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. 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..... More
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. More
Göz et Klauber, no date. 16 mo. 4" x 6".Pebbled cloth covered boards with gold rules, gold crown and blind stamped border decoration. Unpaginated. 129 steel engravings. Text in Latin. I can't quite identify the origin of this fascinating little volume. There is no date on any of the engravings..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, (1940). Being the Original Documents first published at the Vatican Polyglot Press now done into English and presented for the Edification of the Faithful. First edition. 4to. 10-3/4" x 7-7/8".Brick colored cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Hand drawn decorative map endpapers. 468 pp including..... More
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. Fore-edge painting of city scene. More
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...... More
Oxford University Press, 1979. Hard cover. More
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. 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 &..... More
Macmillan, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1959). First edition. 8vo. Red cloth stamped in gold. 120 pp. This practical handbook illustrates and explains the 134 symbols most commonly employed in Christian religious art and liturgical practice. Each drawing is based on a study of the many uses in art of the..... More
Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1994. 9050630561. 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. Volume XII in the series, Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology, editors: F.J.A.M. Meijer and H.W...... More
Chicago: 1884. First Edition. 8vo. 7-13/16" x 5-1/2". Blue cloth covered boards ornately stamped in black and gold. 200 pp. Back board blind stamped. More
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. More
Chicago: Moody Press, n.d. (ca. 1950s). The dauntless story of the British Missionary in Tibet, captive in Chinese Communist hands for three years. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Blue cloth covered boards stamped in red. 254 pp. "In this well written . . . well-mapped . . . book a young..... More
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. More
Philadelphia: Bradley, Garretson & Co., 1873. Illustrated with many steel engravings including frontispiece portrait of John Bunyan and an engraved title page. 4to. 9-7/8" x 7". 2-1/8" thick. Green cloth covered embossed, beveled boards stamped in gold. 1050 pp. Tipped in is a facsimile of the will of John Bunyan..... More
Metuchen, N. J. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1975. 081080798x. 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
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. Table of Contents: Parsons and Parsons; Boyhood and Ordination; The Agricultural parson; The Political Parson; The Literary Parson; The Parson as..... More
Chicago: Chas. Scott and Company, 1858. 12 mo. 7-1/2" x 5-7/8". Olive cloth covered boards with blind stamped decorative corner scrolls. 156 pp. More
The Union Library Association, 1935. Gustave Dore. First Edition. Hard Cover. More
St. James Place, London: Collins, 1955. 8vo. Black paper covered boards made to look like cloth. 320 pp. More
Illustrated with charming wood engravings. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Tan cloth covered boards. 332 pp. "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..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1981). Halftone illustrations. 0295957166. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-15/16". Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 366 pp. including index. "Emmerson first establishes the apocalyptic out look, explains how Antichrist (mentioned only briefly in scripture) became the central figure of medieval apocalyptic, and studies the development..... More
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. More
Mount Morris, Ill: The Brethren's Publishing Company, 1887. First Edition. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gold stamped cover. 265 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. More