Rare books from St. Wulfstans Books

[London]: Reprinted without any alteration, [1710]. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 4 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches. 8vo. [168] unnumbered pages. Title page yellowed and chipped at bottom with no loss. First few pages age-toned, other pages bright and clean. U2 and U3 with small losses to lower corners affecting 2 or 3 lines of text with text supplied in neat handwritten facsimile. ESTCN11904. See ESTCS108617 (1546 edition). Half title excised and "reprinted without any alteration" removed from title page. Bound in later full brown calf with "King Henry VIII's Primer" in gilt to spine and light wear to corners and head and tail of spine. A very good copy of the 1710 reprint in 32 lines (scarce in its own right) of the 1546 edition by Grafton altered to give appearance of the even rarer 1546 edition.

Pragae [Prague]: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu Ad. S. Clementem, 1757. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 2 vols. 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches. Vol. 1: 1 ffep + half title + title + 1 - 260 + 7 unnumbered pages + 261 - 644, lacks numbering for 645-46 but collates + 647-696 + 4 unnumbered pages + 697 - 790 + 1 rfep. Vol. 2: Ownership inscription "Collegia Soc. Jesu Confluentia" to front pastedown, 1 ffep + half title + title + 473 numbered pages + 169 unnumbered pages. Both volumes with numerous decorative capitals and printer's devices of styles and methods ranging from post-incunabula to baroque engraving. All page edges rouged. Bound in contemporary white blindstamped goatskin with 2 (of 4) engraved fore-edge clasps. Spines with four raised bands and red spine label with gilt "Institut Societ Jes Tom [number]. A fine and unusual tour de force of Jesuit and printing history, includes excellent example of St. Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises and… Read More

London: Printed by Christopher Barker, 1585. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. ¶3 - ¶8 + A - E (8 leaf quires) + F (5 leaves). Lacks title page and following leaf. Scattered stains and soiling, mostly at margins. Small darker stain at top margin. Loss to lower forecorner of B8 affecting about 12 lines of text. Kalendar printed in red and black. Colophon at end with ownership inscription of John Purkiss dated February 1, 1768. Griffiths 1585/3. Bound with: The Holy Bible [Geneva/Breeches version]. London: Printed by Christopher Barker, 1585. A-3H (8 leaf quires) + 3I (2 leaf quire) + *(4 leaves) + 3K-3Y (8 leaf quires) + 3Z (10 leaf quire). Printed in two column black letter type. Occasional small closed tear with no loss and a few marginal notes shaved (esp. 3O). Lacks preliminaries and 3P4&5. 18th Century notes regarding Purkiss family on verso of NT title page. Herbert 187 (following Herbert 165 and Herbert 170). Bound with: [Herrey, Robert F.]. Two right profitable and… Read More

Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt a.M.]: Sumptibus Joan. Melchiois Bencard, 1686. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. 2 ffep + 96 numbered pages (Libri Infirmorum) + 216 numbered pages (exorcisms and benedictions). With the often missing engraved frontispiece on reverse of half title depicting spiritual warfare at bedside of suffering patient. Title with Library stamp of Capuchin library in Carlstadt. Ffeps with old Capuchin ownership inscription and handwritten notes and prayers. All edges rouged and borders cropped a little close without loss of text. Some pages lightly soiled. Bound in later full brown calf with gilt "Libellus Infirmorum" and six gilt bands to spine. Both boards with gilt borders. Gilding lightly worn. An amazing copy of Italian (Capuchin) rites for exorcism and the combatting of evil spirits. Scarce.

London: Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1633. Leather Bound. Very Good. 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Folio. 2 ffep + A - b (4 leaf quires) + B - H (6 leaf quires) + I (4 leaf quire). Title page cropped and relaid with loss to imprint. Marginal loss to A3 not affecting text. Griffiths 1633/2. Bound with: The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New [Authorised/KJV version]. London: Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1633. [10] + 327 numbered leaves (OT) + 328-403 (of 404) (Apocrypha) + 406-507 (NT). Engraved title to Bible closely cropped at fore-edge. Lower half of last leaf of preface (A8) lacking. Folio 1 of OT with lower marginal loss affecting text. 163 with loss of lower quarter. Old repairs to marginal tears on a few pages. Occasional closed tear or marginal loss with no loss of text, and minor soiling and old marking. Folio 108 misnumbered 118, 117 as 61, 148 as 184, 152 as 154, 216 as 215, 224 as 223, 225 as 226, 232 as 231, 233 as 237, 234 as 238, 235 as 246, then… Read More

