Search Results: Titles starting with L from St. Wulfstans Books

In Bologna, et in Todi: Per Vincenzo Galassi, con Lic. De'Superiori, 1663. Vellum. Very Good +. 3 x 4 7/8 inches. 94 pages with 4 large woodcut illustrations of Death, Heaven, Hell and Angels. Endpaper bears the inscription "Edward Howard Griggs/Florence/March 27, 1895." Bound in later full vellum over thin boards with "Il Pensaci Bene" handwritten in ink to spine and other near contemporary writing to covers, now largely illegible. Griggs was an author and lecturer. de Barry (1587-1661) was a French Jesuit and author. This volume is notable for the illustrations of heaven and hell.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [c. 1970]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: image printed with gilt highlights on cardstock. Back: blank except for printing information. Series: Milano 14. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [mid-20th Century]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/4 x 4 inches. Front: image printed with gilt highlights on cardstock. Back: blank. Series: 104. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [mid-20th Century]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/4 x 4 inches. Front: image printed with gilt highlights on cardstock. Back: blank. Series: 101-7. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

Bamberg: C.C. Buchners Verlag (Rudolph Koch), 1900. Original Cloth. Very Good. 6 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches. vi + [2] + 279 + [3]. A few pencil marks and old owner's stamps. Pages lightly toned. Otherwise pages clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with black lettering and decoration. Covers lightly soiled and spine sunbleached. A very nice clean copy.

Londres [London]: Imprimerie de G. Watts, aux frais de la Societe´ Biblique, Brittanique et Etrangere, 1848. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Approx. 264 unnumbered leaves. Lacks ffep. Binder's ticket, "Watkins Binder" on front pastedown. Pages bright and clean. All page edges gilt. Bound in original full black leather with elaborate and delicate blind stamping and gilt spine lettering. A French language New Testament printed in London, in an exceptional English binding.

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. 283 pages. Old owner's stamp to endpaper and scattered small notes in pencil. Otherwise clean. Bound in publishers' grayish cloth. Covers lightly worn. A very good clean reading copy.

Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. 23 + [5] + vi + 3 - 285 + [2]. Frontispiece of maps depicting islands. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary dark boards. Green spine label. Covers lightly worn. A very good history of Lutheran missionary activities in the Celebes islands.

Königsberg: H. W. Gräfe's Verlag, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches. viii + 338 + [1] pages. Pages uniformly and lightly toned, but otherwise bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in marbled boards with brown leather spine and corners. Spine with gilt title and decoration. Covers lightly worn. A nicely bound clean copy.

Leipzig: Oskar Leiner, 1848. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. xii + 176. Scattered light toning and foxing. Otherwise, pages clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. All page edges rouged. Bound in contemporary dark boards with green spine label. Light wear to covers. A good complete copy. Scarce.

München: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, [c. 1890]. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 3/8 x 8 inches. 118 pages. Pages are bright and clean and free from marking, soiling, and staining. Bound in green cloth with gilt title and decoration to front cover. Covers very lightly worn. A good copy of this scarce work.

Halle: Julius Fricke, 1862. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. [6] + 444 pages. Scattered light foxing. Otherwise, pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary marbled boards. Green spine label. Covers lightly worn. A very good clean copy of this scarce collection of contemporary missionary stories.

Hannover: Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior), 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. vii + [1] + 164 pages. A couple of stained pages, but otherwise pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with black lettering and decoration to covers. Covers lightly soiled and worn. A good clean and complete copy in an attractive binding.

New York: American Book Company, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 187 pages followed by 4 pages of publisher's advertisements. Owner's stamp to one page and pencil notes on rear endpapers. Otherwise pages are clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers lightly worn. A very good clean copy.

USA: Wesco Publications, 1949. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. Front: image and caption on cardstock. Back: blank except for copyright information. Series: none printed.

Hartford, CT: Church Missions Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. 42 + 53 + 15 + 39 + [1] + 52. A collection of biographies of notable Episcopal Bishops in the Soldier and Servant Series. With several illustrations and many pages unopened. Bound in publisher's grey paper over cardstock with printed title and other information on front cover. From the Hart Family library (and with an advert for a biography of Hart by one of the authors). Cover and page edges lightly soiled and sooted (apparently from the fire that destroyed much of the Hart library). From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892,… Read More

[New York]: [Likely The Historical Club of the American Protestant Episcopal Church], n.d. [c. 1880]. First edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 6 x 9 3/8 inches. 16 unnumbered page photo-lithograph facsimile reproduction of letters from Patriarchs of the Eastern Church regarding unity with the American Episcopal Church [see Journal of General Convention (1874) pp. 329-331 for translations and official discussion]. Dampstained. Bound with original string and blue paper wrap. From the library of Samuel Hart. From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892, he became secretary of the House of Bishops. In 1898, he became the fourth historiographer of the… Read More

Viennae, Austriae: Typis Wolffgangi Schwendimann, Universitatis Typ, 1728. Leather Bound. Very Good. 4 x 6 1/4 inches. [4] + 234 + [10] pages. Dampstain to lower corner of first half of book. Small marginal wormhole to first few pages. Title page chipped at top corner. Endpapers lacking. Bound at end is an apparent notice of a contemporary academic debate. Bound in later full brown leather. A very good copy of this work, part biography, of St. Augustine with an unusual contemporary flier bound in.

Leipzig: Georg Böhme , 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 7/8 inches. vi + 177 pages. A few pages toned, but generally bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in black paper over black cloth spine and corners. Green spine label. Covers lightly worn and faded. A very good copy of this scarce work.

Nurnberg: Theo. Stroefer's Kunstverlag, n.d. [c.1890]. First edition. Cardboard Covers. Near Fine. 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. 120 pages. Pages very lightly toned. Else clean and bright. Eleven chromolithographed pages on heavier stock. One loose. All pages edged in silver. Bound in publisher's chromolithographed pictorial cardstock with brown cloth spine. A very nice early art printing of this collection of religious poetry and verse.