L'Office du Matin pour les Dimanches, et les Festes de L'Anne'e.
Paris: 1739. 12mo. Hardcover. pp. 647. Full calf, gilt spine, all edges gilt. Missal with the church offices and feast days. Exceptional binding. More
Paris: 1739. 12mo. Hardcover. pp. 647. Full calf, gilt spine, all edges gilt. Missal with the church offices and feast days. Exceptional binding. More
Limoges: Dalpayrat & Depelley. 12mo. Hardcover. pp 534. Fine full original morocco binding with decorative pattern on boards and end papers. Illustrated missal for the offices and feast days of the Catholic Church. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. pp. 32, original printed covers. An original pamphlet "in which the objections of the Rationalists are considered...". Conan Doyle wrote a number of works on his faith and spiritualism. A very good copy of this rare tract from the great, pioneering..... More
London: Thomas Baskett, 1751. 8vo. Hardcover. no pagination.Title page and contents,Tables of lessons, Book of Common Prayer, Psalms of David, Bible, Whole book of Psalms, 12 Articles of Faith. Annotations of previous owners from 1759. Original calf boards, neatly rebacked in later brown calf. Top edges trimmed with some minor..... More
London: Society for Promotion of Christian Knoweldge, 1840. Hardcover. c. 1840. Original full leather, worn on extremities, and on first few pages. Missing some final leaves. Family bible originally belonging to George Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, inscribed in Selwyn's writing, 26 Dec 1844, to James Ames.10 of the subsequent..... More
London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co, 1882. 1st Edition. 8vo. Half Morroco. x, [2], 215 pp. Green half morocco boards, gilt emblem on cover, minor discolouration on front board and base of spine. Blunt (1840-1922) was a poet, traveller and diplomat.A pioneering work on Islamic politics and the Ottoman Empire..... More
Lyon: Colenso, 1840. 1st Edition. 12mo. Hardcover. 125 pp. Original brown buckram linen, spine hinges showing some wear but firm. Printed in two columns. The first printing of the Book of Common Prayer in Maori, printed at The Bay of Islands by Colenso. Maori ownership "NaWirimu Tamahana" written in ink..... More
London: Robert Barker, 1607. 4to. Hardcover. pp. B, Psalms of the Day, The Creation, to pp 445; New Testament, Robert Barker 1607 (title page) ; pp1-136; A briefe table of the interpretation...; 16 unnumbered; The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected... Barker, 1607 (title page); pp 1-114; musical scores included in..... More
Lyon: Emmanuel Vitte, 1894. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. [8]. 285. [3] pp. Original quarter red roan and cloth boards with embossed emblem on front cover, and gilt decoration on spine. Book of services for the Catholic church, including hymns, illustrations, some text in Latin. Maori ownership written on verso of..... More
London: Jacob Thonson, 1708. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original Calf. Pp. [2], L, [2], 209, [1 - booklist]. Lacks frontispiece. Original panelled calf, neatly re-cased. Some pale staining on outer margins. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) was an Enlightenment author and philosopher writing particularly on the emerging sciences. Dialogues of..... More
Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1602. 12mo. Orig Vellum. pp. 14, 25 plates, 376, (40- index). Original full blind-stamped vellum (some damage to spine & marks on boards). All edges gilt and tooled with pattern. Two clasps, vellum & brass. Gallonio (1556-1605) was a priest living in Rome who wrote on the..... More
London: F H Hurd, 1874. 1st Edition. 12mo. Hardcover. viii, (9)-160, 4 (pp) ads. Inscription on front end paper, dated 1877. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Gilt edges. An account of the missionary work of Robinson, including on "the Manners and Customs of various Tribes Resident on the West..... More
London: Rivingtons, 1889. 8vo. Hardcover. 1st edition. Pp. 540. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco. Neat gilt stamp on spine and front board. A very good copy of the first edition in fine half leather binding. More
London: Cooke. Small 8vo. Hardcover. pp191 Original front roan board only. Each leaf has a woodcut illustration of the emblems relating to the text opposite. c.1790. Unusual item with fascinating illustrations. More
Paris: Mazieres & Jean-Baptiste Garnier, 1745. 12mo. Original Boards. Pp. [14], 585, [3],12. Bound together with: Retraite Religieuse Sur L'amour De Dieu, Tiree Des Paroles Du Cantique Des Cantiques. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Delespine. 1708. Pp. 80. Bound in original full mottled calf, gilt decorations on spine. Louis Tiberge (Thiberge) (1651-1730) was..... More