RELIGION RELIGION 
Compiled by The Ladies
Waite, Cora, ed. Cook book of tested recipes compiled by
the ladies of the Mission Band of Emmanuel Church Little Falls, N.Y. Little Falls, NY: Herkimer County News, [ca. 1890]. 8vo. 47, [1] pp. 
• Stapled in original printed paper wrappers; wrappers lightly stained, and chipped over edges and spine. Pages age-toned but generally clean, a few with short edge tears. (13751)
FIRST English Translation of
the Apostolic FathersWake, William, ed. & trans. The genuine epistles of the Apostolical Fathers S. Barnabas, S. Clement, S. Ignatius, S. Polycarp. The shepherd of Hermas, and the martyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp, written by those who were present at their sufferings. London: Ric. Sare, 1693. 8vo (18 cm, 7"). [6], 196, [6], 9–168, [173]–547, [9 (index)] pp. 
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Wing (rev.) G523A; ESTC R10042; Allibone 2534. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, rebacked some time ago with speckled calf preserving original gilt-stamped leather spine label and rebacking extending into lower portion of front cover; corners rubbed, spine label cracked. Free endpapers lacking. Front pastedown with inked presentation inscription to a seminary and two small adhesions from a now-absent bookplate; title-page with early inked owner's name in upper margin. Pagination skips 169 through 172, with text and signature collation uninterrupted. Very minor small area of waterstaining to lower inner margins of about half of the volume, pages otherwise clean. (20831)
The History of Independency — Anarchia AnglicanaWalker, Clement. Relations and observations, historicall and politick, upon the Parliament, begun Anno Dom. 1640 ... together with an appendix, touching the proceedings of the Independent faction in Scotland. [London?], 1648. 4to (18.3 cm, 7.25"). A–T4t2V–Z4Aa2; [12], 174 pp. [with] An appendix to the History of Independency ... London, 1648. 4to. a–c4(-c4); [2], 20 pp. [with] Anarchia Anglicana: Or, the history of Independency. The second part. [London], 1649. 4to. A–Z4Aa–Kk4; [8], 256 pp.; 1 double-page plt. [with] The high court of justice; or Cromwells new slaughter house in England ... [London], 1651. 4to. A–I4; 71, [1 (blank)] pp. [with] M., T. The history of Independency. The fourth and last part. London: H. Brome & H. Marsh, 1660. 4to. A–R4; [8], 124 pp.
Click any image where the hand appears on This variant reads “II. Bookes”on line 7 of the title-page; R4 is cancelled and not present here, as is the case in most copies. The second portion has a separate title-page printed in red and black, giving Anarchia Anglicana: Or, the History of Independency as the title and the pseudonymous Theodorus Verax as the author.
Relations: ESTC R205117; Wing (rev.) W334A. Appendix: ESTC R233193; Wing (rev.) W321A. Anarchia: ESTC R27579; Wing (rev.) W317. High Court: ESTC R207365;Wing (rev.) W325. History, fourth part: ESTC R18043; Wing (rev.) M81B. Fourth part: Issued as part of Wing W324, “and possibly separately” as well according to ESTC. Contemporary calf, covers framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, sometime rebacked with first leaves tipped (back) in; spine with new gilt-stamped title, sides rubbed and abraded. Front free endpaper lacking. Front pastedown with old institutional bookplate and pencilled notations, title-page with faded rubber-stamp (and with author’s name added in an early hand), back pastedown and lower edges of closed book rubber-stamped. Two title-pages with one short tear from outer edge each, not touching text; title-page verso with shadows of pencilled numerals. Lower and outer margins trimmed closely, in some cases touching catchwords, signature marks, or shouldernotes.
