toned. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First edition in English. A series of eight lectures on Origen delivered at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and first published in French in… Read more about this item

[Philadelphia]: Kimber, Conrad & Co., 1805. First Edition. 4 pp. Original plain wrappers, stitched. Minor toning at edges, else fine. Address to Quaker community denouncing the controversial practices of taking promissory notes and entering into joint securities. Signed in print by David Bacon, John Parrish, Jacob Tompkins, John Elliott, Nicholas Waln, and Daniel Drinker.

Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose, 1855. Softcover. Very good. [129]-160 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some wear to edges of wrappers, else fine. Anglophone Quebecer Unitarian periodical, including an article on the Crimean War by Canada's first Unitarian minister, the Rev. John Cordner.

Baltimore, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. viii,48 pp. Contemporary half cloth, gilt, and marbled boards. Square one-inch abrasion to front board, foxing in endpapers. Good to very good.