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1766 Prompta Bibliotheca Franciscan Ferraris Church Encyclopedia & Canon LAW 8v

In 1746, Franciscan historian Lucius Ferraris published one of the most important 18th-century religious and theological encyclopedias. 'Prompta Bibliotheca' covers the entirety of ecclesiastical activity leading up to the mid-18th-century, as well as canonic law in Italy.

Item number: #7647
Price: $750
FERRARIS, Lucius
A. R. P. F. Lucii Ferraris Soler- Alexandrini Ord. Minor. Regul. Observ. S. P. Francisi Pectoris Jubilati- Exprovincial. Examin. Synod. et Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica nec non ascetica, polemica, rubricistica, historica de principali oribus et fere omnibus, quae in dies occurunt, rici penes pmnes facile, ac prompte reperiri possunt, ex utroq. Jure Pontificiis contitutionibus, Conciliis, Sacrar. Congregationum Decretis, Sac. Rom. Rotae Decisionibus ac probotissimis et selectissimis auctoribus accurate collecta, ad aucta, in unum redacta, et ordine alphabetica congesta et in… Read More

1688 1ed Old Testament BIBLE 50 Figures ART Adam Samson Methuselah David Doujat
Jean Doujat was a 17th-century French lawyer known for his studies in canonic law. In addition to his law career, Doujat wrote a book on the history of Old Testament figures such as Adam, Methuselah, Nimrod, Isaac, Job, Debora, Samson, David, and Isaiah. Each entry features a small woodcut engraving – a portrait of the biblical character.
Item number: #19031
Price: $750
DOUJAT, Jean
Éloges des personnes illustres de l'Ancien Testament, pour donner quelque teinture de l'histoire sacrée ...
Paris : Impr. de G. Martin, 1688. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[16], 99
o 50 engravings
· Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4.75in (17cm x 12cm)
· Rare and desirable
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1738 BIBLE Book of Common Prayer Illustrated Baskett + Psalms of David Anglican
In 1712, John Baskett began printing the Book of Common Prayer, shortly after the success of the 1710 New Testament. Baskett was the printer to the king during the first half of the 18th-century. This edition is bound with 'A Companion to the Altar' – an important supplement to the 'Book of Common Prayer'. It helps clarify and manage the Holy Sacraments, prayers, meditations, and aspects of worship in the Church of England.
This impressive tome features exquisite full-page engravings of portraits of saints and Bible scenes.

Item number: #19773
Price: $750
Church of England
The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church
London : Printed by John Baskett, 1738.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 48 copper engraved plates
· Provenance: Handwritten
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Sarah Marsh
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George McA[llo]pe
· Language: English
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1558 Reformation Musculus De Usuris Verbo Dei Bible Commentary Ambrose Aquinas
Wolfgang Musculus was a 16th-century Protestant reformer who wrote numerous biblical commentaries and theological treatises. One of his commentaries was 'De Usuris ex Verbo Dei', a short appendix noting the commentaries of famed theologians such as Ambrose, Aquinas, with Chrysostom and their notes on the Old Testament.
Item number: #19780
Price: $750
MUSCULUS, Wolfgang
De Usuris ex Verbo Dei. Appendix ex libro, quem V. Musculus ... scripsit in Psalmos
[Tubingen: Ulrich Morhart], 1558.
Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[38] unnumbered leaves
· References: USTC 631912
· Provenance: Stamp – Franziskaner Kloster Dettelbach
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The Franciscan Monastery Dettelbach is a former monastery of the Franciscan Observants in Dettelbach, Bavaria in the Diocese of Würzburg. The founding and establishment of the branch is closely related to the pilgrimage church Maria im Sand, also in Dettelbach. In… Read More

1701 RARE French Holy Bible Biblia Sacra Vulgate de SACY 2v Jerusalem Israel MAP
An extremely rare mid-18th-century French Holy Bible and commentary. This de Sacy edition is translated directly from the Vulgate and is accompanied by de Sacy's own commentary as well. Printed in 1701, this two-volume edition was collected and edited by Pierre Thomas du Fosse and Charles Hure.
Item number: #20153
Price: $750
de SACY, Louis-Isaac Lemaistre