Puritan Ex-PatRepatriated & Re-“Involved”
Ward, Nathaniel. A word to Mr. Peters, and two words
for the Parliament and kingdom. Or, An answer to a scandalous pamphlet, entituled, A word for the Armie, and two words to the kingdom: subscribed by Hugh Peters. Wherein the authority of Parliament is infringed, the fundamentall laws of the land subverted; the famous city of London blemished; and all the godly ministers of the city scandalized. In vindication of all which, this small treatise is published, by a friend to the Parliament, city, and ministery of it. London: Pr. by Fr: Neile for Tho: Underhill, 1647. Small 4to. [1] f., 38 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Wing (rev. ed.) W792; Thomason E.413[7]; Sabin 101330; ESTC R21688. Removed from a nonce volume. Old two-digit number in upper outer corner of title-page. Sewing starting to separate. In modern wrappers. (20998)
Morgan Library — 39
Plates & Many More ImagesWard, William Hayes. Cylinders and other ancient Oriental seals in the library of J. Pierpont Morgan. New York: Privately Printed, 1909. Folio (31.3 cm, 12.3"). 129, [3] pp.; 39 plts. 
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Publisher's quarter vellum and paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; top corners bumped (one crumpled), sides with a few faint smudges, spine irregularly darkened and with indistinct remnant of old inked call number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate noting presentation from Morgan himself, and rubber-stamp; title-page and two others pressure-stamped; one preliminary leaf with inked numeral and provenance note. Back pastedown with traces of now-absent pocket, offset onto endpaper. Pages clean. Upper edges gilt. An ex-library copy, but also one offering an interesting suggestion in the provenance; an elegant production full of interest and pleasure for reader or reference-seeker. (21052)
Against! “Secret Confederations” Warfield, Charles. The kingdom and glory of the branch, and testament of the west. Baltimore: William Wooddy [sic], 1833. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). 261, [3 (blank)], 263–341, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking port.).
Click the interior images for enlargements. Scarce. Only 11 institutions, all in the U.S., report holdings via OCLC.
• Sabin 37866; American Imprints 22538. Period-style quarter tan cloth with light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Frontispiece portrait lacking. Light to moderate foxing. (23903)
Rights
Granted, Taken Away, &
Granted AgainWaterford
(Ireland). The great charter of the liberties of the city of Waterford,
with explanatory notes. To which is added a list of the mayors, bailiffs, &
sheriffs of the city of Waterford, from the year 1377, to the year 1803, inclusive.
Kilkenny: J. Reynolds, 1806 [but 1831?]. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.4"). 110, [14 (1 blank)]
pp.
over the city’s ongoing resistance to Protestantism. It
was first printed in 1752 in two editions, one in the original Latin and the
other in an English translation by Timothy Cunningham. The present printing
of the charter issued by Charles I, only the second edition in English, covers
the legalities of the rights of mayors, sheriffs, and citizens, as well as those
of trade issues including the making and selling of usquebagh. The list
of city officials extends to 1831 rather than the 1803 described by the title,
but these leaves were almost certainly added later to remainder copies, as the
paper is different. According to RLIN and OCLC, this rare item is 
held
by only one institution outside of Ireland; no holdings are
listed by NUC Pre-1956.
• NSTC C4545. Period-style calf, framed and panelled in gilt rolls,
panels with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather
label and gilt-stamped shamrock devices in compartments. Title-page mounted;
one leaf with paper flaw with absence of a few letters, one lower outer corner
torn away. Pages with edges untrimmed, last few chipped, some slightly dust-darkened;
previous sewing holes visible.
Manuscript notes extending
the roster of sheriffs added to the bottom of two pages.
Neatly
Organized &
Very
Careful
Scholarship
Waterland, Daniel. A
critical history of the Athanasian creed. Representing the opinions of antients and
moderns concerning it.... Cambridge: Pr. at the University Press for Corn. Crowfield,
1724. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). [12], 184 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • ESTC T111484. Neat library cloth, front cover with paper label; clean and showing next to no wear. Slim binder's slip bound in between title-page and dedication. Preface and parallel passages set with narrower margins than the rest of the book; in these sections, binder's trim is close, shaving a few letters. Some page corners crumpled. Light waterstaining to upper margins of first and last few leaves; title-page with early inked ownership inscription and scattered small smudges. Overall sturdy, mostly clean, and extremely readable.
