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RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João. Litterae iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. P. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. missae.Antwerp : 1615
Second Latin edition of this relation concerning the Jesuit mission to Japan during the years 1609 and 1610, the first Italian edition was published by Bartolomeo Zanetti in Rome, 1615, and the first Latin edition, translated by Halloix, appeared in Douai, 1615. The report was addressed to the Superior General of the order, Claudio Acquaviva (1543-1615)... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 87948
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(BIBLE; English, Authorized version.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New;London : 1660; 1660; 1661
An attractively bound copy of the Bible, Book of Common Prayer and Psalms, all dating from the time of the Restoration. It is difficult to find copies of these texts from this period complete and in good condition. The Bible is one of two issues of that year, this distinguished by the presence of the Apocrypha, here bound between the Old and New Testaments.... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 128840
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GLADSTONE, William Ewart. "Ecce Homo".London : 1868
First edition of Gladstone's book-length review of J. R. Seeley's controversial Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ (1866), originally published in the monthly periodical Good Words. Seeley's purpose was "to suggest by analogy that just as 'the drama of ancient society had been played out', and its traditions and morals and civic... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 141823
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(RELIGION.) [Tract volume containing 11 works, 1742-1800.]A collection of religious tracts, predominantly Scottish imprints and mostly dating from the last decade of the 18th century, and bound soon after. The collection provides a valuable illustration of popular theology of the time, with many of the works present going through many editions, while two of the works are apparently unrecorded. Comprising:
i)... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 125275
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BIBLE; English; Authorized version. The Holy Bible,Cambridge : 1768
A handsomely printed Georgian Bible in a grand period binding, from the library of the prominent Liverpool merchant and slave trader John Sparling (1731-1800).
Both volumes are lettered in gilt on the front cover "John Sparling, Esqr." with dark brown morocco labels lettered "St. Domingo House, 1790. Lancashire"; also with the armorial bookplate... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 116480
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ISLAM; Hajj. Two related documents concerning the hajj,Mecca : 1974 & 1978
Two very scarce, ephemeral pieces concerning the hajj.
1. Enumeration of Pilgrims to Holy House of God
The title refers to the Kaaba within the Great Mosque at Mecca, the front cover featuring a portrait of Crown Prince Khaled. At this time Khaled was dealing with the affairs of the Governorate of Mecca on behalf of his brother, King Faisal,... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 141613
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[WISHART, William.] The Principles of Liberty of Conscience Stated and Defended: In a Letter to a Friend.Edinburgh : 1739
First edition. Writing under the odd pseudonym Gwitmarpscheldon, William Wishart (1691-1753), a liberal Church of Scotland Minister, provides a defence of religious toleration and liberty of conscience. Arguing from a religious rather than secular basis, Wishart argues that toleration is in the spirit of Christian ethics, that freedom of conscience... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 117451
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BEARBLOCK, James. A Treatise Upon Tithes:London : 1818
Fifth edition, enlarged, first published in 1805. Bearcroft offers both a defence of tithes, which had become increasingly unpopular and frequently evaded, and the method to calculate and pay the dues.
Provenance: The Lawes Agricultural Library, with their pencilled shelfmarks though without direct attribution. The library was assembled in the... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 129243
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HILDEBRAND, G. B. The Applications of Prophecy to the Crimean War;London : 1864
First and only edition, extremely uncommon - both Library Hub and WorldCat list three locations (BL, NLS, Cambridge). The text concludes "End of Volume I", but this is all published. An extraordinary sustained exercise in apocalyptic biblical exegesis by a mind stimulated, or perhaps over-stimulated, by the ongoing war in the Crimea. The author saw... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 121341
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SELDEN, John. The Historie of Tithes.[London : 1618
First edition. John Selden (1584-1654) was perhaps the most notable jurist and legal scholar of the first half of the 17th century; John Milton declared him in the Areopagitica "the chief of learned men reputed in this land". The Historie of Tithes marked a major refinement in Selden's theory and practice of history, and was meticulously researched,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 129239
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SMART, Christopher. [Complete set of the Seatonian Prize Poems:]Cambridge : 1750-6
A rare complete set of Smart's Seatonian Prize-winning poems on the Supreme Being, all first editions except for Omniscience which is a second (1756). This set is attractively presented together in a contemporary binding with the library label to the front board of Montacute House, Somerset, the home of the Phelips family, and the contemporary ownership... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 120509
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WILLIS, Browne. An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbeys, and Conventual Cathedral Churches.London : 1718-9
First editions. Educated Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, "through his father Willis inherited Whaddon Hall, where he was to live until his death, together with the adjoining manor and advowson of Bletchley. He also owned the manor of Burlton in Burghill, Herefordshire, and his estate was augmented by the dowry of 7000 obtained through his marriage...... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 139647
