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L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduction Nouvelle par l'Abbé F. de Lomennais.
Quebec: Zech & Fils, nd. Read More
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Chemical Change in the Eucharist. In four letters shewing the relations of faith to sense from the French of Jacquws...
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston...for the Editor, [1867]. Printed Whittingham & Wilkins at the Chiswick Press. Anti-Catholic rant against Transubstantiation. Read More
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Photographic portrait of Abbott, seated at his desk.
New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. [1920?]. Signed by the famous Congregationalist minister who took over Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation: “Yours sincerely / Lyman Abbott.” Provenance: C.N. Thomas of Underwood and Underwood. Read More
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The Evidences of the Christian Religion…to which are added Several Discourses against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the...
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1733. Second edition. Read More
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The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in Three Books.
“London [i.e., Newcastle?]: [s.n.], Printed in the year 1744”. Pirated edition (?). Bound with 3 others: [ANONYMOUS]. Lucius and Celadon: or, a Dialogue on the Existence and Immortality of the Soul. [4], 68 pp. 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by I. Thompson and Company, for Thomas Slack, 1755. ESTCN33841; Apparently the first... Read More
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![Kitab Dala’il al-Khairat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salah ‘ala al-Nabi al-Mukhtar [Guidebook of Benefits and Illuminations of Prayers to the Chosen Prophet]. Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Sulayman Al-Jazuli.](/pictures/thumb/267230.jpg?v=1534807002)
Kitab Dala’il al-Khairat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salah ‘ala al-Nabi al-Mukhtar [Guidebook of Benefits and Illuminations of Prayers to...
[N.p., North Africa: early to mid-18th century C.E.]. The well-known handbook of rituals and prayers associated with the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. This devotional work by Al-Jazuli (d. 1465) was intended to remind the reader of the importance of prayer and its benefits, and also to render such... Read More
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Dictionnaire portatif des prédicateurs françois : dont les sermons, prônes, homélies, panégyriques, et oraisons funèbres sont imprimés : où l'on...
Lyon: Pierre Bruyset Ponthus, 1757. First edition. Biographical dictionary of French preachers, with useful bibliographical content. Read More
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The Ladies Calling In Two Parts [AND] The Art of Contentment [AND] The Government of the Tongue.
Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705; 1705; 1702. The eighth impression of “The Ladies Calling;”; early impression of “The Art of Contentment;” the sixth impression of “The Government of the Tongue”. Read More
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ALS. "Rev and Dear Sir" Acknowledging receipt of Annals Vol. VIII Unitarian.
Philadelphia: April 20, 1865. Librarian at the Lenox Library from 1879-1888. Read More
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An Historical Discourse concerning the Necessity of the Ministers Intention in Administring the Sacraments.
London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1688. First edition. Due to the Edict of Nantes Allix was forced to leave France for England where he founded a French church for refugees based upon the Anglican church. He was highly esteemed for his learning and principles and on intimate terms with eminent... Read More
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Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum, cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fidei, praeceptis decalogi & initio Evangelii S. Johannis.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1789. Read More
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Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fidei.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. Read More
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Alphabetum Barmanorum seu regni Avensis. Editio altera emendatior.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1787. Second, revised edition, following the 1776 first edition. Text rewritten, plate enlarged. Read More
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The First Burmese Type
Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae finitimarumque regionum. Editio altera emendatior.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1776. First edition. The First Burmese Type. Read More
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Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More
Price: $1,500
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Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title].
[Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, n.d., 1809]. The last in the series of elegant type specimens of exotic languages issued by the Propaganda Press from the 1770s onward. Uncommon. Read More
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Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis Decalogi.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Read More
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Alphabetum Hebraicum Addito Samaritano et Rabbinico cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, & Symbolo Apostolico.
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More
Price: $900
Preces Sancti Nersetis…viginti quatour linguis edit [by H. Aukerian].
Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1837. A fine polyglot version of the writings. Read More
Price: $400
Jansenist Leader
Les Regles de la Morale Chrestienne, Recueilles du Nouveau Testament par Saint Basile le Grand Archevesque de Cesaree.
Paris: Chez C. Saureux, 1661. Jansenist Leader. With the signature of Ant[oine] Arnauld on the title and a notation by Prospere Zorbé confirming Arnauld's ownership on verso of endpaper. Arnauld, known as "the Great Arnauld" of the noted family of lawyers was the disciple of Cornelius Jansen and leader of... Read More
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Prophets, Oracles, and Sacrifices
Spiegel der Sibyllen, van Vierderley Vertooningen ... Seer rykelijk verçiert met allerhande raare Kopere platen, waar onder de XII Sibyllen...
Amsterdam: Gedrukt [by Hendrik Harmensz] voor d'Autheur, waar by dit werk ook te bekomen is, op de Bloemgraft, omtrent de drukkery van d'Heer Blaauw : en by Timotheus ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper in de Nes, naast de Brakke-Gront, 1685. First edition. Prophets, Oracles, and Sacrifices. Four-part work on religion in the... Read More
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Bandi Generali da Publicarsi di Comissione di Nostro Sig.
[In Roma: Apresso glì Stampatori Camerali, 1699]. Read More
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Autograph letter signed “S. Baring Gould”.
North Devon: Lew Trenchard, 24 May 1907. Baring-Gould, the eminent novelist, essayist and vicar, is best recalled as the author of the verses to “Onward Christian Soldiers” and “Now the Day is Over” as well as his notable “Book of Were-Wolves.” On the death of his father, the squire of... Read More
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Quadruplex missalis expositio: litteralis scilicet allegorica, tropologica et anagogica; sic ordinata, ut etiám populo expediat predicari publice quo ad litteralem...
Basle: Michael Furter, 1509. Second edition (first printed 1505). Extremely rare and beautifully printed work on the literary, allegorical, spiritual and liturgical aspects of the Roman Catholic Mass, first printed in 1505 by Furter, one of the first generation of printers in Basel. Bechoffen is identified on the colophon page... Read More
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Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, ouvrage extrait des manuscrits de M. Jérémie Bentham…par Et. Dumont...
Paris: Chez Bossange et Masson, et a Londres, 1818. Second edition. First published in 1811. This book was Translated from Bentham's mss. by Dumont and was not published in English until 1830, then under the title The Rationale of Punishment. This is the second edition. Read More
Price: $1,500