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Monachii (Munich) : J. B. Dreselly, 1838. RARE. No Date, circa 1838-39. Very Good, edges rubbed, boards lightly spotted, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Douglas Stilwell front paste down. Portrait frontispiece of Durer with pictorial title page, 43 leaves each containing the Lord's Prayer in a different language, surrounded by decorations by Durer in different colors and one leaf on stiff paper stock in green, red, and black with a rubricated passage from St. Luke. A RARE and valuable work of decorated lithography. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Neuveville, Switzerland : De L'Imprimerie de Fred. Reuner , 1799. Three volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf, backs gilt, the book plates of Henry Drummond, Albury Park, Surrey front paste downs. Henry Drummond (1786-1860) was an English author, banker and politician best known as a founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church, also known as the Irvingian Church. The set Very Good Plus, light rubbing at edges and corners, toning at end pages only, interiors quite clean and bright. A handsome set with distinguished and relevant provenance, Worldcat notes 8 library holdings worldwide. . First Edition. Mottled Calf. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1952. RARE. Near Fine, wrappers light soil and small creases. One of 500 unnumbered copies printed for Helen J. Chase. A translation of a twelfth-century liturgical play. . First Edition. French Wrappers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Oneida, NY: Oneida Community, 1877. Ten complete issues all Near Fine, a few small corner creases, 3 issues with small notebook holes at spine. Includes Vol. II, Nos.3, 16, 33, and 47, Jan. 18, Apr. 19, Aug. 16, and Nov. 22, 1877, Vol. III, Nos. 9, 11, 14, Feb. 28, Mar. 14, Apr.11, 1878, and Vol. IV, Nos. 2, 11, 13, Jan. 9, Mar. 13, and Mar. 27, 1879. . First Edition. Newsprint. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

New York: Printed for T. & J. Swords , 1796. 178 pages, booksellers' advertisement, p. [179], half-title. Small contemporary bookplate of David Goodwin, with his name in ink at title page. additional prior owner name in pencil front end page. Bound in contemporary calf, red label with gilt lettering back, Very Good Minus, joints starting to open at top edges, final blank end page with 1" x 3" chip bottom corner, light to moderate toning throughout. Uncommon in contemporary binding. Evans 31569.. Early American Imprint. Calf. Very Good Minus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel Publishing,, 1979. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" To Jim and Beth, with affectionate best wishes and prayers - & thanks. Ever devotedly in Notre Dame, Father Ted Hesburgh". . Important education and Civil Rights Association Copy. James Armsey, ( 1918-2008) was the Ford Foundation executive who oversaw grants to universities and colleges in the 1960s, with the only requirement that they had to raise matching funds from other sources. At his urging the Foundation added the requirement that the colleges and universities could not bar black students. This change caused a number of them, including Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Emory University, Tulane University, and several major private colleges, to admit black students for the first time. Father Ted Hesburgh (1917-2015) was president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and one of the nation’s most… Read More