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LEWIS, C. S. The Screwtape Letters.London : 1942
First edition, first impression. Taking the form of a series of letters between an experienced devil and a subordinate, The Screwtape Letters addresses numerous questions of Christian theology. Though the book sparkles with wit, Lewis found its composition difficult and unpleasant: "The strain produced a sort of spiritual cramp... It almost smothered... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132223
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GREGORY, John. A Father's Legacy to his Daughters.London : 1774
Second edition, first published the same year, and one of several editions published in 1774. "After the death of his wife, on 29 September 1761, Gregory wrote A Father's Legacy to his Daughters to relieve his loneliness and to record her opinions about the education of their two surviving daughters... He may have incorporated the advice given him by... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 130297
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GAY SUNSHINE PRESS. Queer Dharma.San Francisco : 1998-2000
First edition, first printing, scarce cloth issue, of this unprecedented anthology of gay Buddhist writing. This copy derives from the personal collection of editor and publisher Winston Leyland, with his inscription "Winston Leyland July 2017" to both title pages. The majority of the limited hardback issues of Gay Sunshine Press books were sold to... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 123281
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MORE, Hannah. Christian Morals.London : 1813
First edition. The leading bluestocking of her generation, Hannah More (1745-1833) and her four sisters were educated so as to earn a living for themselves, and ran a very successful and well-respected boarding-school for girls in Bristol. "More's role as moral guardian of the nation became increasingly politicized as a consequence of the French Revolution.... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 140267
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PUGIN, Augustus Welby Northmore. Autograph letter, with original captioned ink sketch, to Henry Ridgard Bagshawe.Ramsgate, Kent : 1841
A wittily satirical sketch by Pugin, the Roman Catholic architect, sent to his friend Henry Ridgard Bagshawe (1799-1870), a prominent Catholic lawyer. Bagshawe sat on the committee of the Lincoln's Inn Fields district New Church Erection Fund. That area already had the Sardinian Chapel, well-known as the oldest Roman Catholic chapel in London and restored... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 46369
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PRIESTLEY, Joseph. Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever.Birmingham : 1787
First edition of the second part, second edition of the first part (first published in 1780). The Letters form part of a series of publications by Priestley in the last two decades of the 18th century rejecting the atheistic and sceptical philosophy then ascendant. Priestley conceived the project on his visit to Paris in 1774, where he recorded that... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 136695
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ARS MORIENDI. Ars Moriendi ex.Nuremberg : [1510]
First of three Latin editions printed by Weissenburger. The book derives from the Tractatus (or Speculum) artis bene moriendi, composed in 1415 by an anonymous Dominican friar, probably at the request of the Council of Constance. Owing to its popularity, a shorter version of Ars Moriendi was taken from the second chapter, dealing with the five temptations... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 90894
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MACDIARMID, John, of Weem. An Enquiry into the Principles of Civil and Military Subordination.London : 1806
Rare first and only edition of this investigation into "natural" and "artificial" subordination, and in particular into the specifically military institutions of the latter and their possible improvement. From the library of the marquess of Londonderry, an attractive copy with an excellent military provenance.
Macdiarmid's (17791808) father... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139663
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(DULEEP SINGH) CONYBEARE, W. J., The Rev. & The Rev. J. S. Howson. The Life and Epistles of St. Paul.London : 1855
Inscribed on the first blank of volume I; "To the Revd. G. J. Colinson sic with the best wishes of Duleep Singh, Roehampton June 18 1856". This suitably soberly bound set of an early edition of a handsomely illustrated popular biographical study of the Apostle, perhaps the greatest Christian conversion narrative, may seem an apposite choice for this... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142745
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(KATIP ÇELEBI.) HERBELOT, Barthelémy d'. Bibliothèque orientale.The Hague : 1777-9.
First published in 1697, this revised and expanded edition of d'Herbelot's monumental work is "generally considered the best" (Arcadian Library, p. 238), containing supplements by J. J. Reiske, "undoubtedly the best Arabist in Germany" (ibid.), Leiden professor H. A. Schultens, and other pre-eminent 18th-century orientalists. The Bibliothèque orientale... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 117606
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FRANCKLIN, William. Researches on the Jeynes and Boodhists;London : 1827
First edition of a key book in the formation of the Victorian discourse about Buddhism and Brahmanism, which also includes include a discussion of serpent worship in various parts of the world.
Francklin (1763-1839) was the son of the classical scholar and dramatist Thomas Francklin. He enjoyed a considerable reputation as an oriental scholar,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 96923
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WILSON, James. The Life and Dreadful Sufferings of Captain James Wilson, In various Parts of the Globe,Portsea : 1810
First edition of the first biography of James Wilson, captain of the Duff on her first missionary voyage to the South Seas.
"Although there are several accounts of James Wilson's life, sufferings and missionary voyage, this was the earliest biography of him to appear. Written anonymously, this lively telling follows Wilson's life from his birth... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 70373
