Foxe's Book Of Martyrs by Edited by Dr A. Clarke - circa mid 1800's: Being A History Of The Persecution Of The Protestants;

London: Assigns of J. Sowle, 1738. Hardcover. Very Good +. "For the Testimony of a Good Conscience, From the Time of Their being first distinguished by that Name, Taken from Original Records, and other Authentick Accounts; Volume III From the year 1660 to the year 1666." [2], 546, xxviii, [10] p.: 1 leaf, folded; 20 cm. Signatures: B8(+x1) C-2H8 2I-2U4 [x]4 (8vo). Modern calf with original original gilt-tooled spine label. The folded leaf contains the table A Summary Account of the Sufferings in the Second and Third Volumes. Contains: An Alphabetical Index of the Names of the Sufferers in the Third Volume (pp. 479-546), and An Index Containing Some of the Principal Contest of this Third Volume (pp. 1-xxviii). Includes Errata on first page following p. xxviii, and publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. In Very Good+ Condition: very occasional soiling; folded leaf is intact and solid. A clean and tight copy of an important work in Quaker history.

240 Seiten. Gut erhaltenes Buch, Schnitt stockfleckig, Seiten alters- und papierbedingt etwas gebräunt

MEDIOLANI: APUD HAER. PETRI MART. LOCARN. & IO. BAPT., 1613. In 16. Dim. 16x11 cm. Pp. 16 (n.n.)+192+24 (n.n.). Prima edizione del 1613 di questa rarissima opera di Francesco Bernardino Ferrari (1577-1669), direttore della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Nell'opera Ferrari descrive le antiche lettere ecclesiastiche (utilità, divisione, canociche, comunicatorie, dimissioni, pacifiche, trattatorie, encicliche, decretali, sinodi, confessori, privati, saluto ecc...). L'opera è in un volume collazionato e completo. Bella marca editoriale al frontespizio. Nota manoscritta a penna al frontespizio. In ottime condizioni. Copertina in piena pergamena in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso; etichetta al piatto anteriore. Legatura in ottime condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in ottime condizioni con rare fioriture. First edition of 1613 of this very scarce work written by Francesco Bernardino Ferrari (1577-1669), director of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.… Read More

First and only edition. Chez Louis Janet Libraire, successor de son pere. nd [c.1800]. 12mo. 212pp. Engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, with tissue guards. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full red grained morocco, spine with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. Boards with double gilt border rules, foliar and floral embellishment, edge tooling, inner foliar curlicues. All edges gilt, (gilding a little faded in places), green silk ribbon bookmark. Small area of surface loss to lower board (see photo). Corner tips lightly rubbed. Occasional light spotting, mainly to free endpapers. Text and plates crisp and bright.
Guy Toussaint Julien Carron (1760-1821) born in Rennes. Educator, writer and philanthropist who founded a number of social and educational institutions: schools, libraries and pharmacies while in exile in England. Deported to Jersey (1792-1796), on the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Carron returned to France and became head of the Institut de Marie - Thérèse.
An interesting example… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by W. Young and J. M'Culloch, 1788. Hardcover. Good +. xii [sic], [3], 18-388 p.; 21 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "Gib's Contemplas." "I. A View of the Covenant of Works . . . II. A View of the Covenant of Grace . . . III. A View of the Absolute and Immediate Dependence of All Things on God . . . ." Early American Imprints, 1st Series (Evans), 21114. Error in paging: page x misnumbered xii. Subscribers names, pp. [385]-388, including Samuel Culbertson and James Culbertson of Letterkenny, Franklin County, Pa. Former owner Joseph Culbertson's name is written on endpapers, blank leaf preceding title page, blank page facing Appendix, and title page. Joseph Culbertson served as sheriff of the county from 1826 to 1829. Dickinson College Library stamp on front fixed endpaper; 5-digit number written at lower edge of first page of Preface;… Read More

London: Assigns of J. Sowle, 1738. Hardcover. Very Good +. "For the Testimony of a Good Conscience, From the Time of Their being first distinguished by that Name, Taken from Original Records, and other Authentick Accounts; Volume III From the year 1660 to the year 1666." [2], 546, xxviii, [10] p.: 1 leaf, folded; 20 cm. Signatures: B8(+x1) C-2H8 2I-2U4 [x]4 (8vo). Modern calf with original original gilt-tooled spine label. The folded leaf contains the table A Summary Account of the Sufferings in the Second and Third Volumes. Contains: An Alphabetical Index of the Names of the Sufferers in the Third Volume (pp. 479-546), and An Index Containing Some of the Principal Contest of this Third Volume (pp. 1-xxviii). Includes Errata on first page following p. xxviii, and publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. In Very Good+ Condition: very occasional soiling; folded leaf is intact and solid. A clean and tight copy of an important work in Quaker history.

240 Seiten. Gut erhaltenes Buch, Schnitt stockfleckig, Seiten alters- und papierbedingt etwas gebräunt

MEDIOLANI: APUD HAER. PETRI MART. LOCARN. & IO. BAPT., 1613. In 16. Dim. 16x11 cm. Pp. 16 (n.n.)+192+24 (n.n.). Prima edizione del 1613 di questa rarissima opera di Francesco Bernardino Ferrari (1577-1669), direttore della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Nell'opera Ferrari descrive le antiche lettere ecclesiastiche (utilità, divisione, canociche, comunicatorie, dimissioni, pacifiche, trattatorie, encicliche, decretali, sinodi, confessori, privati, saluto ecc...). L'opera è in un volume collazionato e completo. Bella marca editoriale al frontespizio. Nota manoscritta a penna al frontespizio. In ottime condizioni. Copertina in piena pergamena in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso; etichetta al piatto anteriore. Legatura in ottime condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in ottime condizioni con rare fioriture. First edition of 1613 of this very scarce work written by Francesco Bernardino Ferrari (1577-1669), director of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.… Read More

First and only edition. Chez Louis Janet Libraire, successor de son pere. nd [c.1800]. 12mo. 212pp. Engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, with tissue guards. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full red grained morocco, spine with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. Boards with double gilt border rules, foliar and floral embellishment, edge tooling, inner foliar curlicues. All edges gilt, (gilding a little faded in places), green silk ribbon bookmark. Small area of surface loss to lower board (see photo). Corner tips lightly rubbed. Occasional light spotting, mainly to free endpapers. Text and plates crisp and bright.
Guy Toussaint Julien Carron (1760-1821) born in Rennes. Educator, writer and philanthropist who founded a number of social and educational institutions: schools, libraries and pharmacies while in exile in England. Deported to Jersey (1792-1796), on the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Carron returned to France and became head of the Institut de Marie - Thérèse.
An interesting example… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by W. Young and J. M'Culloch, 1788. Hardcover. Good +. xii [sic], [3], 18-388 p.; 21 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "Gib's Contemplas." "I. A View of the Covenant of Works . . . II. A View of the Covenant of Grace . . . III. A View of the Absolute and Immediate Dependence of All Things on God . . . ." Early American Imprints, 1st Series (Evans), 21114. Error in paging: page x misnumbered xii. Subscribers names, pp. [385]-388, including Samuel Culbertson and James Culbertson of Letterkenny, Franklin County, Pa. Former owner Joseph Culbertson's name is written on endpapers, blank leaf preceding title page, blank page facing Appendix, and title page. Joseph Culbertson served as sheriff of the county from 1826 to 1829. Dickinson College Library stamp on front fixed endpaper; 5-digit number written at lower edge of first page of Preface;… Read More