London: Printed by B[onham] Norton and J[ohn] Bill, 1629. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 8 3/4 inches. 4to. A2 - A6 + B - H (8 leaf quires). Title page lacking. Printed in two column Roman type. Margins of first two signatures a little grubby with closed tears, and a few pages with marginal losses affecting a few letters of text. Otherwise, pages lightly soiled. G8 with closed tear and old repair with no loss of text. Griffiths 1629/4. ESTCS93878. Bound with: The Holy Bible, contayning the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall commandement [Authorised (KJV) version]. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1629. [6] (introductory material) + 32 numbered pages (genealogies lacking 1, 2, 5-8, 15-16, 21-22). Printed in two column Roman type. Loss to lower quarter of pages 31 and 32. A - Ffff (8 leaf quires). Light soiling and close cropped, but otherwise nice. P2 bound after P3. Lacks… Read More

London: Printed by Robert Barker and the Assignes of John Bill, 1630. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. 84 (of 92) pages. A (8 leaves) + B (10 leaves) + C - E (8 leaves). Printed in two column black letter. Lacks title page (title page for The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English meetre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others. . . dated 1600 bound before BCP) and preliminaries. Griffiths 1630/7. ESTCS123192. Bound with: The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. [Geneva/Breeches version]. London: Robert Barker, 1602. [2] +434 + [4] + 441 - 554 leaves. Printed in two column black letter. Title page with old tissue repairs to margin and lower portion of text. Closed tears to 335 and 462, loss to top corner of 9-11, 32, 324, and 392. Loss to bottom of 131, 145, 198, 210, 235, 248, 454, 458, 459, 486, and 546, and to top half of 165. Lacks 50 (G2), 220, 252, 253, and 289. Several pages misnumbered.… Read More

London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662. First edition. Half leather. Very Good. 7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches. b3 - b8 + c (8 leaf quire) + d (2 leaf quire) + B - Gg (6 leaf quires) + Hh (7 of 8 leaves). Lacks initial 8 leaves, G3, R5, and Hh8. Begins with part of the Act of Uniformity. Kalendar in red and black. Soiled and dampstained. Several pages with contemporary ink notes. Several pages with closed tears that have been repaired with no loss. A few pages with marginal losses affecting text, mostly minimally, and a few other marginal losses not affecting text. ESTCR211954. Griffiths 1662/2. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English Meeter. London: Printed by S.G. for the Company of Stationers, 1661. [19], 153, [16] pages, lacking pages after 139. ESTCR31616. Bound in modern tan half leather with brown buckram boards and new endpapers. True First Edition of the corrected 1662 edition of the English BCP. Very rare.

New York: American Bible Society, 1867. 3/4 cloth. Very Good +. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Folio. [1] + [872] – 974 leaves. Printed in raised letters for the blind. Tears to upper margin of front endpapers and, edges lightly soiled. Bound in contemporary 3/4 black leather and black cloth which is worn at edges. A scarce early American edition of its kind. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, several decades before the widespread adoption of Braille, printers and educators in France and Britain began developing a variety of tactile reading systems for the visually impaired, making independent reading among the blind possible for the first time in history. The results of an important competition at the Royal Society of Arts in Edinburgh in 1832 inspired the American activist, Samuel Gridley Howe, to research and develop his own embossed reading system for the blind, which emerged in 1835 as "Boston Line Type." Drawing upon the methods of James Gall, an entrant in the Edinburgh… Read More

London: John Sturt and John Baskett, 1717. First edition, first state. Leather Bound. Near Fine. John Sturt. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 8vo. 22 + 166 pages. Front hinge and front endpaper expertly reattached by conservator with Japanese tissue. Marbled endpaper and following ffep contain inscription "The gift of Lady Parkyns to her Daughter Anne Parkyns May 7th 1740." Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir William Milman on front endpaper, partially obscuring one of the inscriptions. Small area where a name was erased from marbled endpaper interrupting marbling. Each page beautifully engraved by John Sturt on silver plates. More than 130 engraved vignettes ranging in size from 41 mm x 55 mm to 84 mm x 55 mm, numerous other smaller in-text vignettes, initials, head and tailpieces, etc. Each page with elaborate engraved border. This edition also double red ruled. Volvelle present in original state on page V, thus first state. Pages very clean with small occasional minor smudge. All page edges gilt, with… Read More

