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London: London: Printed by John Nichols. Sold by T. Payne and Son, J. Robson, B. White, Leigh and Sotheby, in London: Fletcher at Oxford, and Lewis at Worcester, 1781. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; very large folio; two volumes; Vol.1: [4], xcii, [610]pp; Vol.2: [4], 484, clxviii, [13], 32, [11]pp. In full 19th century crimson leather (rubbed at extremities, spines a little faded, light stain to centre of front board to vol.1), five raised bands to spines, gilt lettering direct to spines in second and third compartments, remaining compartments with gilt tooled panels, gilt date to foot of spines, gilt panelled boards, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Collated complete: Volume I with folding engraved map as frontispiece, 33 engraved plates and 17 pedigrees, many folding. Volume II with 42 Plates and pedigrees. Includes supplement, Domesday facsimile, and with additional plate opposite p.276 of vol.2. Internally a superb clean copy.…
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COMPLETE HAND-RUBRICATED INCUNABULA IN ORIGINAL BLINDSTAMPED WOODEN BINDING: Dialogorum libri quattuor
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SUMMER SALE PRICE REDUCTION FOR LIMITED PERIOD. Basel: Basel: Impressi ac diligentissime correcti per Michael Furter, 1496. Full leather. Very Good. Quarto, printed by Michael Furter, Basel, 1496, with dated closing colophon. COLLATION: 58 leaves (116pp) complete; signatures a8, b-f8, h8, i6. TEXT: double column, 48 lines per page with abundant red decorative initial letters in a contemporary hand. Neat paper repairs to lower margin of first 10 leaves well clear of text, feint unobtrusive paper browning, a clean complete copy. BINDING: Full contemporary blindstamped leather over wooden boards divided by blind fillets into sixteen triangular panels, each containing a rosette, fleur-de-lis, crowned 'M' [Maria] or 'IHS' blind tool (binding lightly worn with neat repair and later gilt-lettered title to head of spine). A very attractive complete copy in its original binding of the Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great, providing accounts of the miracles of the holy men of sixth century Italy together with the life of St.Benedict. An increasingly uncommon incunabula. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: ISTC ig00407000; Goff G407; Hain 7966*; Pell 5359; Polain(B)1704.
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- Keywords INCUNABULA INCUNABULUM INCUNABLE INKUNABELN INCUNABOLI POPE GREGORY GREGORIUS DIALOGORUM ORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY WOOD BOARDS BLINDSTAMPED WOODEN BINDING
Collections for the history of Worcestershire.
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle.
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars., 1855. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. Doyle, Richard. FIRST EDITION; octavo, two volumes complete, viii+380+viii+376pp. In attractive Victorian black half leather over purple cloth boards, five raised spine bands, red and green gilt-lettered leather title labels in second and fourth compartments, other compartments richly gilt, binding with only the lightest of wear and very light fading to cloth boards. With marbled page edges and matching original marbled endpapers. Occasional unobtrusive light stains and browning (especially to outer margins of plates well clear of printed images) but overall a clean copy free from foxing and with full complement of 46 engraved plates (including engraved frontispiece to each volume) and numerous in-text illustrations. Bound up from original parts with small stab holes to inner margins. A very attractive set in first edition.
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The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a continuation of Mr.Hume's History.) In Five Volumes. A New Edition, with the Author's last Corrections and Improvements.
by Smollett, Tobias.
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London: London: Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand; and R.Baldwin, No.47, Pater-Noster-Row, 1791. Full leather. Good. Heath, Caldwell, Collyer et al.. Five volumes complete; octavo; [ii], 515, 574, 548, 510, 390, [unpaginated Index of c.150pp]. In full contemporary speckled calf (worn with loss to extremities, hinges cracked but secure), flat spines divided by gilt double fillets into six compartments, gilt-lettered spine labels in second compartments (but labels to vol.1 missing and partially absent to vols.2 and 4), volume number labels missing from fourth compartments, ink ownership inscriptions to free free endpapers, marginal wormtrack to first 50pp of vol.2 not affecting text, otherwise a sound complete set with a number of attractive engraved portraits. ESTC T55318, citing just four UK institutional locations.