Contra GibbonWatson, Richard. An apology for Christianity in a series of letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon.... New-Brunswick [N.J.]: Pr. by Abraham Blauvelt, 1796. 12mo (14.1 cm, 5.5"). x, 136 pp, lacking final blank. 
• ESTC W011652; Evans 31561; not in Felcone, New Jersey Books 1698–1800. Contemporary speckled calf; spine with red leather title-label, gilt-lettered. Joints starting, leather with some stains and abrasions and a crack in upper part of front cover; some chipping to spine label. Rear free endpaper mostly lacking; front one with “bite” out of upper outer corner. Shallow dog ears and some very shallow chipping; browning from turn-ins and some water-staining, not obscuring impression. Three inked letters (“Eas”) on front free endpaper.
VERY
Late — But,
Quite Charming
Watts, Isaac. Divine songs, attempted in easy language, for the use of children. Derby & London: John & Charles Mozley, 1858. 12mo. Frontis., 71 pp., [1] p. (lacks endpapers); illus.
• Publisher's quarter sheep with printed and illustrated paper sides. Slightly shaken; partial separation at front hinge (inside). Back hinge opening between pp. 70 and 71. Spine, edges, and corners lightly worn. Light foxing. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. (1135)
Educational
Counsel from a Popular
HymnographerWatts,
Isaac. The improvement of the mind, in two parts. Also, a discourse
on the education of youth, and remnants of time, employed in prose and verse.
Bennington [VT]: Pr. by Anthony Haswell, 1807. 12mo (17 cm, 6.75"). 382 pp., [1
(blank)] f. 
• Shaw & Shoemaker 14175; On Watts, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, LX, 670. Contemporary speckled calf, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped with a little loss of leather therefrom. Occasional spots of browning or foxing and some small dog ears. Bookplate on front pastedown.
The Dragon's Rage, The Shakers, & The Kingdom of Glory 
Wells, Seth Youngs. Millennial praises, containing a collection of gospel hymns, in four parts; adapted to the day of Christ's second appearing. Composed for the use of his people. Hancock: Pr. by Josiah Tallcott, jr., 1813. 12mo. viii, 288, [4 (adv.)] pp.
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• Shaw & Shoemaker 30511; Richmond 1416. Full original calf, plain style, rubbed overall with small chips on front cover; chip at head of spine, front joint starting. Paper browned, and some stains; a bit of blue crayon doodling in blank area of top left corner of p. 50. Early leaves with stitch holes in inner margin, not touching text; three leaves with tears, not affecting text. Ex–theological library with area of spine blacked out where call number once was; library name and five-digit number rubber-stamped on front pastedown, accession number inked and rubber-stamped at base of p. [iii]. (21139)
J. Wesley's
Eucharistic Hymns Wesley, John. Hymns on the Lord's Supper ... the ninth edition. London: J. Paramore, 1786. 12mo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 32, 129, [7 (index)] pp.
• ESTC T31293. 19th-century half morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges slightly scuffed, spine head chipped. Front free endpaper excised; back free endpaper with outer edge chipped. Title-page with institutional pressure-stamp and with small inked numeral in upper margin. All edges gilt. In fact, quite decent. (20834)
Why, Again?
(Wesleyan Methodism).
An answer to the question, Why are you a Wesleyan Methodist? London: Pub. by
John Mason, 1842. 8vo. 80 pp.
• Sewn, no wrappers. Title-page detached, torn, chipped, stained. Text dusty.
(Wesleyan Methodism). Vevers,
William. An appeal to the Wesleyan societies, on the attempt now made to subvert
their constitution. London: Sold for the Author, by John Mason, 1834. 8vo. 42
pp.
• Disbound from a nonce volume; dusty, age-toning, six-digit number stamped on title-page. Sewing perished.
The Last Word of theBible on EverythingWest, Nathaniel. The complete analysis of the Holy Bible: Or, how to comprehend Holy Writ from its own interpretation.... New York: A.J. Johnson, 1869. 4to (27.7 cm, 11"). Frontis., xiv pp., [3] ff., pp. [xvii], xviii–lxiv; 1097, [7] pp. Fold-out map. 
