London: printed for J. Cooke, 1771. First Edition. Engraved print, framed behind glass. Print size: 215 x 133 mm, slightly cropped affecting several letters. Frame size: 342 x 263 mm. Slight foxing, some browning along edges, upper left corner slightly curled in. A striking 18th century engraving of a great..... More
![SCOTTISH BINDINGS]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and The New Newly Translated out...](/pictures/thumb/3087.jpg?v=1600272830)
Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1767. Two vols. (6.75 x 4.25"). Contemporary Scottish black morocco, spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering pieces in the second, others with gilt saltire with small flowers, covers framed with distinctive interlocking tool impressed individually. Red and black PRINTED book labels of Elisabeth Hall (dated 1769)..... More
London: Robert Barker, 1611. First Edition. Folio. 7 leaves: Z3, Z5, Z6, Aa1, Aa2, Aa3, Aa4. Contents: 3 John 1:7-14, Epistles of Jude (complete book); Revelations Chapter 2:21 through Chapter 18:12. Margins frayed, soiling, old repairs, portions of texts defective (SEE IMAGES). With faults, and priced accordingly. Highly interesting, nearly..... More
Berlin: In der Mylissischen Buchhandling, 1823. Small 8vo, contemporary black velveteen stamped in gilt, tooled red leather onlay to each board with a green heart device applied to each, [vi], 378 pages, decorated paste-downs, a.e.g., gauffered edges. Contemporary decorated paste-paper decorated two-piece slipcase. Final gathering trimmed a little close, with..... More
Bath: S. Hazard for T. Mills, 1775. 8vo. xvii, [3], 445, [1] pp. Modern full calf, red morocco spine label. Displeasing glue residue in gutter margin of first blank and title-page, both of which are a little browned, age-toning throughout (not objectionable); top edge of textblock with stain near the..... More
Madrid: 1790. Peter Marin. Small 4to. 224 pp. Bound in contemporary horsehide (?) -- on covers a flower tool has been impressed in gold to form a cross, in the outer edges a rope-work roll, at the corners the same flower tool, four raised bands on spine, in the compartments..... More
London: Printed by assignment from the executors of E. Wicksteed for W. Bent, 1785. Hardcover. 12mo, pp. [6], ix, [1], 156; the first leaf consisting of an approbation on the recto and an engraved frontispiece on the verso; contemporary and probably original black goatskin with decorative gilt border and similar..... More
![POST-INCUNABLE]. Iacobi Fabri Stapulensis De Maria Magdalena, et triduo Christi, disceptatio,...](/pictures/thumb/1276.jpg?v=1553284499)
Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm Badensis, 1518. Hardcover. Small 4to. 30 ff. Collation: aa - ff4, gg6, COMPLETE. Woodcut title page with columns and cherubs. Bound in 19th-century pale glazed boards, expertly rebacked. MARY MAGDALEN AND THE "QUARREL OF THE MAGDALENS." -- Lefevre d'Etables' "De Maria Magdalena et triduo Christi disceptatio" (1517)..... More
![THEOLOGY, ENGLAND - 1616]. Miscellaneorum theologicorum, quibus non modo scripturae divinae, sed...](/pictures/thumb/585.jpg?v=1600272725)
Oxford: Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1616. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Collation: [par.]4 2[par.]4 A-3K4 3L*4 3L-4L4 4M2 (lacking final blank leaf 4M2). Without a binder's blank at the front, and at the back a stub bearing traces of MS annotations; this was excised at the same time as the bespoke..... More
London: Printed by Richard Hett, for the Company of Stationers, 1776. Hardcover. 8vo. (203 x 123 mm). 236, [4] pp. Collation: A-P8, COMPLETE. Contemporary Liverpool binding of full red morocco elaborately gilt; wide gilt border of urns and flowers surrounding a black inlay gilt with the name of the first..... More
![IRELAND TROUBLES]. [MANUSCRIPTS]. Archive of Irish manuscript sermon material, ca. 1930s-1970s,...](/pictures/thumb/2870.jpg?v=1591151352)
1930s-1970s. Archive of manuscript sermon material from 1930s-1970s of an influential Northern Ireland Presbyterian pastor, Rev. James A. McFarland (1904-1987), including over 150 sketches, outlines, and complete manuscripts. Meticulously organized chronologically in folders, and preserved in a large Hollinger box. MANUSCRIPT SERMONS WRITTEN DURING THE IRISH TROUBLES. James A. McFarland..... More
![REFORMATION]. Johannes Zwick und die Reformation in Konstanz / Quellen und Forschungen zur...](/pictures/thumb/3158.jpg?v=1595430184)
Gutersloh, Germany: Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. 308 pp. pp. Original cloth (a trifle dusty). NOT ex-library! The definitive, critical biography of Johannes Zwick (ca. 1496-1542) who with his brother Konrad, and Ambrosius and Thomas Blarer, implemented the Reformation in Constance and "deputized" other brothers in other..... More
![SCOTLAND, 1690]. Presbyterian inquisition as it was lately practised against the professors of...](/pictures/thumb/561.jpg?v=1553284716)
