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
![WOMEN, IMPURITY AND SIN OF CHILDBIRTH]. [KING JAMES BIBLE, 1611]. Single leaf from the First...](/pictures/thumb/3606.jpg?v=1637016836)
London: Robert Barker, 1611. First Edition. Folio. Single leaf (K6r-K6v). Contents: 11 Levitius 43 - 13 Leviticus 34. There is non-sequential MS numbering in margins in an early hand (10, 11, 12, 16, 17) but the text is quite correct. Margins frayed, upper corner torn away affecting two letters of..... More
![SCOTTISH (?) BINDING 1635]. The Whole Booke of David's Psalmes [Book of Psalms]. Psalms. 1635 Bible](/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
![RUSSIAN MANUSCRIPT ON BLUE PAPER]. Psalter + Troparia + Prayers. Russian - Psalms Bible](/pictures/thumb/3511.jpg?v=1622240823)
Russia: 1820-1830 (ca.). Small 4to (textblock: 210 x 165 mm. Binding: 215 x 175 x 80 mm). Bound in contemporary Russian calf (?) over wooden boards, catch on upper cover, portion of leather strap preserved, clasp lacking. Binding and text very worn (see the 53 images on our website) and..... 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
![WOMAN OWNER]. The Way to Christ Discovered and Described. Jacob BOEHME](/pictures/thumb/3220.jpg?v=1600997100)
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
![Early Brighton (?) Binding]. The new week's preparation for a worthy receiving of the Lord's...](/pictures/thumb/377.jpg?v=1553284707)
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
London: Cassell, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xiv, 342 + vii, 342 [2] pp. With frontispieces in both volumes + 14 full-page plates. Original blue cloth, original dust-jackets. Text and jackets inexplicably FOXED (see images), but the paper is strong and free of all markings / stamps; jackets unchipped..... More
![CONTEMPORARY OXFORD (?) BINDING - 1616]. Miscellaneorum theologicorum, quibus non modo scripturae...](/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
![PALESTINIAN HERBARIUM / ALBUM COMPOSED OF PRESSED FLOWERS]. Wild Flowers from Palestine. Flowers...](/pictures/thumb/3516.jpg?v=1622333227)
Lowell, Mass. [The Author], n.d. (ca. 1910). Oblong 8vo. (125 x 170 mm). 13 pp. text, with 17 pasted-on pressed flowers, each with descriptive text opposite. Original publisher's green and white cloth (1/3 cream cloth, 2/3 green cloth with title gilt on front cover), some abraisons / discoloration to binding..... More
![UNKNOWN WISCONSIN AUTHOR, 1861]. De Matrimonio Tractatus Quinque, Usui Venerabilis Cleri...](/pictures/thumb/3615.jpg?v=1637016953)
Munich: E. Stahl, 1861. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 424 pp. Original quarter sheep (leather suffed but the binding is perfectly sound; extremities worn). Contemporary inscription on title-page: "H.D. Tuncker, Ep. Altonensis" (i.e. Altona, outside Hamburg). NOT ex-library! SCARCE TREATISE ON MARRIAGE, "ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN CLERGYMEN," WRITTEN BY..... 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
![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
![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. GORGEOUS COPY. The elaborate center- and cornerpieces on the present binding must be seen to be fully..... 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
![QUAKERIANA]. The works of the long-mournful and sorely-distressed Isaac Penington, whom the Lord...](/pictures/thumb/3043.jpg?v=1637016621)
London: Benjamin Clark, 1681. First Edition. Folio. Two parts in one volume: [48], 92, 91-154, 191-470; 496 pp. (COMPLETE despite pagination skips). Part 1 with additional title dated 1680 following the Table. Part 2 also has separate title page with the date 1680. Bound in 20th-century quarter-calf over marbled boards..... More
![POST-INCUNABLE 1513, FORMERLY CHAINED MEDIEVAL BINDING]. Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum. Petrus...](/pictures/thumb/3608.jpg?v=1637016860)
Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1513. Folio (303 x 200 mm). [4], 253 ff., rubricated in red and blue throughout. Title-page woodcut border composed of four blocks by Hans Baldung (Grien), and one full-page woodcut by Urs Graf (see below). Collation: a4, b6-z6, A-T6, U4, X4 (final blank leaf X4 excised; new..... More
![KORAN / MOHAMMED / EGYPT / GREECE]. Lettres sur l'EGYPTE (3 vols. printed on Fine Paper) +...](/pictures/thumb/931.jpg?v=1553284745)
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
![COLONIAL BINDING - CONNECTICUT, 1760]. A Confession of Faith Owned and Consented to by the Elders...](/pictures/thumb/3262.jpg?v=1604930525)
New-London [CT]: Printed by Timothy Green, 1760. 16mo. [2], 118 pp. Collation: A-P4. With the Articles for the Administration of Church Discipline bound in with its own title page and the Timothy Green 1760 imprint, but the pagination and signatures continuous. Bound in contemporary American calf over thin wooden "scaleboard."..... 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
![FEBRONIANISM]. Anti-Febbronio osia apologia polemico-storica del primato del Papa. Francesco...](/pictures/thumb/3044.jpg?v=1637016631)
Pesaro: Amatina, 1767. First Edition. 4to. 2 vols. Vol 1: [6], I-CXXXVI, 1-307 = 449 pp. Vol 2: [I-II], III-XVI, 1-465 = 481 pp. Nineteenth century quarter-calf with marbled paper covered boards, quite worn along hinges and binding extremities, foot of spine with covered with black marker which extended onto..... More