Binding: Publisher’s pebbled leather, half red over brown, with gilt-stamped title on covers and ornately gilt spine. All edges gilt.
• Binding as above. Joints and edges somewhat rubbed with a little loss on corners and chipping at foot of spine. Light soiling and foxing to endpapers, and light foxing to frontispiece and following three leaves; interior otherwise clean. Pencilled ownership inscriptions on recto of front free endpaper and front flyleaf. Quite handsome and in strikingly good condition.
The
Catechism, 1857Westminster Assembly. The Assembly's shorter
catechism. New York: S.W. Benedict, 1857. 48mo (11.1 cm, 4.4"). 31 pp.
• Miniature book containing the Westminster Assembly's "shorter" catechism.
The inside of covers are included in the pagination.
• In original printed wrappers. Covers lightly stained. Overall very good. (4850)
“The Phallic Idea”Westropp, Hodder Michael; & Charles Staniland Wake. Ancient symbol worship. Influence of the phallic idea in the religions of antiquity. New York: J.W. Bouton & London: Trübner & Co., 1874. 8vo (24.7 cm, 9.75"). 98, [6 (adv.)] pp. 
The advertisement leaves are devoted specifically to books of phallic subject matter.
• NSTC 0803266; Allibone, Critical Dictionary, 1505. Publisher’s green cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped medallion, spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth rubbed at corners and pulled at spine extremities, board edges lightly discolored. Pencilled owner’s name in upper margin of title-page. Title-page and two others pressure-stamped; preface with inked annotation and stamped numeral. Pages slightly age-toned, else clean.
A Young Puritan’s
ExampleWheatley, James. An extract of the life and death of Mr. John Janeway. London: John Paramore, 1783. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 40 pp.
The title-page proclaims “This book is not to be sold, but given away.”
• ESTC N9602. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page with repairs to margins and one page crease; title-page verso rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution. First few leaves with inner margins repaired. Pages untrimmed, and gently age-toned.
Preached
in Yorkshire
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. Religion and loyalty connected; being the substance of a discourse preached in St. John's church, Leeds, on the general fast day, February 28th, 1794.... Leeds: Pr. for Thomas Wright, 1794. 4to. 20 pp.
• Disbound, but preserving original front printed wrapper; very dust-soiled; untrimmed.
Brief
Life — Brief FameWhite, Henry Kirke; & Robert Southey. The complete
works of Henry Kirke White. Of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge.
With an account of his life. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1849. 8vo. [2
(1 blank)], frontis. port., engr. half-title, [3 (2 blank)], (3)–420, 4, [2 (blank)]
pp. 
The DNB, however, has
a harsher verdict of White's poetic legacy: "White's verse shows every mark
of immaturity. In thought and expression it lacks vigour and originality. A
promise of weirdness in an early and prophetic lyric, ‘A Dance of Consumptives’
(from an unfinished ‘Eccentric Drama’), was not fulfilled in his later compositions.
The metrical dexterity which is shown in the addition to Waller's ‘Go, lovely
Rose,’ is not beyond a mediocre capacity. Such popularity as White's work has
enjoyed is to be attributed to the pathetic brevity of his career and to the
fervour of the evangelical piety which inspired the greater part of his verse
and prose." Deservedly or not, White's reputation has receded over the years
and he is now a relatively obscure poet.
This volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved by Jas. Eddy from an illustration by Pendleton [William S. Pendleton?], and an engraved portrait on the half-title. Prefaced by a sympathetic "Account of the life of Henry Kirke White" on pp. [3]–44, by Robert Southey.
• Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, both spine and covers stamped with an attractive gilt design. Cloth showing little wear at foot of spine. All page edges gilt. Faint ownership signature, dated 1849, pencilled on the front free endpaper. Yewllow slip of paper printed with eight lines of verse and pink slip with handwritten lines, pasted to front (blank) pages. Outer pages foxed; else, a few stray spots. Very good. In mylar cover. (6977)
Refuting
the“Popular
Pleas” of DissentersWhite,
John. The third and last letter to a gentleman dissenting from the Church
of England... The second edition. London: C. Davis, W. Craighton, & M. Cooper,
1745. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.6"). [2], 85, [1] pp.
