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London: J.H. for H. Mortlock, 1699. Hardcover. See Description. Small 4to. "Fourth Edition." pp. [4], 280. Complete. With frontispiece engraving of the Hon. Robert Boyle. An extra 19th century plate of the author Richard Bentley is also included after the dedication. Bound in modern half calf with marbled boards. Pages are generally clean; a faded name is written with small letters in an early hand on the title page (upper corner); minor chipping to outer edge of title. All edges gilt. Richard Bentley (1662-1742) English scholar and literary critic. He was made keeper of the Royal Libraries and was later appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1692 he was nominated first Boyle lecturer (named after scientist Robert Boyle). He then delivered a series of sermons trying to refute Thomas Hobbes and atheism. In particular, the lectures tried to show how the recent work in physics by Sir Isaac Newton offered proof of Gods existence. Bentley even corresponded with Newton on the…
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The Psalmes of David Translated Into Divers and Sundry Kindes of Verse
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The Folly and unreasonableness of atheism demonstrated from the advantage and pleasure of a religious life
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Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Episcope Carthaginensis et martyris Opera ad MSS. Codices recognita & illustrate studio ac labore Stephani Baluzii Tutelensis.
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Paris: Ex Typographia Regia, 1726. Hardcover. See Description. Tall folio. pp. [2], cxlvii, [8], 608, cccxlvi, [25]. With title page vignette and head and tail pieces. Text in Latin. Bound in full blind stamped period vellum with 7 raised bands on the spine. Front hinge is professionally repaired / strengthened. Pages are generally clean and crisp with a periodic spot of foxing (or miniscule ash burn); an occasional leaf is lightly age-toned. Several pages towards the end of the volume are numbered and signed twice (i.e. 543 544). A front blank fly-leaf contains a 5 x 32 mm hole and an inscription in a small early hand on the verso. Caecilius Cyprianus or St. Cyprian (200-258 c.e.) was Bishop of Carthage and important early Church father. He was beheaded in 258 during the persecution of Christians instigated by the Roman emperor Valerian. Many of Cyprian's writings still exist. His epistles and pastoral letters are an important source of early Church history. He also wrote on the various Church…
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Apostolici : Or the History of the Lives Acts Death and Martyrdoms of Those Who Were Contemporary with or Immediately Succeeded the Apostles as Also the Most Eminent of the Primitive Fathers for the First Hundred Years. To Which is Added a Chronology
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London: Printed By J. R. For Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard., 1682. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. Second Edition Corrected. Small Folio. Very good, rebound in tan calf, with gilt stamped leather spine labels and raised bands. Some scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Half title / Imprimatur / Engraved half title / Title page . [ 36 ] , XXXII, 335 pages. 23 full page engravings of the Martyrs by M. Burghers. Fore edges browned. An excellent copy of the correcred second edition. Large, overweight volume will require extra postage..
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Ancient Funeral Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and The Islands Adjacent, with the Dissolved Monasteries Therein Contained, Their Founders, and What Eminent Persons Have Been in the Same Interred. As Also the Death ....
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London: Thomas Harper, 1631. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Printing of the First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good, rebound in tan calf, with gilt stamperd leather spine labels and raised bands. A little occasional foxing and soil, but really quite clean. 2 old bkplts. This copy includes the second, engraved title page, and the index. Large, overweight volume will require extra postage..
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The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. In Six Volumes
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London: Printed for J. Dodsley (vols. 1 and 2) and for W. Strahan, T. Becket and T. Cadell (vols. 3-6), 1777. Six volumes, volumes 1 and 2 published in 1777 and 3-6 in 1776. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt back with red morocco labels, the Art Deco bookplates of Elise Meyer Rose. Very Good, rubbed at edges, toning to end pages, interiors clean and lovely. Contains 45 sermons. . New Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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The Folly and unreasonableness of atheism demonstrated from the advantage and pleasure of a religious life
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London: J.H. for H. Mortlock, 1699. Hardcover. See Description. Small 4to. "Fourth Edition." pp. [4], 280. Complete. With frontispiece engraving of the Hon. Robert Boyle. An extra 19th century plate of the author Richard Bentley is also included after the dedication. Bound in modern half calf with marbled boards. Pages are generally clean; a faded name is written with small letters in an early hand on the title page (upper corner); minor chipping to outer edge of title. All edges gilt. Richard Bentley (1662-1742) English scholar and literary critic. He was made keeper of the Royal Libraries and was later appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1692 he was nominated first Boyle lecturer (named after scientist Robert Boyle). He then delivered a series of sermons trying to refute Thomas Hobbes and atheism. In particular, the lectures tried to show how the recent work in physics by Sir Isaac Newton offered proof of Gods existence. Bentley even corresponded with Newton on the…
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Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Episcope Carthaginensis et martyris Opera ad MSS. Codices recognita & illustrate studio ac labore Stephani Baluzii Tutelensis.
