Codex Sinaiticus New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript by McKendrick, Scot & David Parker & Amy Myshrall & Cillian O'Hogan - 2015

LONDON: Religious Tract Society , 1862 A series of biographies of religious reformers illustrated by colour printed plates of the towns they were most associated with - so for example Martin Luther and Wittenberg. With 8 colour printed plates by J M Kronheim and Co - using a colour printing process under license from George Baxter. In full leather prize binding - with a gilt crest of St Marylebone and All Souls Grammar School, in Union with Kings College on the front board; raised bands and gilt tooling to spine. The leather is a little worn at the edges and joints, the title label is missing and there is a small mark to the back board. The page edges are marbled and there are marbled endpapers. The front pastedown has a presentation plate to Charles Nott for 'Good conduct at Drill'. The colour plates are very finely printed and tissue guarded but there is some light brown spotting (we can send images of all plates on request). The plates are of: Prague, Zurich, Antwerp, Geneva, Spires,… Read More

First edition, London, 1719. xviii, 196, [2]. Rebound (about 150 years ago) in red half leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Bookplate of Library of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Massachusetts. No other library indicia. Quality of the paper is just amazing - very supple, minimal foxing. One ancient marginal spelling correction. Binding is sound. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Notes: An accounting by the parishes of how the Queen's money is being spent.

Toronto: Alfred Dredge. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1860. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows obvious wear. Brown cloth covered boards, corners and spine ends bumped. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. Some soiling to bottom edge of text pages. ; 331 pages .

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Capuchin Franciscan Institute of Philosophy and Theology. Very Good. 1999. Paperback. Text is clean. Cover shows some wear, with one crease. Printed on mulitple grades of paper. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. ; OCLC lists 2 institutional listings. ; Ethiopian Review of Cultures; Vol. 2 .

Containing the Old Testament and the New; Translated out of the Original Tongues; And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Two plates h.t. 10,8x7 cm. Sanborn & Carter, Portland, 1845.
--- Leather bound, gilt lettering on spine. Some wear to extremities. All edges gilt. Name and date written on first blank page. All other pages bright and clean.

Antwerp: apud Henricum et Cornelium Verdussen, 1719. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 2 only: [2], 791-1291 [sic 1293], [316] p.; 36 cm. Signatures: 3X8 3Y-5P6 5Q4 5R-6B6 5C-6L4 6M-7A6 7B8 (folio). Contemporary? full calf with eight spine compartments between raised bands. Remains of leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled volume number in third compartments and gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Paginated continuously with vol. 1. Printed in columns. Woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Error in signing: 5N1, 5N3, and 5N4 missigned V, V3, and V4. Engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper of St. Maries College, Rugby (St. Mary's College, in Rugby, England). A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: front joint split and back joint partially split, but boards are attached; leather is… Read More

Second impression. xxx+467 pp.+1 folding map h.t. 20,2x14,5 cm. The Story of the Nations / T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1899.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt (publishers binding). Some wear to extremities. B&W illustrations. Tight binding. Occasional light foxing. Unmarked.

Hardcover. Poor. Printed for P Chetwin and T Passinger, London, 1675; 4to, 170 x 215mm; pp [xvi], 441, [xvi] being the index; later half roan, marbled boards, binding very worn and both boards detached; book block firm and without loss but rather browned throughout and with some soiling on the title page, as shown in the image.

This Book is in Good Condition. The Dust Jacket (protected by a Dust Jacket Protector) has some Rubbing to the Surface and some Edgewear, including a 5/8" long Tear and several associated Creases at the Top Edge of the Front Cover but No Stains or Other Major Damage. The Hardcover Boards retain Sharp Corners with No Tears, Creases, Stains, or Any Major Damage. The Binding is Strong and Intact, though Very Slightly Cocked. The Interior is Clean and Unmarked with No Writing, Highlighting, or Underlining with the Exception of a Gift Inscription on the Front End Page and has No Tears, Creases, Stains, Mold, or Any Major Damage. The Page Edges have a Few Very Small, Very Light Stain Spots on the Fore Edge but No Remainder Mark, Stains, or Other Major Damage. Securely Packed and Promptly Shipped.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Cloth Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. V. 1. The Reformation in Germany from its Beginning to the Religious Peace of Augsburg. 1926 V. 2. The Reformation in Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and England, the Anabaptists and Socinian Movements, the Counter-reformation. 1925 Blue publisher's cloth with stamped gilt spine titles and blind-stamped series title on front boards. 8.25 inches tall; vii-527 ; vii-631 pages with publishers adverts following in each volume. Includes bibliographical references and indexes The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with presentation plate from The Hartford Theological Seminary on front paste-downs. Moderate shelf handling wear. A color folded map of the reformation and Counter-Reformation in sleeve in the rear paste-down of volume 2 measuring 19.5 by 17.5 inches. The map has even age-toning with darkening on one of the folds on the rear blank side. Topics: Anabaptists, Reformation,… Read More