New York: BAHA'I PUBLISHING COMMITTEE, 1930. Very Good, numbers in white base of spine, inked numbers and blindstamp of the State of West Virginia, Dept. of Archives and History at title page. No other markings internally. Hinges starting front and rear yet holding nicely. A SCARCE publication. xv, 377 pp. With illustrations, photographs, map and color frontispiece with tissue guard. . First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hungary: Helikon Kiado , 1990. Book is Fine, bound in brown leather with intricate gilt decoration, and in a Very Good Plus slipcase, small sticker shadow and a bit of rubbing at the edges. The Bibliotheca Corviniana was one of the most renowned libraries of the Renaissance world. Gorgeous plates throughout. Text in Hungarian. . First Edition Thus. Leather. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848. A First Edition set, published 1848, 1850, 1852, and 1864 of her major works on Christian art, done in the last twenty years of her life, the last completed after her death in 1860 by her friend Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. Lavishly illustrated by her own drawings and etchings, and by those of Gerardine Macpherson, her niece. Finely bound by Bickers, London, their name stamped on wide inner dentelles each volume. Dark blue crushed morocco with gilt rules and lettering, top edges gilt, marbled end papers, silk markers, Near Fine, the scantest of shelf rubbing. end papers evenly toned from dentelles. An exceptional and heavy set, please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . First Editions. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1877. Three volumes, 6 1/8" h x 3 3/4" h, One of 100 unnumbered copies printed on Whatman paper, in Fine signed Saulnier bindings of half crushed carmel morocco over marbled boards, four raised bands, gilt lettering, rules and tail date bordered by tooled rules, top edges gilt, marbled end papers, ribbon markers. A Fine set, beautifully bound. . Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Bourbon County, KY: Hoke S. Dickinson, 1972. Reprint of the 1847 first edition. Near Fine, very slight ruubbing to cloth at spine ends, slight soiling to edges of page block. . Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Huntingdon, PA: Quinter & Brumbaugh Brothers , 1879. "Carefully Revised, Rearranged and Otherwise Improved" from the 1872 first edition published by Funk and Holsinger. Very Good Minus, original black leather stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt at spine mostly lost, tears to leather with some loss of leather at spine ends and edges and corners, hinges just starting to open, many pages with top corners creased contemporary owner name with lovely drawings front end page, as well as a later owner's name. Contains words and music. (2), 406 pages, with Index to First Lines, Alphabetical Index of Tunes, Metrical Index of Tunes, and Index of Subjects. RARE, OCLC locates only a single copy, at the Luther Seminary Library. No auction records found, no other copies in current commerce. . Revised Edition. Leather. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, 1869. RARE in current commerce, a copy last seen at auction 1969 (RBH). 151 pages, 4 portraits, one folded map. Contains (pp. 46-48) Indian Names (in Connecticut) by J. Hammond Trumbull. Very Good Plus, light soiling and rubbing to cloth, some toning at end papers and associated with plates, a period newspaper clipping laid in at p.85, perhaps as a bookmark. Folding Map of Norwich West Farms 1663-1725 is Fine. **Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, vol. 7, p. 32 calls for 3 portraits, this copy has 4.**. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1701-1703 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia : The American Baptist Publication Society Bound in original green cloth with Cherokee alphabet printed rear covers. No Date, circa 1908-1924, the dates the American Baptist Publication Society was located at 1701-1703 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. A pocket-sized book, 3 1/2" x 5 1/4", 96 pages with Index. Without music, except "The Land of Beulah" (p. 86). Near Fine, cloth lightly rubbed. Gift inscription front end page from the Rev. and Mrs. Enoch Oule. Oule was listed as an Asst. Moderator for the Cherokee Indian Missionary Baptist Assoc. 86th Annual Session , Cherokee, NC, 1966. Originally published in 1866, Rare. See Pilling's Iroquoian bibliography, p. 173, one copy located (as of 1974). SCARCE in any early edition. . Later Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 3 1/2" x 5 1/4".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. Original brown cloth with gilt letterinf at spine, top edges gilt, black end papers, Very Good Plus, light wear to cloth at spine ends, faint area of erasure free end paper Vol. I, loose signature at middle of Vol. II. A handsome set, clean, tight, and unmarked. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1929. ix, 585 pp. Original printed wrappers, Very Good, small chips and tears and light edge wear to wrappers. Uncommon in current commerce. The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication No. 2. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Providence, RI: Richard H. Taylor, 2009. As New, small spot of soil rear wrapper. 353 pages. . Limited Edition. Printer Wrappers. As New/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Springfield, Ohio: A. H. Bassett Publishing Agent , 1867. SCARCE imprint, OCLC locates 8 libraries in the US holding copies. A pocket-sized book, 4 3/4" h x 3" w, 132 pages, Very Good in original quarter calf over marbled boards, 3/8" calf missing at head of spine, boards well rubbed. lacking 2nd blank front end page, early writing in pen and pencil and soiling at end pages, gilt title at spine faint yet still legible. Contents clean and unmarked. . First Edition Thus. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 4 3/4" h x 3" W.

Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersche Verlagschandlung, 1882. RARE in current commerce, no auction records found. xviii, 330 pages.Text in German, Latin, and Arabic. At first attributed to Aristotle, De Causis later came to be recognized as being derived from "Elements of Theology" by Proclus. Bound in contemporary half black morocco over decorative embossed metallic paper boards, gilt title back, Art Deco end papers, the small ticket of William Salloch of New York, noted bookseller, at front paste down. Very Good, institutional stamps of "Arca Seminarii Philos. Lib., Prov. Mo. S.J." , remnants of bookplates front end papers, call letters stamped at base of spine, scattered light pencil markings in text, dampstain at gutters of first few front pages. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1792. In contemporary marbled calf, red morocco label with gilt lettering back, viii, 9-396 pp. Contains 28 sermons. Volume II only of the 2 volume set. Very Good, a few pages with marginal marks and notations in pencil, moderate toning throughout, boards rubbed, first front end page almost separated. The period ownership signature at title page of David Goodwin. Possibly David Goodwin (c.1744-1825), who served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War, later represented Charlestown in the Massachusetts legislature, and he was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bible Society. Printed by Isaiah Thomas, (1749-1831), the famous Yankee patriot, printer, newspaper editor, historian, and founder of the American Antiquary Society. . Early American Imprint. Marbled Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.