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A compendious history of the British churches in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. By John Brown, Minister of the Gospel in Haddington
by Brown, John (1722-1787)
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Glasgow: Glasgow: printed by John Bryce, 1784. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; two volumes; 340, 368pp. In contemporary full speckled calf (somewhat worn, front hinges cracked but secure), gilt volume numbers and remains of title labels to spines, early ink ownership inscription to half-title of volume 2, sporadic light paper browning but overall a very good complete copy of this uncommon history. ESTC T128905, citing 8xUK and 8xUS institutional copies.
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The Public and Private Life of His late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty, George The Third, embracing its most memorable incidents as they were displayed in the important relation of Son, Husband, Father, Friend, and Sovereign, The Whole Collected from the Most Authentic Sources, and containing a Historical Memoir of the House of Brunswick
by Huish, Robert
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London: London: Printed for Thomas Kelly No. 17 Paternoster-Row, 1821. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition, large quarto; viii + 724pp. In original half leather binding, very worn, boards detached, spine backstrip missing, opening and closing leaves loose with marginal chipping and creasing without loss of text, text block otherwise sound with unobtrusive sporadic light staining and soiling only, complete with engraved portrait frontispiece, extra engraved title page and 16 full page engraved plates. Despite its tired condition, still a complete working copy of this early illustrated biography in first edition.
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
by Peter L. Berger
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Collections for the history of Worcestershire.
by Nash, Treadway Russell
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London: London: Printed by John Nichols. Sold by T. Payne and Son, J. Robson, B. White, Leigh and Sotheby, in London: Fletcher at Oxford, and Lewis at Worcester, 1781. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; very large folio; two volumes; Vol.1: [4], xcii, [610]pp; Vol.2: [4], 484, clxviii, [13], 32, [11]pp. In full 19th century crimson leather (rubbed at extremities, spines a little faded, light stain to centre of front board to vol.1), five raised bands to spines, gilt lettering direct to spines in second and third compartments, remaining compartments with gilt tooled panels, gilt date to foot of spines, gilt panelled boards, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Collated complete: Volume I with folding engraved map as frontispiece, 33 engraved plates and 17 pedigrees, many folding. Volume II with 42 Plates and pedigrees. Includes supplement, Domesday facsimile, and with additional plate opposite p.276 of vol.2. Internally a superb clean copy.…
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle.
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars., 1855. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. Doyle, Richard. FIRST EDITION; octavo, two volumes complete, viii+380+viii+376pp. In attractive Victorian black half leather over purple cloth boards, five raised spine bands, red and green gilt-lettered leather title labels in second and fourth compartments, other compartments richly gilt, binding with only the lightest of wear and very light fading to cloth boards. With marbled page edges and matching original marbled endpapers. Occasional unobtrusive light stains and browning (especially to outer margins of plates well clear of printed images) but overall a clean copy free from foxing and with full complement of 46 engraved plates (including engraved frontispiece to each volume) and numerous in-text illustrations. Bound up from original parts with small stab holes to inner margins. A very attractive set in first edition.
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ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION: A treatise containing the elementary part of fortification, regular and irregular. With remarks on the Constructions of the most celebrated Authors, particularly of Marshal de Vauban and Baron Coehorn, in which the Perfection and Imperfection of their several Works are considered. For the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. Illustrated with thirty-four copper plates. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification
by Muller, John (1699-1784)
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London: London: printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street, in the Strand, 1746. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; xvi,232pp, with full complement of 34 engravings, 33 of which are folding. In contemporary unlettered full calf (a little worn with minor loss to board corners, sometime skilfully rebacked in matching leather), five raised spine bands, internally clean with only the lightest of occasional dust staining. Muller was deputy head of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was instrumental to its transformation into a disciplined cadet academy. An attractive first edition example of his first work. Laurence Sterne possessed the text in second edition, with possible influence on Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim's obsessions with fortification in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. ESTC T176381.