• ESTC T25456. Sewn, signatures separating, now in a Mylar folder. Edges untrimmed. Title-page with small numerical stamp and slight spotting; title-page and page edges darkened; a copy dog-eared and bumped.
BEFORE His Falling-Out withthe Wesleys — Travels in Georgia Whitefield, George. A journal of a voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia. In two parts. Part I. From London to Gibraltar. Part II. From Gibraltar to Savannah. [bound with the same author's] A continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's journal from his arrival at Savannah, to his return to London. London: Pr. for James Hutton, 1739. 8vo. [2] ff., 38 pp., [1] f.London: Pr. for James Hutton, 1739. 8vo. 55, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Fifth edition of the Voyage from London and second edition of the Continuation.
• Voyage from London: Sabin 103534; Alden & Landis 739/343; ESTC T29204. Continuation: Sabin 103535 & 103538; Alden & Landis 739/340; ESTC T34033 & T34025. Recent full calf antique-style with gilt concentric panels on covers and gilt corner-devices on same; round spine with raised bands, each accented by gilt rules. 19th-century wood-engraved portrait of Whitefield added as a frontispiece. A very pleasing volume. (21775)
NOT by a “Free-Thinker” Whitehead, William Adee. The alleged atheism of the Constitution. From the Northern Monthly for November, 1867. Newark: 1867. 8vo. 15, [1 (blank)] pp.
• NSTC 2W17788. Original wrappers, front wrapper chipped at edges, back wrapper chipped at inner edge and with paper remnants affixed at top. Leaves loose (wrappers included). Long tear in fore-margin of title-leaf and small chips in inner margins of title- and final leaves. Some short marginal tears. Small chips to lower outer margins. Lengthwise fold mark. (8931)
Church of ScotlandControversyWillison,
John. A fair and impartial testimony, essayed in name of a number of ministers, elders,
and Christian people of the Church of Scotland unto the laudable principles,
wrestlings & attainments of that church...with remarks; and humble pleadings
with our mother church, to exert herself to stop defection, and promote reformation....
Pittsburgh: Zadok Cramer (pr. by Cramer & Spear), 1808. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.9").
234, [6] pp.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 16746. Contemporary treed sheep, worn and front cover with incisions; both covers with water damage to lower edges, spine with head chipped and gilt-stamped title somewhat rubbed. Front free endpaper with early inked notations and inscription dated 1819; title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. Some age-toning, occasional spots, last few leaves with waterstaining to lower outer corners—solid, and in much better condition inside than the binding description would augur.
Blind Allan — Sight Lost & Restored Wilson, John. Blind Allan, a tale, from “Lights & Shadows of Scottish Life.” [Glasgow?, Edinburgh/]: Pr. for the booksellers, n.d. [ca. 1837]. 12mo. 24 pp. 
• NSTC 2W25743. Removed from a volume. Very good condition. (8451)
“I Shall Be Very Thankful, If You Will Be So Kind as to Explain [That Which] You Say Concerns Me So Very Much”Wilson, Thomas. The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: Or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians .... London: F. & C. Rivington, 1792. 12mo (17.4 cm, 6.9"). [8], xxiv, 280 pp.
This is the stated 15th edition; the work was originally printed in 1740, under the title An Essay towards an Instruction for the Indians. The author, an Anglican divine praised by the DNB for “his ecclesiastical discipline . . . his transparent purity, his uniform sweetness of temper, and his self-denying charities,” was bishop of Sodor and Man from 1697 until his death in 1755, and an early supporter of both the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
• ESTC T85016; Field, Essay towards an Indian Bibliography, 1680 (for early eds.); Sabin 104691. On Wilson, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-tooled decorations in compartments. Lower edges of closed book and half-title (in lower margin) institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). First and last two leaves slightly foxed, pages otherwise clean.
Truth
Informs GOODNESS[Wollaston,
William]. The religion of nature delineated. London: Samuel Palmer, 1726.
4to (25.2 cm, 9.9"). 219, [13] pp.
