Category: Religion

Lourdes: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By: Barbe, Daniel. (translated by Alice Meynell)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Burns & Oates Ltd

Seller ID: 005533

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

(c.1893) . Large 8vo, 12 colour plates, pp 106, top edge gilt, the others uncut, internally a little foxed, dusty & marked, large contemporary inscription on front endpaper, cl slightly worn and rubbed.
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An Account of the Life, Travels and Christian Experiences in the Work of the Ministry of Samuel Bownas [Gillett family copy]

By: Bownas, Samuel (edited by Joseph Besse)

Price: £150.00

Publisher: At the Bible in George Yard, Lombard Street, Luke Hinde : 1756

Seller ID: 017803

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

First edition. Small octavo, pp viii, 198, + publisher's advert 2 pages, a little used internally, some pages with slight tears to the gutter margin, contemporary full calf, rubbed, worn at the corners, raised bands to the spine but no label. With the signature of an early owner John Gillett on the rear endpaper. With the further Quaker signatures of Joseph Gillett of Somerton and William S. Clark. [Samuel Bownas was born in 1676, to Quaker parents, although his father died when he was a month old. His father had been a Friend during the time of Quaker persecution, with meetings of the Friends...
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Speaking Parables: A Homiletic Guide

By: Buttrick, David

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Louisville, Kentucky, Westminster John Knox Press : 2000

Seller ID: 014417

ISBN-13: 9780664221911

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp xviii, 254, paperback, a very good copy. The book has a slight scent of cosmetics. [The author provides an introduction to the parables with a discussion of particular homiletical issues preachers face in interpreting parables. Speaking Parables includes commentary on thirty-three different parables with suggestions for preaching each one.]
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The Stations of the Cross

By: Carlin, Bruce

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Additional Curates Society : 1990

Seller ID: 014561

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp (6), 16, a neat signature on the title page, paperback, a very good copy. The book has a slight fragrance - perhaps cosmetics. [Postage will be reduced.]
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The Life of Pere Henri de Joyard

By: Durand, Andre

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, Burns & Oates Limited : 1916

Seller ID: 007140

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

6 plates, pp xvi, 292, a little age-toned and slightly worn internally, small round stamp on front endpaper and on title page, a small convent blind-stamp on the front endpaper, buckram slightly marked and worn, covers slightly bowed. [Translated by a Sister of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary, with a preface by Cardinal de Cabrieres and a foreword by Sydney Smith.)
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The Secret Room

By: Eames, Marion

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Gomer Press : 1995

Seller ID: 018856

ISBN: 0185902291x

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp 181, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly curled but still an excellent copy. [The author was a Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh. This is her best-known work of fiction - an historical novel Y Stafell Ddirgel (1969), which was translated into English by Margaret Phillips as The Secret Room (1975). This was later adapted as a BBC television drama series.]. {The story is set in the reign of King Charles II of England and follows the experiences of Quaker leader Rowland Ellis who founded a Welsh colony in Pennsylvania after being forced to leave Wales because o...
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Questioning Christian Origins [SIGNED AND WITH CORRECTIONS THROUGHOUT BY THE AUTHOR]

By: Elliott, J.K.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, SCM Press : 1982

Seller ID: 014394

ISBN-13: 9780334013556

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

12mo, pp (6), 149, age-toned, one inner hinge cracking, otherwise sound, paperback, covers very slightly worn. The book has a slight cosmetic scent. [An interesting copy, signed by the author, and with a tipped-in note fropm the author saying he has annotated the copy thoughtout with typographical and other corrections.]. {12mo, pp (6), 149, age-toned, one inner hinge cracking, otherwise sound, paperback, covers very slightly worn. [An interesting copy, signed by the author, and with a tipped-in note fropm the author saying he has annotated the copy thoughtout with typographical and other corr...
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Psyche's Task - a discourse concerning the influence of superstition on the growth of institutions

By: Frazer, Sir James George

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd : 1909

Seller ID: 018278

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Slim octavo, pp x, 84, veryclean internally, green cloth, lightly faded and with some abrasions, the lower cover slightly scuffed, lacking a piece at the head of the spine.
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Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola

By: Genelli, (Father)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Benziger Brothers

Seller ID: 019171

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small octavo, pp 398, + publisher's catalogue 14 pages, a tiny neat inscription and date on the front endpaper, slight foxing and marking but generally very clean and tight internally, green cloth, the spine slightly dull and very slightly worn. [The date on the verso of the title page is March 20th, 1917. The book is listed at 75 cents in the publisher's catalogue.]
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Histoire de Calejava, ou de L'Isle des Hommes Raisonnables; avec le paralelle de leur morale & du Christianisme

By: Gilbert, Claude

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Paris, Editions d'Histoire Sociale : 1970