London: Printed for J. Hindmarsh, 1691. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto: [2], 106 pp. Bound in modern half calf antique over marbled boards, old wrappers bound in at end (upper wrapper with early booksellers description and evidence of previous library shelf-marks). Some dust soiling. ¶ DAVID LAING'S COPY. Laing was..... More
![EARLY ENGLISH CATECHISM]. [In Greek]: Christianismou stoicheiosis. [In Latin]: Christianae...](/pictures/thumb/3219.jpg?v=1600644911)
London: John Day, 1578. 8vo. Collation: A-Q8 (lacking two leaves: Q7-8 at end containing final portion of Latin text, Errata and John Day's coat of arms). Text in Greek and Latin on facing pages. Title-page surrounded with typographical ornaments, 10-line initial "H" on A2r, elaborate typographical ornament on A5 (repeated on..... More
London: Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1668. First Edition. Folio in 4's. [2], A2, a-Zzz, Aaaa-Iiii, [2] = 318 ff., 2 vols. Contemporary English calf "trade binding," on covers two vertical double fillets, very worn and partially defective, with many chips and tears, on upper cover a repair to portion..... More
![American Publisher's Stamped Leather Bindings]. The Cottage Bible and Family Expositor. Rev....](/pictures/thumb/3021.jpg?v=1583177441)
Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1848. 2 vols. Original publisher's black leather bindings, stamped in gold, all edges gilt, endpapers plain. A few very minor, unobtrusive repairs. Occasionally heavy foxing throughout, as commonly. The elaborate center- and cornerpieces on the present binding must be seen to be fully appreciated. Whereas..... More
![Provincial American Dust Jacket]. The Cottage Bible and Family Expositor...with practical...](/pictures/thumb/2999.jpg?v=1582353219)
Hartford: D.F. Robinson and H.F. Sumner; stereotyped by James Connor and William R. Cooke, 1834. 2 vols. Vol 1: [2], 3-736, [2] = 738 pp., with frontispiece and 7 plates. Vol 2: [2], 737-995, [9], 1003-1440, [3] = 711 pp., with engraved frontispiece and 5 plates. Bound in speckled calf..... More
London: Printed by R. Young for John Bartlet, at the signe of the gilt Cup in Cheape-side, 1629. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 165 pp. including full-page woodcut plate bound as frontispiece (intended to be placed between pp. 50/51). COLLATION: A-Y4, without the final blank leaf, otherwise COMPLETE. Provenance: blindstamps..... More
![RELIGIONS OF THE OLD AND NEW WORLD]. Les Religions du Monde, ou demonstration de toutes les...](/pictures/thumb/3040.jpg?v=1600997095)
Amsterdam: Jean Schipper, 1666. First Edition in French. 4to. [14], 400 = 414 pp., COMPLETE. With an engraved additional title and 15 half-page engraved illustrations as section divisions, occasional woodcut ornaments and floriated initials. Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, shaken, hinges split, corners bent and bumped, faded MS title on spine..... More
Paris and Mecca: 1783-1799. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Together 6 volumes (collations below). Contemporary French red morocco, smooth spines lettered direct, all edges gilt (some wear to binding extremities, spines a little darkened). ¶ These volumes include all of Savary's accounts of his traveld to Egypt and Greece, plus his very..... More
![The Whole Booke of David's Psalmes [Book of Psalms]. Scottish Binding](/pictures/thumb/2780.JPG?v=1567633000)
London: Printed by T[homas] C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1635. 16mo. Collation: A-2E8, COMPLETE. 439, [9] pp. Final two gatherings waterstained, fols. E3 and R5 partially torn away with loss of some shoulder notes. Bound in contemporary British (Scottish?) brown calf, lacking first binder's blank, worn and shaken but..... More
![SCOTLAND, 1703]. Some thoughts on the present state of affairs. Humbly offered to the high court...](/pictures/thumb/564.jpg?v=1553284717)
[Edinburgh]: 1703. First Edition. Softcover. Together two volumes, small quarto. 12 pp., COMPLETE. Stitched in old blue paper wrappers at a recent date. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) author attributions in ink on title-pages, faint blind-stamps on first and final leaves of both pamphlets. BOTH editions of Sinclair's pamphlet recommending Scottish parliamentary..... More
![BINDINGS - EMBROIDERED / JEWISH BOOKBINDER]. Allgemeines Evangelisches Gesangbuch für das...](/pictures/thumb/3199.jpg?v=1600272834)
Darmstadt: Im Verlag der Großherzoglichen Invalide und Soldaten-Waisen-Unstalt / Gedruckt vei L.C. Wittich, 1831. 8vo. (155 x 93 mm). viii, 532, [9] pp. Contemporary green morocco by Simon Stiebel of Marburg (ticket on recto of free endpaper), both covers inset with petit-point embroidery: a flower at center enclosed by a...... More
London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, J. Buckland, T. Longman, T. Field, E. and C. Dilly, and W. Davenhill, 1770. Hardcover. 12mo. viii + 317 + [23] pp. (final index and tables), with 8 plates of engraved music ("Tunes to the Tenor Parts"), and with the initial licence leaf..... More
