The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
Washington, D.C. Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1973. Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O,C,D, Thick 8vo. 9" x 6". Perfect bound paperback. More
Christian Literature
The 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. More
Katharine Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks
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
The 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. Fore-edge painting of city scene. More
Ordinaire 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...... More
Symbolism in Liturgical Art
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
Living 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. 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
Armageddon: or the Overthrow of Romanism and Monarchy; the Existence of the United States Foretold in the Bible
Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., n.d. (1854). 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/4". Blind stamped brown cloth covered boards. 480 pp plus 12 pp. publisher's ads. Contents: The First Spiritual and Political Prophecy; Second General Prophecy; Panorama of Christianity and of the World; Israel Restored Identical with the United States; Ezekiel's Symbolic Prophecies..... More
The Lord's Prayer in the Principal Languages, Dialects and Versions of the World Printed in Type and Vernaculars of the Different Nations
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
Religio 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. More
When Iron Gates Yield
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
The 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. More
No Foot of Land: Folklore of American Methodist Itinerants
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
The 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. Table of Contents: Parsons and Parsons; Boyhood and Ordination; The Agricultural parson; The Political Parson; The Literary Parson; The Parson as..... More
Judaizing Teachers, Ancient and Modern: or Sacramental Error Refuted by the Teachings of Scripture, and the Authorities of the Episcopal Church
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
Christianity and Symbolism
St. James Place, London: Collins, 1955. 8vo. Black paper covered boards made to look like cloth. 320 pp. More
Liber Usualis, with Introduction and Rubrics in English
Tournai and New York: Society of St. John the Evangelist, DESCLÉE & Cie. 15th Maii 1956. No.801. Black cloth covered boards.1880 pp. plus 12 pp. Appendix II , 68 pp. Psalms for the Holy Week. 100 pp. Alphabetical index tables plus more supplemental material. More
The 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. "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
Spiritualism 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. More
Two Sticks: or The Lost Tribes of Israel Discovered. The Jew and the Israelite Not the Same.
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
Memorials of Prison Life
Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, (1850). 8vo. 7-7/16"x 4-7/8". Blind stamped brick colored cloth covered boards. 354 pp. Frontispiece engraving of the Ohio Penetentiary and several other plates presenting prison life. The following work, kind reader, was not premeditated, when I accepted the appointment of chaplain to the penitentiary of Ohio;..... More
From 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. More
The Sacred Plains
Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim & Co., 1856. Illustrated with seven lithographs. First Edition. Small 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". 239 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Brown cloth covered boards blind stamped and stamped in gold. More
The 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. 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..... More
The Song of Tekakwitha, Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks
New York: Fordham University Press, Nov. 6, 1941. Color illustrated by Le Roy H. Appleton. Stated First Editon. Tall 8vo. 10" x 6-1/2". Decorated blue printed endpapers. The Song of Tekakwitha is a poem, narrative of the life of Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha, some 3680 lines, written in the celebrated Kalevala..... More