This
has a very few, very elegant headpieces, tailpieces, and historiated initials.
• ESTC T138654. Contemporary calf double-panelled in blind, outer and innermost panels speckled; blind-stamped corner fleurons, center panel framed in blind roll; spine with raised bands and painted gilt cross decorations. Leather worn, with medium-sized abrasions, and cracked over joints; binding still holding reasonably solidly. Front pastedown showing traces of now-absent bookplate; title-page with small inked notation in upper outer corner, and first text page with personal stamp. Pages gently cockled, with a few scattered spots, but generally clean.
“ The GREAT BAUBLE of the Christian Priest, Exploded — ‘Busted’! ”Woolley, Milton. The career of Jesus Christ: Being a supplement to the author’s Science of the Bible. Streator, IL: Free Press Publishing House, 1877. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.2"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 52, [2] pp.; [60 (20 blank)] ff.
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The printed Career is followed in this little volume by an extended manuscript section containing neatly written excerpts from Wooley’s Science of the Bible or an Analysis of the Hebrew Mythology.
• Contemporary half calf over textured cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; front cover detached, leather scuffed. All page edges marbled. Upper portion of front free endpaper torn away; two front fly-leaves partially excised. Back free endpaper with pencilled owner’s name. Printed portion very slightly age-toned, with faint creasing to first section.
Husband & Wife Neo-Classicists
Worsley, Catherine Rawson; & Thomas Worsley. The Roman martyr a youthful essay in dramatic verse... with translations &.c belonging chiefly
to the same period by the editor. London & Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate, 1859. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). 111, [1] pp. 
a
beautiful, nobly born Roman maiden who dies for her Christian faith.
Also present are translations from Goethe and others by Thomas Worsley, husband
of the Roman Martyr’s author.
Provenance: Title-page upper margin with inked presentation inscription reading “Mrs. Miller with the Editor’s kind regards,” the editor being Thomas Worsley. Inked beneath the printer’s information are the words “not published,” also noted in another copy of this work. The front pastedown bears an inked inscription from Major and Mrs. F. Miller to Father Green, with a date in 1944 added in a different hand.
Binding: Signed contemporary binding: textured green cloth in imitation of morocco, front cover with decorative frame and title stamped in gilt; back pastedown with small binder’s ticket from Westleys & Co., London.
• NSTC 2W32791. Binding as above, cloth a bit rubbed over corners
and joints, with spine extremities pulled. All edges gilt. Front pastedown
and title-page with inscriptions as above. Pages slightly age-toned, else
clean, with errata slip present. Very
nice.
A Clergyman's Copy — Manuscript Additions Wren, John. The clergyman's companion in visiting the sick.
London: J. Churchill & J. Round, 1716. 8vo (17.7 cm, 7"). [16], 222 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. All early editions are scarce, including this one: OCLC and ESTC report only three U.S. institutional holdings of this elaborated third edition, counting this (now-deaccessioned) copy.
Provenance: This copy was apparently used by a clergyman; the back free endpaper has a list of hand-inked annotations beginning “March 12 1734 Baptiz'd Rich'd Son of John Bagsby of Broughton & Alice his wife” and ending with a private baptism in April of 1750. Six manuscript pages on “Churching of Women” and inditing a prayer to be used “when there appears but little hope of recovery” have been added at the back of the volume.
• ESTC T84836. Contemporary calf framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, rebacked with speckled calf, inner fleurons on front and back covers retooled, original leather rubbed. Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate, front free endpaper lacking, dedication page with early inked ownership inscription, back pastedown with inked annotations as above, back free endpaper with pencilled numerals. Pencilled bracketing; occasional inked corrections and additions in the same hand as the 18th-century inscriptions. Paper browned but strong. (23706)
Bulls Bow Down & Fiends Are Powerless Ximénez, Mateo. Compendio della vita del beato Sebastiano d'Apparizio, laico professo dell'ordine de' Minori Osservanti del Padre S. Francesco della provincia del Santo Evangelio nel Messico. Roma: Stamperia Salomoni, 1789. 4to (24.2 cm, 9.5"). xvi pp., port., 228 pp., [1] f. [with] Coleccion de estampas que representan los principales pasos, echos, y prodigios del Bto.. Frai Sebastian de Aparizio, relig[ios]o. franciscano de la provincia del S[an]to Evangelio de Mexico. Dispuesta por el R.P. Fr. Mateo Ximenez. Roma: por el incisor Pedro Bombelli, 1789. 4to (23.5
cm, 9.125"). Engr. title, [100] of [129] plts.
