The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Together with The Psalter, or Psalms of David by [Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America] - 1806

Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1714. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. 436 numbered pages + 16 leaf index + 119 full page copperplate engravings. Marbled endpapers. Title page in black and red. All edges rouged. Pages and engravings are clean and bright. Bound in contemporary full calf with five gilt and raised bands and extensive decoration to the five compartments of the spine and a red spine label with gilt title to one compartment. Wear to the spine and to the edges, a little more to the top edge of the front board. Spine a little weak around page 202 with some loosening of a few leaves. An excellent copy of the self-contained second volume of Helyot's important work on the history, habits and dress of the religious and knightly orders up to the early 18th Century. Highly illustrated with 119 engravings depicting the habits of more than 100 of the most notable religious and knightly orders (male and female) up to that time, including St. Sepulcre, St.… Read More

Placentiae [Piacenza]: Ex officina Jo[hannem] Bazachi[um], 1586. Vellum. Very Good +. 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. [16] + 420 + [74] + 2 blank pages + [60] + 1 rfep. Contemporary ink inscriptions to title, last page and contemporary notes on rfep. Some pages misnumbered, scattered staining and small worming, mostly at margins. Page 324 with ink "S" in margin. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with expert recasing. A very good early copy of the proceedings of the Council of Trent and the Index of Forbidden Books with all the expected Protestant listings.

London: n.p., 1648 [but 1649]. First edition, early issue. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 4 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches. 2 ffep + [8] + 1 folding plate + 269 + [1] pages + 1 rfep. Marbled endpapers. Bibliographic notes on ffep (noting Wing E271, Madan 2, Almack 3 with repayed not Repaied). Close to Almack 1, but title with one oblong block (unique to Almack 4-6) and "mali" for "mala." Margins of title page lightly soiled, pages otherwise clean. Old repair to back of plate. Bound in full 18th Century calf with some light scuffing, mostly to edges, sympathetically rebacked with original spine relaid. Spine with extensive blindstamped decoration. Boards with double rolled borders and diamond decorations. ESTCR40157 A very nice copy of an early and unrecorded imprint of this important work regarding the martyrdom of King Charles I with a colorful history and a bewildering bibliography.

Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne]: Sumptibus Joannis Kreps & Hermanni Mylii, 1618. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 10 1/2 x 15 inches. Folio. 2 ffep + * (6 leaf quire) + ** (4 leaf quire) + A - Aaa (6 leaf quires) + Bbb1 + 1 rfep. Unobtrusive library plates of Bibl. Prov. Germ. Inferioris. and library stamp of Bibliotheca Con. SS Red. Mar. Hamicolt. Old repair to margin of ffep and engraved title page. Engraved frontispiece of author and engraved title. Dampstaining and age toning and a few small wormholes diminishing from front. A very few marginal notes in contemporary ink, and notes in old ink to ffep. Bound in 19th Century 3/4 calf with marbled boards. Front interior hinge reinforced with Japanese tissue. A very good clean copy of this Carthusian Lives of the Saints for January.

Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, for I[saiah] Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1794. Leather Bound. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. Collates as a-c (in 6s) + A-Ee (in 6s) + Ff (2 leaves). Lacks two leaves and lower 1/3 of another at P2-P4. This variant not recorded in Griffiths. See Griffiths 1794/11 for similar edition with a-b in 4s rather than a-c in 6s. Bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms in Metre with Hymns, Suited to the Feasts and Fasts of the Church, and Other Occasions of Public Worship. Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring for I[saiah] Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1793. 244 + [4] pages. Collates as A-U (in 6s) + W (4 leaves). Complete. Light toning and damp stain. 1 [of 2] marbled feps. A few quires slightly extended. Bound in contemporary full red leather with gilt designs to both covers and to spine which is cracked. Covers worn and rubbed. A scarce and unusually well preserved example of the first and only BCP printed for Isaiah Thomas, who Benjamin Franklin praised as "the American… Read More