London: Printed by Robert Barker, 1615. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 7 x 8 1/2 inches. 4to. B (10 leaves) + C-E (in 8s). Lacks preliminaries. Begins with Communion. Griffiths 1615/4. Bound with: The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages; with most profitable annotations vpon all hard places, and other things of great importance [Geneva/Breeches version]. London: Robert Barker, 1615. Collates as *(4 leaves of NT Preliminaries before BCP) + A-Hhh (in 8s) + Iii (2 leaves) + Kkk-Yyy (in 8s) + Zzz (10 leaves). General title lacking. Bible text complete with light dampstain throughout. A few pages with old ink marks or stains, tears or repairs without loss of text. Top margin closely cropped on some pages. NT title page and preliminaries bound before BCP. Herbert 340/341. Bound with: R[obert] H[errey], Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances, or Large and… Read More

London: Robert Barker, 1611. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. Folio. [78] (of [80]) pages. Lacking title page. Griffiths 1611/2. Bound with: The Bible: That is The holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament. London: Robert Barker, [1612]. [4] + 362 (OT) + 361-444 (Apocrypha) + 135 (NT) + [7] (tables) leaves. Collates as A (4 leaves) + A-Lll (in 6s) + Mmm - Ooo (in 8s) + Ppp - Eeee (in 6s) + Ffff (4 leaves). Engraved title page with old repair to closed tear at bottom. Full page woodcut of Garden of Eden present,with loss to lower outer corner of image. B6 with old manuscript repair to loss at outer corner. Lacks 2Z3.4 (Isaiah 17:13-24:18). Herbert 312. STC 2218. NT with separate title page dated 1611. Printed in two column Roman type. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1612. 114 + [6] (of 8) pages. Collates as A-K (in 6s) + L (1 of 2 leaves, lacking… Read More

Lugduni [Lyon]: Coimpressa Sumptibus honorat. vir. Jacobi. q. Francisci de Giunta Florentini, 4 May 1536. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 6 x 8 1/4 inches. Begins at t(cross)ii, otherwise collates as complete compared with Registrum on last page. First page with large woodcut and printed in red and black. Some light dampstains to lower margins and last four to five lines of text. Printed in two column black letter. With numerous decorated initial capitals and miniatures. Occasional old ink in margins. Title and author in ink to foreedge. Two brands to top edge (an "S" and an "F" with a small circle on to horizontal line of the "F"). Bound in old brown calf over wooden boards, with darkened geometrical designs possibly made with heated instruments. Brass catches, clasps and corners, with brass clasps renewed. Professionally rebacked to style with four large raised bands. Provenance: Convent in Arequipa, Peru, title page excised during the 1884 war with Chile. Although… Read More

London: Philadelphia printed, Re-Printed J. Debrett, 1789. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 8vo. [364] pages including the errata sheet and terminal advertisement. Collates as: a (2 leaves) + b (6 leaves) + A - B (in 6s) + C - P (in 12s) + Q (6 leaves). Handwritten note to ffep in near contemporary hand noting "Rev'd Marshall D. Smith, Passaic, New Jersey. Very rare and therefore to be carefully used and returned to the owner." Small thumbnail sized chip at bottom outer margin of title page with no loss of text. Some light soiling to first half of the text, but pages otherwise clean and free from marking soiling or staining. Top edge brightly gilt. Other edges uncut. Bound in early 20th Century polished calf by Pratt with gilt panels of triple gilt-ruled borders and gilt acorn decorations in corners. Original spine with six gilt decorated compartments and two black morocco spine labels relaid. Extremities lightly rubbed. Griffiths 1789/8. A spectacular and uncut copy… Read More

London: Christopher Barker, 1585. Good. 10 1/4 x 15 inches (text block only). Folio. Lacks leaves before leaf 8. Bible begins at leaf 8 - 536 (OT & Apocrypha) + 137 (NT). A4 + B (6 leaves) + [par.] (6 leaves) + 2[par.] (2 leaves) + A - Tttt (6 leaves) + Uuuu (8 leaves) (OT & Apocrypha) + A - Z (6 leaves) (NT). Small text loss to lower margin/corner of leaf 8, 288, 293, 391, 438 (OT) and 5, 80 (NT), closely cropped on foremargin with slight loss to some notes, more particularly at bottom. Psalter, gospels and epistles rather soiled and worn with closed marginal tears and old repairs. Occasional ink to the margins. Edges soiled. Also lacks 17, 18, 290 (OT), 75, 76 (NT), lower half of 291 (OT), lower one-third of 292, 297 (OT), 33, 106, 121 (NT). Increasing wear to margins towards the end of the New Testament, with 9 leaves following Y3 (title of Revelation) lacking, and a few leaves at the end loose. Separate title pages to Psalter and New Testament complete, outer half of Apocrypha title… Read More