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Finding the "life" and the volume of plates together is uncommon. Only by happenstance did the two volumes come to us within months of one another, from two different continents, allowing us to marry them for this offering. For example, in the U.S., only the Lilly and Bancroft Libraries report owning both works. There is some question as to the number of plates in a complete copy of the Colección: Some sources call for an engraved title-page and 128 plates, while others call for 129 plates. There seems not to have been an edition of the Vita in Spanish.
Catholic Memorials — Meaty & UnpublishedYoung, George. Manuscript in English, on paper. “St. Pancras Old Church, London. Roman Catholic headstone inscriptions.” [London], 1847. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). 228, [2] pp.
Click any image where the hand appears onan index of the 516 names mentioned herein, along with an engraving depicting the old St. Pancras, with a note that it was enlarged in 1848. A later member of the Young family has obligingly noted that the transcriber was born in 1811 and died in 1884, meaning that this is not the Scottish George Young known as a topographer and geologist.
Fascinating.
Shaker “Statement” Youngs, Benjamin Seth. The testimony of Christ's second appearing; containing a general statement of all things pertaining to the faith and practice of the Church of God in this latter-day. Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1810. 12mo. xxxviii, 620, [2] pp.
Click the image to the right • Shaw & Shoemaker 22127. Full original sheep, spine showing flex marks with small chips at extremities and a gilt-stamped leather title-label; first and last leaves with offsetting from leather turn-ins. Short tear at top margin of one leaf, without touching any text; some scattered spots of foxing. Ex-library with (attractive) old pressure-stamp to half-title, five-digit accession number rubber-stamped on front pastedown and base of p. [iii], evidence that an inked call-number on spine was sometime obscured. A clean, nice, solid copy. (21126)
“Différente”Zallinger zum Thurm, Jakob Anton von. Institutionum juris naturalis et ecclesiastici publici. Romae: In Collegio Urbano, 1832. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 2 vols. I: [4], 618, [2 (blank)], 619–29, [1] pp. II: [4], 201, [5 (3 blank)], 203–602, [2 (1 blank)] pp.
• DeBacker-Sommervogel, VIII, 1446. 19th-century half vellum over marbled paper–covered sides, spines with inked titles; sides and edges a bit scuffed, with spines darkened. Front pastedowns with institutional bookplates; title-pages with early inked ownership inscriptions. Most pages lightly to moderately foxed. All edges speckled blue. A good sound set.
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Zeltner, Gustav Georg. ...De theologo svspicioso schediasma qvo theologiae stvdiosos ad dispvtationes svper breviario controvers. Cvm remonstrantibvs habendas avdiendasque olim permanter invitavit nvnc cvm additamentis necessariis recvsvm. Noribergae: Sumpt. Ioannis Christophori Goepneri, 1734. 4to.
• Removed from a bound volume.
Peaceable Kingdom but NOT a Peaceful Era Zwick, Johannes. Ayn schlächte aber trüwe Vermannung Doctor Hannsen Zwickenn. Wie Gottes Gutthatten, in grosser Danckbarkait zu erkennen, damit sy nit widerumb verloren werdint zu gut Christenlicher Gemaynd der Statt Costantz. [Konstanz?]: no publisher/printer [Spitzenberg?], 1528. 4to. [20] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Uncommon in U.S. libraries: Via searches of OCLC, RLIN and NUC Pre-1956 we locate only this now-deaccessioned and one other copy.
Provenance: Signature of Howard Osgood on title-page and A2.
• VD16 Z734. Removed from a pamphlet volume and later in wrappers no longer present except for remnants on spine. Old library pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A nice copy. (19995)
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