Item 2067Album of Views of the Missions of California 24 postcards
Souvenir Publishing Company. soft cover. 5-7/8" x 3-1/2" Faint diagonal crease on front cover otherwise fine. Item #2067
Christian Literature
Item 1611Bound American Tract Society Tracts.
American Tract Society. Thick small 12mo. 7-1/16" x 4-9/16" x 2-5/8" thick. Original leather bound boards and leather spine with matching corner tips. Leather seriously worn and rubbed away in several places. Text block affected by waterstains, foxing and toning. Some underlining. Binding is still tight. Overall condition is poor but this book is still readable and worth perusing. Name in ink on free front endpaper.
Beginning with No. 65 and ending with No. 503 this book includes 105 tracts. Just after the back endpaper is inserted a neatly hand written index of the titles each one. I was unable to find any dates but the printing style and handwritten index gives me the feeling that it was probably published in the second quarter of the 19th century. Item #1611
Item 1250The Complete Family Bible, Containing the Sacred Text of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha at Large illustrated with Notes and Annotations Selected from the Writings of Poole, Henry, Brown, Clarke, Wesley and other Eminent Divines.
Manchester: J. Cleve, n.d. (ca. 1850s). Embellished with Numerous Superb Engravings. Tall folio. 17-3/4" x 11-1/4" x 3-3/4" thick. Suede covered boards. Leather spine label stamped in gold. Glossy marbled endpapers. Minor scattered foxing throughout. Overall pages are clean and bright. Some wear to cover extremities. Binding is tight. Item #1250
Item 2239The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, 14 volumes
Boston: Hinkley, n.d. circa 1904. First edition. 8vo. 9-78" x 6-1/4". Oak boards with decorative beveled edges. Arts and crafts style pigskin leather spines with raised bands. All very good - volume 12 has a darkened spine.
Over 100 beautiful illustrations - many in color, the 14 bindings are made of wood and leather. Item #2239
Item 1216The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated out of the Original Greek, and With the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
London: John Baskett, 1734. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/4". Unpaginated. Brown calf binding. Both front and back covers ornately decorated with gold tooling. Lovely gold decorated spine with gold tooled raised bands and six tooled panels. Gold tooled dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gold. Very good condition.
Fore-edge painting of city scene.
Engraved bookplate with crest and name of Arthur Holdsworth, Esq. of Dartmouth, Devon.
Another small black leather book plate engraved in gold with a crest and name of Hugo J. Lion. Item #1216
Item 1201Ordinaire de la Sainte Messe
Paris: Durand, 1771. Engraved frontispiece of Jesus crucifiction. Dark green leather covered boards. Front and back covers identical with charming gold tooled floral design. Spine with raised bands and gold tooled panels. Marbled end papers. Following title page are 8 unnumbered pp. with "Table de fetes Mobiles" and what I think is a calendar of saints, not completely sure. Following the calendar are 70 numbered pages. Tight and clean. Some rubbing. 3/4" split at top of back joint. Overall a very nice copy.
Avec
Les Prieres du Matin
Les Litanies du Nom de Jesus
Les Prieres du Soir
Les Litanies de la Sainte Vierge
Les Vêpres du Dimanche
Les Complies
Les Pseaumes de la Pénitence
Les Litanies des Saintes
Et autres Prieres de Dévotion. Item #1201
Item 1739The Psalms in Metre
Oxford University Press, 1979. Hard cover. fine. Item #1739
Item 1377Psalterium Romanum Dispositum per Hebdomadam, Ad norman Breviarii ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restituti, S. PII V. Pontificis Maximi Jussu Editi, Clementis VIII, Ac Urbani VIII. Auctoritate Recogniti;
Venetiis: Ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1776. Editio Omnium Recentissima ac Emendatissima. Folio 19-1/4" x 13-5/8". 338 pp. Mottled calf covered boards. Five raised bands. One leaf missing, pp. 145-146.One short interior tear on one page. A few scratches on back board. Stain on fore-edge of leather on front board. Endpapers a little wrinkled. Some finger smudges along fore-edge of title page. Overall beautiful clean, white pages. Binding is tight.
Cum omnibus, quae pro Psalmis, Hymnis, Antiphonis, tam beatae Mariad Virginis, quàm Defunctorum, ac Responsoriis, ceterifque in Diurno Officio modulandis ne cessaria sunt, praecipua cura emendatum & excissum. Item #1377
Item 2080The Roman Missal (1962) Daily Missal and Liturgical Manual
London: Baronius Press, 2004. 6-5/16" x 3-15/16". Bound in black leather, stitched around the edges. Spine stamped in gold. 2142 pp. plus 30 supplemental pp. and index. All pages gilded. Patterned color printed endpapers. A lovely, tight and clean copy. Only flaw is a small stain on the fore-edge of pages.