Seller ID: 013749

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

[Originally published 1700]. Facsimile reprint, 12mo, pp 329, (7), very clean internally, full calf, raised bands on spine, rubbed and scuffed, several bits of calf are peeling on the lower cover. [Limited edition of 250 copies, this one being number 69.]
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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Plants : Flowers and Trees, Fruits and Vegetables, Ecology

By: Hepper, F. Nigel

Price: £27.50

Publisher: Leicester, Inter Varsity Press : 1992

Seller ID: 015737

ISBN-13: 9780851106434

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 192, very clean internally, green cloth with a very tiny bruise to the bottom edge of the upper cover, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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Gardening With Biblical Plants - a handbook for the home gardener

By: James, Wilma

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Nelson-Hall : 1984

Seller ID: 010911

ISBN-13: 9780830410095

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First reprint. Illustrated with line drawings by Arla Lippsmeyer, pp xviii, 252, a very good copy indeed in a slightly frayed dustwrapper. (A highly detailed work).
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Image for L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiana Opera, quae quidem extant omnia.....accesserunt Xysti Betuleii Augustini oia ac erudita commentario, nunc primium in luceni edita

L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiana Opera, quae quidem extant omnia.....accesserunt Xysti Betuleii Augustini oia ac erudita commentario, nunc primium in luceni edita

By: Lactantius

Price: £800.00

Publisher: Basle, Henricum Petri : 1563

Seller ID: 018107

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

Quarto, pp [22], 559, (21), the title page with an engraved woodut printer's device is slightly creased and is lightly marked and toned with two slight rust stains and the remains of two small labels - the one on the recto in red and partially removed, the second probably on the verso and completely removed but both have left the paper very thin at these points; otherwise the text is remarkably clean and without any major marks or stains. The date appears on the printer's colophon at the rear, and the verso has another version of the woodcut printer's device. Recently bound in full panelled sp...
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The Garden Inclosed - Being Certain Fair Ensamples and Miracles of St. Francis now translated for the first time from a XVth century Ms. of the Fioretti, preserved in the Riccardian Library at Florence

By: Mansfield, M.

Price: £8.90

Publisher: Florence, G. Cecchi & Son : 1911

Seller ID: 009992

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Nine plates, small 8vo, pp 67,(3), some foxing throughout, title page and chapter initials printed in red and black, unlettered boards (possibly hand-painted ?) slightly worn browned and bumped, cloth ties.
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English Mediaeval Monasteries 1066-1540 - A Summary

By: Midmer, Roy

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1979

Seller ID: 018632

ISBN-13: 9780434465354

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

A few illustrations and maps, octavo, pp vii, 385, a very bright copy indeed, virtually as new.
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Travelling with Thomas Story: the life and times of an eighteenth-century Quaker

By: Moore, Emily E.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Letchworth Garden City, Letchworth Printers Ltd : 1947

Seller ID: 017897

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxii, 320, traces of a name removed from front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean internally, red cloth with lower corner very slightly bruised otherwise very good, the dustwrapper is a bit worn, scuffed and frayed, but now enclosed in a removable clear cover. [Thomas Story (1670? - 1742) was an English Quaker convert and friend of William Penn, whose writings were very influential to Quakers. In 1698, he visited colonial America, lectured to Quakers there, and held positions in the Pennsylvania colony. In November 1698 Story sailed for Pennsylvania, where, at th...
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Song of the Sky

By: Murchie, Guy

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg : 1955

Seller ID: 018980

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with small line drawings, octavo, pp 408, the fore-edge and top edge a little foxed, the front endpaper a little age-toned and with a neat signature, otherwise clean internally, blue cloth very slightly worn and faded, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, but it is a little worn chipped and frayed. The dustwrapper is designed by the British modernist and surrealist painter John S. Tunnard. [Guy Murchie was an American writer about science and philosophy: aviation, astronomy, biology, and the meaning of life. He was, successively, a world traveler; a war correspondent; a photograph...
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The Monastic Grange in Medieval Europe - a reassessment

By: Platt, Colin

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan : 1969

Seller ID: 019368

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 272, violet cloth in good condition, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. A duplicate from a college library with a small library stamp on the verso of the title page, and a library stamp and label on the front endpaper, a sellotape mark on the rear endpaper. Still quite a good copy. Surprisingly scarce.
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A New Dictionary of Christian Theology

By: Richardson, Alan & Bowden, John

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, SCM Press : 1985

Seller ID: 014504

ISBN-13: 9780334022060

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Third impression, 1985. Large octavo, pp xviii, 614, blue cloth, a very good copy in a faded and very slightly worn dustwrapper. The book is slightly scented - possibly cosmetics ?
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The Jewish Challenge, or the vicissitudes of Judaism in the West

By: Seager, Frederic

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Montreal, Canada., Picard : 1996

Seller ID: 006841

ISBN-13: 9780968113608

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Paperback, 8vo, pp xviii, 277, the very slightest signs of wear, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE.
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