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Tylney Hall
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London: A.H.Baily and Co., 83 Cornhill, 1834. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo, three volumes; xx, 288; 311; 308pp. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards (with light wear only), spines divided into five compartments by double gilt fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively, all page edges marbled, half titles present, small bookselller's and early ownership labels to front pastedowns, very minor loss to front pastedown of volume three probably through label removal, light creasing to first few pages of volume three, unobtrusive spotting to opening and closing leaves of each volume, overall a very good clean copy. Hood's only novel was published the same year as the abolition of slavery and is centered on Walter Tyrell, born in St.Kitts and raised in Georgian society by Sir Mark Tyrell with all the trials and tribulations of racial prejudice this brings. An attractive copy in uncommon first edition of this…
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Convictions
by Donald Coggan
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This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "In this book I have gathered together a number of lectures, sermons and addresses given during the thirteen and a half years in which I was Archbishop of York, and during my opening months as Archbishop of Canterbury...." - Preface from Convictions
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Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents
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This book is in good condition. There is significant wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover. The corners are worn. The previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front cover. The pages are tanned but clear of any marking."Why a new edition of the documents of Vatican II? For eighteen years I have been involved in the translation and publication of official Church documents, including those of Vatican II and its aftermath, and I have long felt that there is need for a volume containing not only the sixteen Council documents, but also as useful a selection as possible of the relevant subsequent official documents, those which dot the i's and cross the t's, as it were, of the sixteen...." - Introduction from Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents
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Mother Earth Spirituality: Native Amercan Paths to Healing Ourselves and the World
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first owner, ,no marks or tearsA dear stream of practical knowledge with the mind change we need to save the life of our Mother Earth--and ourselves
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Poet and Peasant: A Literary Cultural Approach To The Parables In Luke
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Sophia: Aspects of the Divine Feminine Past & Present [Paperback] Schaup, Susanne
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Nicolas -Hays Inc, 1997-09-01. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Schaup, Susanne : Sophia: Aspects of the Divine Feminine Past & Present. York Beach (ME) : Nicolas -Hays Inc, 1997. First edition. Translated from the German by the author. Size is demy octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color wrappers glued to text block, reprod of Andy Warhol's detail take on Botticelli's Venus to front. xxvi pp prelim material, 235 numbered pp, three unnumbered following. Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: Not ex library. No notes or highlighting. Pages clean and binding tight/not creased. Light wear to cover. An wide-ranging study of the ancient notion of sophia - no mention of Hagia Sophia, but you will find George MacDonald, Pachamama, and Jakob Boehme. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL
by Metz, Harold & Thomson, C.A.H
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Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with pencil marking to front fly, light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends, mild soiling to front cover else still bright, intact and whole. JEX 1/21
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The Sunday School Chorister: A Service And Tune Book For The Children Of The Church
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This antiquarian book is in poor condition. There is significant wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards. There are numerous soil stains on the cover boards. The edges are very worn on the cover boards and the corners of the cover boards are bumped badly. The pages are yellowed and tanned and torn The book is free from any markings."The Sunday School Chorister has been compiled, under the direction of the publishers, by one thoroughly acquainted with music and the needs of children assembled in Sunday School. The hymns and carols are selected for the seasons of the Christian Year, together with hymns for special occasions, so as to meet all the demands of the Sunday School. The Litanies for the seasons will be found a very desirable feature to be used in each Sunday's service. The service should always be choral, but an alternate service, to be read, is also given, to be used when so desired...." - Publishers Preface from The Sunday School Chorister A Service And Tune Book For The…
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The Mission Hymnal: As Adopted By The General Convention At Cincinnati In the Year of Our Lord 1910 With Additional Hymns And Chants
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This book is in fair condition. There is significant wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards The edges are also worn and the corners are bumped to the point of fraying. The previous owners name is inscribed on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowed and tanned. This antiquarian book provides all the old standard hymns and the Psalms. A true collector's item.
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Glory & Praise
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This book is in very good condition.There is almost no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards. There is one mark on the back cover board. The edges are as new, and the corners are not bumped. The pages are crisp, white and clear of all markings. "Introductory Rites: The ministerial function of the Introductory Rites is to call together the assembly of a community to listen to God's Word and to celebrate the Eucharist. The Entrance Procession and Entrance Song enables the assembly to enter into the spirit of the celebration, that is, to meet Jesus Christ...." - Order Of Mass from Glory & Praise
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Religion In A World At War
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To be a hundred year old book, it is in very good condition. Minimal wear to the cover. Pages are beginning to tan. Religion In A World At War deals with, very specifically, religions role, place, and cause in war history. it is a justification for all that is good about man, even though, we continue to fight, Another miracle, that this book was published during Word War I.
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