HOLY BIBLE: CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: TOGETHER WITH THE APOCRYPHA (1803 Philadelphia) -

Lugduni: Jacob & Peter Prost Brothers 1st first edition, 1637. Hardcover. Very Good. Large copperplate printers mark on Titlepage + 2 emblematic woodcuts (repeats) + foliated and tail pieces.. Folio contemporary blindstamped pig with 2 working clasps with central emblem within floriated concentric panels on 5 raised bands beveled wooden boards old paper titling label bands painted black (old if not even original) (some rubbing/staining but in very good condition) Titlepages in red and black +[14pp] =foreword & approbations 492pp +[26pp] The book is in such good state that aside from neat ownership Capucinorum Tubij, in which monastary it seems to have been for a long time having an early hand written, with a later rubber stamp of the same and also a printed strip tipped to below imprint date for the same, there are no other marks. *One of Lapide's commentaries on the books of the Old Testament. Only St.Paul & Pentateuch were published while he was still in Belgium, he was then called to Rome where… Read More

NY: New York Protestant Episcopal Press, 1836. Finely bound original 1836 New York Protestant Episcopal Press issue. Only 2 copies in OCLC. 4to., 9" x 11" x 2." 478, 132, 125 [6] pp. Full brown leather with embossed covers and lightly raised bands, gilt decorative spine and cover rules, marbled edges. Trinity Church, Wolcottville, gilt stamped on cover. Mostly clean and bright, binding straight and tight. Front inner hinge split, mild foxing/creasing to endpapers, some mothing into the edges, moisture stain along top margin of the Hymns, few page corners chipped - not affecting text, some scuffing/rubbing to the leather. Good plus overall, with textblock very good. Very scarce.. 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

1673 BIBLE Theodore Beza Huguenot Calvin New Testament Protestant Reformation

Theodore Beza was one of the most prolific French Protestants during the Reformation. In 1565, Beza first issued an edition of the Greek New Testament translated into the Vulgate. His biblical translations were extremely important and popular throughout Europe, especially among Calvinists and helped shape many theological scholars who came after him.

This 1673 Latin edition of Beza's New Testament was published in Amsterdam by Blaeu – a small pocket edition.
Item number: #21286
Price: $499
Holy Bible
Novvm Testamentvm Domini nostri Iesv Christi
Amstelaedami: Blaeu Societatis, 1673.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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408
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References: not in Darlow & Moule
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Language: Latin
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~4.5in X 2.5in (11.5cm x 6.5cm)
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1679 Imitation of Christ Thomas a Kempis Elzevier Dutch Rosweyde Bible Classic

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis's most famous and important work has, for centuries, been The Imitation of Christ. This important, late 17th-century Elzevier printing contains a life of Thomas a Kempis by Heribert Rosweyde, a Dutch hagiographer.
Item number: #21352
Price: $499
KEMPIS, Thomas a
Th. à Kempis canonici regularis Ordin. S. August. De imitatione Christi libri quatuor
Amstelodami: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1679.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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261, [1]
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Includes engraved title page
· References: Willems 1232
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.25in X 3in (13.5cm x 8cm)
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1771 Heidelberg Catechism Huguenot CALVINISM Basel Swiss Bible Reformed Theology
A rare explanation and commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, published in 1771 in Basel. The Heidelberg Catechism was a Protestant treatise written in the 16th-century as a way to supplement teaching Reformed Christianity, Calvinistic doctrine. It outlines the fall of man, redemption of sin, justification of faith, and gratitude to be shown for that forgiveness. Scripture references are used throughout, along with important Christian sacraments and ceremonies.
Item number: #21335
Price: $499
STAHELIN, Christoph
Catechetischer Hauss-Schatz, oder, Erklärung des Heidelbergischen Catechismi durch Frag und Antwort…
Basel: Emanuel Thurneysen, 1771.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[32], 527, [1]; 416
· Language: German
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Two clasps
· Size: ~7.5in X 4.75in (19cm x 12cm)
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NY: New York Protestant Episcopal Press, 1836. Finely bound original 1836 New York Protestant Episcopal Press issue. Only 2 copies in OCLC. 4to., 9" x 11" x 2." 478, 132, 125 [6] pp. Full brown leather with embossed covers and lightly raised bands, gilt decorative spine and cover rules, marbled edges. Trinity Church, Wolcottville, gilt stamped on cover. Mostly clean and bright, binding straight and tight. Front inner hinge split, mild foxing/creasing to endpapers, some mothing into the edges, moisture stain along top margin of the Hymns, few page corners chipped - not affecting text, some scuffing/rubbing to the leather. Good plus overall, with textblock very good. Very scarce.. 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1730. Octavo. 17, 1120, 320. Very rare. Only two recorded copies of the Morl edition (Erlangen, Nuremberg); none on OCLC. Second corrected edition. Introduction by Gustav Philipp Morl (1673-1750), Doring notes in The Learned Theologians of Germany in the 18th and 19th Centuries was important both for his studies in Descartes as well as Confessional Theology. In the four page introduction he notes that Nuremberg is fortunate in this time. There is a pastedown of showing Jesus examining the 10 Commandments (though the fifth apparently is missing from the tables) and below is a panorama of the city. The other endpaper has a full page of Professor Morl (the same as in the NYPL digital collection of famous personages). The following preliminaries list the entire Augsburg Confession (it was the 200 anniversary of its first appearance). A very nice copy in original full leather binding with only a small 1/2" tear at bottom of spine.. Both title pages of Old and New Testament… Read More

