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Suffolk-Lane, London: William Du-Gard. 1652. poor. Hardcover. ...Which in his life time he held with divers learned men such as were Philip Melanchthon, Caspar Crucige, Justus Jonas, Paul Eber, Vitus Dietericus, Joannes Bugonhagen, Joannes Forsterus, and others) containing questions and answers touching religion, and other main points of doctrine, as also many notable histories, and all sorts of learning, comforts, advises, prophesies, admonitions, directions, and instructions. Collected first together by Dr. Antonius Lauterbach, and afterward disposed into certain common places by John Aurisaber. Translated out of the high Germane into the English Tongue by Cpt. Henrie Bell. Incomplete only 494 pages (missing pages 495 - 541, frontis, & end pages); small woodcuts on title page & some chapter heads; tears to fore edge of pages; old sewn repair to binding; ink marks inside front cover; pages toned & soiled; approx. 8.5" x 13" tall; disbound with original leather boards with heavy… Read More

London: Printed for C. Hitch & L. Hawes, et. al.. 1757. poor. Hardcover. 7 & 40th impression. 4 Sermons upon the 20th Chapter of the Revelations + 2 sermons on the 1st chapter of the Canticles, verses 6 & 7. 6" tall; 138pp; some old ink notations in margins; pages toned & brittle; chipped title page & front cover detached; sewn binding no longer holding contents together; missing back cover; no back strip .

Dublin, Ireland: Robert Jackson. 1790. poor. Hardcover. volume 1 of 4 only. 542pp + index; laid paper; text clean with minor foxing; chips to front ep; 1" missing from top of title page; front cover missing; leather back strip + back cover .

poor. Hardcover. A collection of original works about John Howard (September 2, 1726 - January 20,1790), philanthropist and early English prison reformer, originally compiled and bound together with marbled end pages in half morocco. It is now disbound with the front cover missing. It includes MANY original steel engravings & rare portraits inserted & these original works: -Sketch of the Life of John Howard, F.R.S., Rickaby, Little London 1790 -Anecdotes of the Life and Character of John Howard, London 1790 -The True Patriot: A Sermon on the Much Lamented Death of Howard (preached at Hackney) by Samuel Palmer 1790 -Sermon Occasioned by the Decease of Howard, Esq. by Samuel Stennett 1790 -The American Universal Magazine Jan. 16, 1797 "Notes of a Conversation held with Mr. Howard May 1789" Feb. 6, 1997 "Defence of Christianity - No. II" Mar 6, 1797 "Account of Some of the Singularities of the Late Mr. Howard" by Mr. Pratt -Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine… Read More

poor. Hardcover. circa 1798. only 1/2 of Morse's American Gazetteer missing 1st half of book-- starts at 'NOR'; unpaginated; laid paper; foxing throughout; 2 fold-out maps engraved by S. Hill include 1. Southern parts of the United States of America 2. West Indies, both have ragged edges; covers detached .

Boston: Samuel H. Parker. 1836. fair. Hardcover. Parker Edition. Fourth Series, 2 Volumes in 1 - Vol 53 244pp / Vol. 54 251pp; scattered light foxing, heavier on end pp; 7.25" tall heavy wear to leather covers; front cover dis-bound, back cover hanging on .