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Paris: Ex Typographia Regia, 1726. Hardcover. See Description. Tall folio. pp. [2], cxlvii, [8], 608, cccxlvi, [25]. With title page vignette and head and tail pieces. Text in Latin. Bound in full blind stamped period vellum with 7 raised bands on the spine. Front hinge is professionally repaired / strengthened. Pages are generally clean and crisp with a periodic spot of foxing (or miniscule ash burn); an occasional leaf is lightly age-toned. Several pages towards the end of the volume are numbered and signed twice (i.e. 543 544). A front blank fly-leaf contains a 5 x 32 mm hole and an inscription in a small early hand on the verso. Caecilius Cyprianus or St. Cyprian (200-258 c.e.) was Bishop of Carthage and important early Church father. He was beheaded in 258 during the persecution of Christians instigated by the Roman emperor Valerian. Many of Cyprian's writings still exist. His epistles and pastoral letters are an important source of early Church history. He also wrote on the various Church…
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Apostolici : Or the History of the Lives Acts Death and Martyrdoms of Those Who Were Contemporary with or Immediately Succeeded the Apostles as Also the Most Eminent of the Primitive Fathers for the First Hundred Years. To Which is Added a Chronology
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London: Printed By J. R. For Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard., 1682. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. Second Edition Corrected. Small Folio. Very good, rebound in tan calf, with gilt stamped leather spine labels and raised bands. Some scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Half title / Imprimatur / Engraved half title / Title page . [ 36 ] , XXXII, 335 pages. 23 full page engravings of the Martyrs by M. Burghers. Fore edges browned. An excellent copy of the correcred second edition. Large, overweight volume will require extra postage..
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Ancient Funeral Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and The Islands Adjacent, with the Dissolved Monasteries Therein Contained, Their Founders, and What Eminent Persons Have Been in the Same Interred. As Also the Death ....
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London: Thomas Harper, 1631. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Printing of the First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very good, rebound in tan calf, with gilt stamperd leather spine labels and raised bands. A little occasional foxing and soil, but really quite clean. 2 old bkplts. This copy includes the second, engraved title page, and the index. Large, overweight volume will require extra postage..
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The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. In Six Volumes
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London: Printed for J. Dodsley (vols. 1 and 2) and for W. Strahan, T. Becket and T. Cadell (vols. 3-6), 1777. Six volumes, volumes 1 and 2 published in 1777 and 3-6 in 1776. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt back with red morocco labels, the Art Deco bookplates of Elise Meyer Rose. Very Good, rubbed at edges, toning to end pages, interiors clean and lovely. Contains 45 sermons. . New Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Convictions
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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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Fools for Christ’s Sake
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Rare softcover book with no writing or marks published by Africa Evangelical Fellowship (formerly the S. A. G. M. mission) in good condition overall. Circa 1960. All pages and text clean and intact. The outside cover has some wear and discoloration, but interior of book has clean white pages. Very good binding. There is a foreword and an appendix at front and back with dates and data. Contents include 20 chapters about missionary calling and life in Africa, primarily Angola and Mozambique. Obtained in Africa in the 1980's from a British missionary with same mission that published this book.
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Poet and Peasant: A Literary Cultural Approach To The Parables In Luke
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This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A…
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Holy Bible Containing The Old and New Testaments : Red Letter Edition
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Miami, FL: P.S.I. & Associates, Inc., 1987. Words of Christ in Red : Good Minus condition Hardcover Quarto with no dust jacket, 1987 edition. The tiny number/date line below the isbn indicates 1st printing 1986, but oddly, the copyright date above that reads 1987. White padded leatherette boards rubbed and soiled. The binding is shaken. The interior is unmarked, including all the presentation pages, but the pages are noticeably aging.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good -/No Jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Book.
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Strange Journey: The Vision Life of a Psychic Indian Woman
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Illustrated by Tso Yazzy Navajo (Chester Kahn) Solid binding. Some light soiling to exteriors. Clear interiors page. Includes two color and five black and white illustrations. Nonfiction. Native Americans. 68 pages. 5.5" X 8.5 " X 0.25" - 14cm X 21.5cm X 0.5 cm Louise Lone Dog is of Mohawk and Delaware ancestry. She writes about the spiritual and psychic knowlegde of her people and how she hopes for a new Golden Age of Peace built on spiritual rebirth and unity of all men. Focuses on the world of the spirits and its intersection with the light of Christ and series of visions she had between 1948 and 1964.
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Missions-Bibliotheket (The Library Mission) 1917 DANISH Knud Lange: Fra Arunâchalam By (from Arunâchalam City)
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Copenhagen: Danske Missionsselskab, 1917. Hardcover. Good. Missions-Bibliotheket (roughly translated: The Library Mission), Copenhagen, Danske Missionsselskab (Danish Mission Agency), 1917. Half black leather over textured black boards with gold lettering on spine, 12mo (19 cm), dark blue endpapers, marbled edges [iv] [1]-52,[1]-68, [1]-28, [1]-60 pp, Danish text, 1 bw portrait plate. Rare binding of 1917 publications: Fra Arunâchalam By (From Arunâchalam City), ed. by Knud Lange; Fra Persien og Missionen Blandt Perserne (from Persia and the mission among the Persians), by Frede Brondsted f. Stricker; Bâb: Lidt om Persiens Store Laegsel, by Agnes Clausen; Missionsbiskop Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder: Hans Liv og Virke (Mission Bishop Paludan Smith Schreuder: His Life and Work), by A. Olsen. Good: spine and corners worn, light foxing on a few pages, vintage bookbinder's seal on front pastedown, pages crisp, no markings. Reduced
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Solving Your Life’s Problems
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The Debate about the Bible: Inerrancy Versus Infallibility
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Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. Very Good; Edges scuffed, owner name on front free endpaper.. 1977. First Printing. Softcover. 0664241190 . Notes and bibliography. A discussion on the evangelical idea of the Bible being free from errors on any topic whatsoever. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 149 pages .
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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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