1620 Portuguese Jesuit BIBLE Septuagint Commentary Manuel de Sa Latin Vellum

Manuel de Sa was a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit preacher who is remembered primarily for two works – 'Elements of the Gospels' and 'Observations on the Holy Scriptures'. De Sa annotated the Bible and provided his own notes and commentary – a Latin edition of the Bible that proved to be popular throughout the 17th-century.

Item number: #14747
Price: $599
DE SA, Manuel
Notationes in totam Scripturam Sacram : quibus omnia fere loca difficilia breuissime explicantur tum variæ ex Hebræo, Chaldæo & Græco lectiones indicantur : opus omnibus Scripturæ studiosis vtilissimum
Coloniæ : Apud Ioannem Kinchium ..., 1620.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [4], 546, [2]
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Language: Latin
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Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
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Size: ~9.75in X 7.5in (24.5cm x 19cm)
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1734 Catholic ART & Bible Prayers of Five Sorrowful JESUS Mysteries Crucifixion

"Devout Exercises of the Five Sorrowful Mysteries" is a fine, 18th-century pocket Catholic prayer book. Published in Palermo, this small book contains prayers and meditations to be prayed on 'sorrowful or painful mysteries' of Christ including:
· Agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
· Scourging or flagellation of Jesus
· Crowning Jesus with crown of thorns
· Jesus carrying the cross
· Crucifixion and death of Jesus

Note the full-page engravings of this work, including illustrations of each of the 'pains' of Jesus.

Item number: #24790
Price: $499

Chiesa di Palermo

Esercizio divoto delli cinque mistrerii dolorosa della passione di gesu crocifisso

In Palermo: per Stef. Amato, 1734.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 142
o 6 engravings
· Language: Italian
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~4.25in X 3in (10.5cm x… Read More

1770 German BIBLE New Testament Martin Luther + Commentary Speyer Vellum Binding

A rare Martin Luther German Holy Bible printed in Speyer, Germany. This complete New Testament includes Luther's thorough and extensive commentary. Luther Bibles have always maintained their popularity throughout the centuries both in German and non-German speaking areas, and this Philadelphia-printed German edition is quite rare and desirable!

Item number: #24778
Price: $499

LUTHER, Marin [Holy Bible transl.]

Zweyter Band des Neuen Testaments Unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi

Speyer: Gedruckt und verlegts Ludwig Bernhard Friederich Gegel, 1770.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o "New Testament" – 1375, [1]
o "Register" – 440
o "Spurch-Register" – 119, [1]
· References: not in Darlow & Moule
· Provenance: Handwritten – Harry W. Chapman
· Language: German
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
· Size: ~7.25in X 5in (18.5cm x 12.5cm)

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