With Vespers for Sundays and Feasts from the Edito Typica of The Roman Missal and Breviary, 1962
With Supplements Containing the Additional Masses for England and Wales, Scotland and the United States. ISBN: 0954563123 Item #2080
Item 1954The Origins of the New Testament
Macmillan, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine / fine. Item #1954
Item 1262Living and Working with the Gods, Studies of Evidence for Private Religion and its Material Environment in the City of Ostia (100-500AD)
Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6-1/2". Grey cloth covered boards. 311 pp. including index. Plus 62 pp. of black and white photo illustrations numbering 100 figures in all. Fine condition, almost as new.
Volume XII in the series, Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology, editors: F.J.A.M. Meijer and H.W. Pleket. ISBN: 9050630561 Item #1262
Item 904Religio Medici together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals
Birmingham, AL: Classics of Medicine Library, (1981). Privately Printed for the Members of The Classics of Medicine Library. Originally printed in London by William Pickering in 1845. Marbled endpapers. 12 mo. 6-15/16" x 4-1/2". Full dark blue leather elaborately stamped in gold. All edges gilt. Fine condition. Item #904
Item 1013The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which is To Come
White, Stokes & Allen: New York, 1886. Small 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Brown cloth covered boards, embossed and stamped in gold and black. Beveled edges. Attractive decorative spine. All edges gilt. 410 pp. A clean, tight copy with a few tiny spots on back free endpaper. Previous owner's name in ink on free front endpaper. Extremities show a touch of fraying. A few spots on back cover. ( see photo). Item #1013
Item 989No Foot of Land: Folklore of American Methodist Itinerants
Metuchen, N. J. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1975. The ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Monograph Series, No. 6. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-7/8". Green cloth stamped in white. 354 pp.
"Theologians operating in isolation always risk religious sterility, confusing truth with its propositional forms. And, worse than lifelessnes, they risk more error than they need to, because (although ultimate truth is admittedly beyond the capacity of any mortal) the approximation of truth is more nearly possible when it is seen in the reflected light of folklore, than when it is pursued in the limits of pure reason alone. God is both what he is and what men understand him to be. The choice between humanism and revelation is not only artificial, it is unnecessary as well. The history of missions cannot be recorded in statistics, or even as the story of the power of logical conclusions. Rather it is the account of how people - nourished in one tradition - discover within another a resonance sympathetic to the deepest needs of their consciousness, with the result that they are affected by, and affect a new faith. The force of evidence of such double metamorphosis to be found in the study of folklore is abundant.
Professor Byrne has created a careful and lively study in folklore and a contribution to understanding of religion in general. He also affords us three additional insights: he has gathered fugitive materials relating to the insignificant chapters in social history and arranged them so that they both explain and describe distinctive elements in the American story. He has written of a peculiar dimension of American Methodism in such a way as to make possible not simply the recognition of the difference between the native and British phenomenon, but a partial understanding of why and how the difference came into existence. ISBN: 081080798x Item #989
Item 896The Colonial Parson of New England, A Picture
New York: Baker and Taylor Company, (1896). 12 mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 226 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Top edge gilt. Very good to fine.
Table of Contents: Parsons and Parsons; Boyhood and Ordination; The Agricultural parson; The Political Parson; The Literary Parson; The Parson as a Scholar; The Parson as a Preacher; The Parson as a Man; The Parson as an Ancestor; The Composite Parson. Item #896
Item 893The Circuit Rider, A Tale for the Heroic Age
Illustrated with charming wood engravings. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Tan cloth covered boards. 332 pp. Name in ink on free front endpaper. Bottom corner tips have a tiny touch of rubbing. Otherwise book is in fine condition.