La Sainte Bible contenant l'Ancien et le Nouveau Testament ; traduite en françois sur la Vulgate
Paris : Guillaume Desprez, 1701.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
o Vol. I – xix, [1], 885, [3]
Includes double-page map
o Vol. II – [2], 806
· References: edition not in Darlow & Moule
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~10.25in X 8in (26.5cm x 20.5cm)
· Rare and desirable
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1662 Jesuit Drexel BIBLE & Commentary RARE Esoteric ART German Pigskin Clasps
"All wizards and witches are the professed and sworn enemies of God. O prince, O King, let not witches live!"
– Jeremias Drexel
Jeremias Drexel was a 17th-century Jesuit writer and preacher, who ultimately gave up preaching to teach and write. His works surround Christian living, truth, and virtues of life. This tome from the 1662 edition of the complete works of Drexel includes his commentary on Old Testament books.
An impressive vellum-bound tome!
Item number: #20579
Price: $750
DREXEL, Jeremias
Hieremiae Drexelii opera omnia, hiebevor in lateinischer Sprach beschrieben, hernach ... in das Hochdeutsche versetztet ...
Würzburg: Schönwetter, 1662.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[8], 561 (i.e. 549), [3]; 76; 77, [3]; [124 leaves]
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4 engravings
· Language: German
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
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Includes two clasps
· Size: ~9.5in X 7.75in (24cm x 19.5cm)
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1790 Handwritten German Bible Manuscript Prayer Devotion Konigliche Fraktur ART

A rare, 18th-century handwritten German manuscript. This small book, written in 1790, is a Catholic devotional and prayer book, with sections dedicated to prayers for morning and evening, prayers to Mary and Joseph and the apostles, and meditations for taking of the sacraments and on holy days. While the contents are important, the beautiful, hand-drawn color borders and endpapers, along with the beautiful penmanship make this book a fine work!

Item number: #21676
Price: $750

Unknown author

Konigliche halszierde

1790

Details:
• Collation:
o [4], 188 (i.e., 180), [19]
• Language: German
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.25in X 4.25in (16cm x 10.5cm)

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1685 1ed Religion & Loyalty ROME Jovian Theodosius Justinian I Oxford Parker

Samuel Parker was a 17th-century Bishop of Oxford known for his Calvinist theology and service to James II. While in office, he wrote numerous theological treatises most of which were filled with heavy attacks against dissenters. One such work was his "Religion and Loyalty", first published in 1685. In the second part of this work, published a year later, Parker discusses the state of the early church as it was during the 4th-century reigns of Roman emperors Jovian, Valentinian, Theodosius, among others, through the mid-6th-century and Justinian I.

Item number: #22231
Price: $750

PARKER, Samuel

Religion and loyalty, the second part, or, The history of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the government of the church

London: John Baker, 1685. First edition.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o [12], 586, [2]
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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1782 HOLY LAND Maps Jerusalem Erhard Christian Hausbuch German Bible Devotional

A rare, large 18th-century German devotional by Caspar Erhard. 'Christian Housebook' is an important historical account of the life of Jesus Christ, supplemented with prayers, Bible stories and commentary, scripture explanations and references. This work contains incredible, full-page engravings including a double-paged city view of Jerusalem!

Item number: #22522
Price: $750

ERHARD, Caspar

Caspar Erhard's, ... Christliches Hausbuch, oder: das große Leben Christi, mit ausführlichen, kräftigen und andächtigen Betrachtungen, Gebeten und Geschichten zur Erklärung und Verehrung des schmerzlichen Leidens unsers Herrn und Erlösers Jesu Christi, erster theil

Augsburg: Riegers, 1782.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1
o XVI, 549, [3]; 261, [3]
o 11 copper engravings + 2 folding maps
§ Map of the Holy Land
§ City view of Jerusalem
· Language: German
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1794 FOLIO Common Prayer BIBLE Church England Psalms Harding Good RARE Anglican
A beautiful and impressive printing of the Church of England's 'Book of Common Prayer' published by Oxford. This popular devotional and supplement to the Bible was a critical part of the early English Church liturgy and doctrine. However, this edition, the 1794 Good and Harding edition, is considerably rare and valuable. It is known for its exquisite binding and the impressive full-page engravings of Bible scenes.
Item number: #22649
Price: $750
Church of England
The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David
London: printed by Millar Ritchie, for J. Good, E. Harding, 1794.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
· Common Prayer – xxx, 683, [1]
P. xxvii-xxx duplicated
· Psalms – [4], 160
· Companion to the Altar – 70
· 11 engravings
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1686 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Holy BIBLE Sixtus V Apocrypha Guillimin Lyon France

