Religion from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. Photographs by Bert Koch. 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 80pp. Color frontispiece, diagram, numerous illustrations, numerous tipped-in color plates (a couple foldouts). Fine/near fine. Outstanding first edition of this close examination of the early 16th century sculptural triptych masterpiece attributed to Matthias Grünewald and Nikolaus of Haguenau… Read more about this item

Ipswich: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Translation by J.G. Pilkington. Introduction by George N. Schuster. Illustrations by Edy Legrand. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt lettering and gilt-lettered front board calf label with natural linen boards, slipcase with paper spine label. xxx, 296pp. Full-page color plates, color pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. This hefty LEC production of the… Read more about this item

New York: The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Faux vellum with gilt lettering, slipcase with wraparound paper label. (Ca. 75pp). 32 full-page color plates, single sepia-tone plate. Near fine/very good. Faint slipcase wear only. Handsome first of this edition, introduced by the Metropolitan's noted director and with Cloisters curator Margaret B. Freeman providing… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, Inc, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Faux vellum paper over boards with gilt spine lettering and front board device, slipcase with paper label. 359pp. Extensive full-page color plates. Near fine/near fine. Tiniest smudge on title page. Handsome undated later printing of this 1960 edition, almost all of its 160 gorgeously calligraphed, rubricated and illuminated leaves face-to-face with… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 183pp. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. First edition, superb and tight.

Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards. viii, 415pp. Tables. Fine. Tight, superb first edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with black spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 280pp. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine ever so faintly sunned. Handsome early (not first) printing, exceptionally tight and bright.

Salem, NH: Ayer Company, Publishers, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Mustard buckram with black spine lettering. 150pp, (2pp ads). Illustrations, line drawings. Fine. Pristinely tight and nice facsimile reprint of this study of an ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, first published by CWK Gleerup in Lund, Sweden in 1957. Surprisingly and weirdly scarce.

Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1996. Paperback. Translation by Robin Waterfield. Foreword by Keith Critchlow. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 130pp. Near fine. Tight and near pristine second printing of the softbound edition.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 214pp. Fine/fine. Front flyleaf ownership signature. Pristine third printing.

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1970. Hardcover. Foreword by Frederick C. Grant. 8vo. Salmon cloth with black spine lettering. xxxv, 359pp. Very good. Spine faintly sunned; ownership signature on half-title page and a few sentences on a dozen or so pages underlined. Tight and clean facsimile reprint of this 1957 study.

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. Hardcover. Illustrations by Henry P. Riviere and Joseph Pennell. 12mo. Green cloth with black spine lettering and decoration. xvii, 618pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous full-page plates and small text illustrations. Very good. Tight and clean, with text block near fine. First American edition of this thick study and one of the last books by… Read more about this item

Oxford: John Basket, 1727. Hardcover. Folio. Modern rebind in black leatherette with gilt spine lettering and new endpapers. Unpaginated. Two engraved frontispieces, historiated initials, two small engravings, single large foldout map ("Map shewing ye Situation of Paradice"). Modern rebind is pristine and tight; text block very good overall, with only the first few and last few leaves a tad… Read more about this item

Allentown, PA: Trexler, Harlacher und Weisser, 1864. Paperback. 8vo. Blue printed wrappers. 94pp. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) a bit age toned, with a couple small edge chips; lacks rear folding chart found in some copies. Sharp copy, entirely in German, for this annual assembly of the German Evangelical-Lutheran Ministry of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States. This yearly report records… Read more about this item

Together with Theodore Herzl, this Hungarian-born Parisian author, physician and social critic co-founded the Zionist Organization in 1897 and led the movement for what he termed "muscular Judaism" in his books and essays. ANS (in French), 1p, 4½" X 7", Paris, France, 11 February 1906. Near fine. Boldly penned in purple ink entirely in French, it translates roughly: "Sir… Read more about this item

This Universalist minister and historian expounded his belief that Universalism dominated Christianity in its early centuries in such books as "Witnesses to the Truth: Containing Passages From Distinguished Authors, Developing the Great Truth of Universal Salvation" (1854) and others; in 1885 he published his own version of the New Testament -- "Hanson's edited New Testament"; his experiences as a… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1948. Paperback. 8vo. Heavy manila card stock wrappers with front wrapper mounted. viii, 287pp. Very good. Minor wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally near fine. First and likely sole printing of this "Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the Catholic… Read more about this item

Garden City: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1961. Paperback. Edited by Theodor H. Gaster. Small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xx, 426pp. Very good. Tight and attractive first of this revised single-volume abridgment of the influential comparison of mythology and religion by the Scottish anthropologist first published between 1890 and 1915. Two-column format.

Budapest: Helikon Kiado, 1984. Hardcover. 4to. Full brown blind-embossed calf with raised bands and with ornate brass cornerpieces, centerpieces and clasps. (Ca. 400pp). Extensive full-color illustrations and marbled endpapers, sewn-in brown satin page marker. Near fine. Housed in as-issued rustic white cardboard slipcase with large color pictorial label. Very good. Handsome full facsimile of this medieval illuminated manuscript of… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. Folio. Quarter vellum with gilt lettering and red cloth, slipcase. (Ca. 400pp). Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/very good. A lovely and fresh copy of this outstanding facsimile, with a fine copy of the accompanying 24pp folio illustrated introductory pamphlet by Braunfels. The Codex Aureas of Lorsch or "Lorsch Gospels," named after the… Read more about this item