"The Circuit Rider" originally appeared as a serial in The Christian Union. . . . .Whatever is incredible in this story is true. The tale I have to tell will seem strange to those who know little of the social life of the West at the beginning of this century. These sharp contrasts of corn-shuckings and camp-meetings, of wild revels followed by wild revivals' these contacts of highwayman and preacher; this mélange of picturesque simplicity, grotesque humor and savage ferocity, of abandoned wickedness and austere piety, can hardly seem real to those who know the country now. But the books of biography and reminiscence which preserve the memory of that time more than justify what is marvelous in these pages. Item #893
Item 1148Spiritualism and the Catholic Church, being a Discussion by Will J. Erwood and Rev. F. J. Flannagan
Will J. Erwood, (1917). Small 8vo. 7-7/16" x 5-3/8". Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Blind stamped rules. 187 pp. A little light cover soil. Names in pencil on free front endpaper. Item #1148
Item 1146From the Pulpit to the Poor-House and Other Romances of the Methodist Itinerancy
New York and Cincinnati: Hunt & Eaton; Cranston & Curtis, 1892. First edition. Small 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-7/16". 204 pp. Brown cloth covered boards with blind stamped rules and title stamped in gold. Some wear at corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Item #1146
Item 935The Sun in the Church, Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, (1999). Second Printing. 4to. 10" x 7". Cream paper covered boards. Red cloth spine. 366 pp. including index. Fine. / Fine dust jacket.
THrough much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system. Within sight of the altar, they subverted Church doctrine about mankind's place in the universe. Measurements made in the oldest cathedral observatory, San Petronio in Bologna, in the heart of the Papal States, supported Kepler's revolutionary discovery that neither the sun's orbit, nor the earth's can be a circle, and thus indirectly favored ideas condemned at the trial of Galileo. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church explains the unlikely accomplishments of the Church sponsored observers. Item #935
Item 2069Christmas Eve
New York: Harper & Row, (1962) no date on title page. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. No statement of edition on copyright page. Price on jacket flap is $2.95. Oblong small 4to. 10-1/8" x 7-3/16". Pictorial paper covered boards. Fine book / Very good dust jacket with one barely visible 1" closed tear and on 1/8" closed tear.
In this beautiful and reverent retelling of the part the animals played on the eve that Christ was born, the exquisite blending of pictures and text evokes the spirit of Christmas with poignant simplicity. Item #2069
Item 1913Lectures to Young Men
Hartford: Cook and Co., 1832. Sixth Edition. Hard cover. fine. Item #1913
Item 1623Gregorian Chant, A Textbook for Seminaries, Novitiates and Secondary Schools
Toledo, Ohio: Gregorian Istitute of America, Jan 27, 1945. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-15/16". Blue cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 148 pp. including index. Name on free front endpaper. A few stains on the front cover show up worse in the scan than they really are. Overall condition is very good, tight and clean.
"Throughout the textbook we have tried as far as possible to avoid the use of technical language. For example, the term "fall group" is used instead of "thesis" and "rise group" instead of "arsis." Even in treating the nature of a Latin word the term "rise" is sometimes adopted for the accented syllable and "fall" for the grave syllable of a word. The translations of the Greek and Latin names for the neumes are supplied as a teaching aid since the picture conjured up by the English word is more graphic than the foreign term, especially in the teaching of younger students." Item #1623
Item 947The Pennsylvania Dutch
New York: Macmillan Co., 1950. Illustrated with 33 charming pen-and-ink drawings by the author. Stated First Printing. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-3/4". Blue cloth covered boards with red and cream colored hex symbol printed on front cover. Spine stamped in red and cream. 451 pp. including extensive bibliography. Map endpapers. Title page is a little foxed. Corner tips and extremities show just a touch of rubbing. Overall a tight, clean, very good copy.
This book is the story of a people, of their past and of their present, and of the qualities that set them off from their neighbors. To a surprisingly complete degree the Pennsylvania Dutch are unlike their fellow Americans. In the melting pot of America they retained their individuality. Mr. Klees shines a light on the the spirit of Amish-Mennonite art - decorations, illuminated writing, barn signs, pottery, the architecture of churches, houses and barns. Delightful pages describe recreations and holidays. Mr. Klees is eloquent, too, on the subject of food, and even includes a generous number of recipes for tasty dishes. His epilogue, "A Pennsylvania Dutch Calendar," is a poetic, carefully observed account of the seasons. Himself a Pennsylvania Dutchman, Mr. Klees writes about them with great enthusiasm and affection and is a master of a clear, straight-forward style, touched with a lively sense of humor. Item #947
Item 1256The Fisherman's Allegories
Dayton, OH: Reformed Publishing Co., 1887. Frontispiece portrait of author and some engraved illustrations. First edition. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold and black. 305 pp. Heavy rubbing to extremities. Cover shows heavy wear and staining. A few bent corners. Binding is tight. Some scattered light foxing. Overall interior is very good.
Included is an original temperance poem and many stories of the suffering caused by intoxication and many conversions. Item #1256
Item 2139Freemasonry and Catholism
The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1947. Sixth Edition. Green Cloth. fine. Item #2139