A very rare, mid-17th-century Vulgate Biblia Sacra published in 1686 by Petri Guillimin. This edition contains a beautiful, engraved title page with allegorical Bible scenes. In addition to the Old and New Testaments, this edition contains books of the Apocrypha.

Item number: #22701
Price: $750

Biblia Sacra

Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti V. Pont. Max. jussu recognita atque edita versiculis distincta

Lugduni: Petri Guillimin, 1686.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [8], 959, [1]
· Provenance: Handwritten – Petri Ludovici Theodolpi Boulland
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~7.5in X 4.75in (19cm x 12cm)

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1634 BIBLE ART Zachmoorter Catholic Church Dutch Reformation Flanders Antwerp

Michiel Zachmoorter was a Dutch priest known for his defense of the Catholic Church and leadership in Flanders in the Counter Reformation. One of his best works was his "Sponsus Sanguinum", a collection of meditations and prayers following the Catholic stages of Jesus's journey to the cross.

Item number: #22751
Price: $750

ZACHMOORTER, Michiel

Sponsus sanguinum Den bloedigen bruydegum : vertoont in XX meditation

Antwerpen: Geeraerde van Wolsschaten, 1634.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [48], 288
o 20 engravings, plus engraved title page
· Provenance: Handwritten – [Capuweri Mayers]
· Language: Latin & Dutch
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.5in X 3.25in (13.5cm x 8cm)
· Quite rare

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London: The Soncino Press, 1935. 1st Edition . Original Cloth w. Dust Jackets. Very Good. 8vo- Big. 1935-1952. COMPLETE SET of 35 volumes, incl. Index Volume. Upper edges gilt. WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS. Two of the volumes have the original dust jackets from other volumes (originally from other volume numbers) and have a small paper label added to fit them to their correct volume number (please see last photograph) On one volume the dust jacket has a small missing part at the spine side only. OTHERWISE A VERY GOOD , CLEAN AND FRESH COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION OF THE FAMOUS ENGLISH SONCINO TALMUD. (very heavy item: 3 parcels of a total over 50 kg , additional shipping fees will apply for US postage+ $ 400, to Europe postage+ $ 180)

1699 ENGLISH Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Stanhope Prayers Bible London

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Thomas a Kempis's most famous and important work has, for centuries, been 'The Imitation of Christ.' It has widely been known to have influence important Christian conversion including that of John Wesley and John Newton. This 1699 English edition of Kempis was edited and translated by George Stanhope, a renowned English editor of early church works.

Item number: #23757
Price: $750

KEMPIS, Thomas a

The Christians pattern: or, A treatise of the imitation of Jesus Christ In four books

London: printed by W. Onley, for M. Gillyflower, 1699.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], ii, iii, [5], 271, [1], ii, 38
o Engraved frontispiece
· Provenance: Handwritten – [John Besly, 1739]
· Language: English
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1871 BEAUTIFUL World History ILLUSTRATED Rome Greece Persia Caesar Bible Turkey
Evert Duyckinck's "History of the World" is an absolutely fascinating 19th-century history! As expected, a book like this would contain countless topics; however, Duyckinck focuses on the histories of countries – big and small – beginning with foundational topics found in the Old Testament. It contains descriptions of Persia and Arab lands, the Holy Land, Greece and Macedonia, Turkey, Rome and the Roman Empire, and much more!
This impressive four-volume set was published in New York by Johnson and Fry with fine engravings!
Item number: #23702
Price: $750
DUYCKINCK, Evert A
History of the world from the earliest period to the present time
New York: Johnson, Fry, [1871-73]. 1st edition
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes
o Vol. I – [2], iv, 5-640
14 steel-engraved plates (including engraved frontispiece and title page)
o Vol. II – [4], 640
17 steel-engraved plates (including engraved… Read More