Dresden: Verlag von Emil Pahl, 1926. First edition with manuscript notations under quote from Bacon and on last leaf of text. Inscribed by author's son and the editor, William E. Hofmann to Mr. Hugh M. Anderson but apparently retained. Copies of the reviews and a letter prepared for presentation of..... Read More about Grundzüge der Körperlehre

Geneva, Ontario Co., New York: Printed by S.P. Hull, 1821 [cover with 1822 imprint]. First edition. The first biography of the evangelist Jemima Wilkinson. Calling herself Public Universal Friend and preaching abstinence and strict adherence to the Ten Commandments, Wilkinson lead her followers deep into the Finger Lakes area near..... Read More about History of Jemima Wilkinson, a Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century

Copenhagen: P. Jónssyni for S.L. Møller, 1838. New edition, originally published in 1739. Mnemonic guide to religious and secular dates of the Gregorian calendar using finger counting and rhymes. Read More about Dactylismus Ecclesiasticus; edur Fingra-Rím, vidvifjandi Kyrkju-Arsins Tímum

New York: George Braziller, 1967. No. 81 of 1,000 copies. Full color facsimile of the Lorsch Gospels, with illustrated ccommentary by Wolfgang Braunfels. Read More about The Lorsch Gospels. Introduction by Wolfgang Braunfels

Edinburgh: Sold by Ogle & Aikman, and Cuthrie & Tait, etc, 1807. First edition. Ffep inscribed: “Gilbert Ogilvy from Brother James / 31st January 1818”. Read More about Sketches of Human Nature; or Hints, Chiefly Relating to the Duties and Difficulties that Occur in...

London, England: The Harvill Pres Ltd, [1959]. Schmid, Elsa. One of 110 copies were printed on Fabriano, a mould made paper, made in Italy. The type 12 point Palatino, set at Huxley House, New York. The book printed at the Olsen Press, Newark ... with the kind permission of the..... Read More about The Poems of St. John the Cross. Spanish Text with a Translation by Roy Campbell. Preface by M.C....

Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1672. The Principis Cristiani Archetypon is one of Kircher's works on the virtues proper to a prince: "interesting for its noble and lucid style" (Merrill). Kircher begins by contrasting the ideal prince and good government with the vices of a bad ruler, following this with..... Read More about Principis Christiani Archetypon Politicum

a Londres: Paul Vaillant dans le Strand, 1764. Nouvelled edition revue et corrigée. Probably printed in the Netherlands. Read More about La Liturgie, ou Formulaire des Prieres Publiques selon l'usage de L'Eglise Anglicane

Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1863. First edition, printed at the author’s expense at the Academic press, Berlin. Early work on Old Testament translation issues from the German biblical scholar and orientalist Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891), professor at Göttingen, and a fine association, from the library of the chief translator of the Jewish..... Read More about Anmerkungen zur griechischen Übersetzung der Proverbien

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, Junior, May 1802. First American edition. Polemical tract on the superiority of Christianity to the imposture of Mahomet, in which “the author has, on every suitable occasion, made such moral reflection as seemed naturally to arise out of the topics before him.” Originally published: South Shields [England]..... Read More about The Life of Mahomet; Or, the History of that Imposture Which was Begun, Carried on and Finally...

Alany: Printed by I. W. Clark, 1822. Read More about The Sin Against the Holy Ghost, Illustrated in A Discourse delivered on the Evening of the 7th...

Germanton [Germantown, Pa.]: Leibert und Billmeyer, 1785. First edition of the authorized version of the Pennsylvania Ministerium catechism. Rare Pensylvania Children's Catechism. The German American catechisms played an important role in education, in addition to their obvious role in the moral training of the young, they were also used for..... Read More about Der kleine Catechismus des sel. D. Martin Luthers. Nebst den gewöhnlichen Morgen- Tisch- und...

“The Tompkins School, Oakland”: Aug. 2, 1898. Early letter from Markham (1852-1940), written a year before the publication of his first book, which launched his fame, THE MAN WITH THE HOE (1899). “… I am the principal of the above school and have held the position for many years …..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles Edwin Markham”)to Mrs. Briggs, regarding his library, his...