The Life of Justification Opened. Or, a Treatise Grounded Upon Gal. 2.II. Wherein the Orthodox Doctrine of Justification By Faith, & Imputation of Christ's Righteousness, is Clearly Expounded... by Brown [Broun], John, of Wamfrey (1610?-1679) - 1695

Bingii ad Rhenum: G. C. Voigt, 1791. First quarto edition. Editio omnium novissima, notis et animadversionibus, quoad historiam et dissertationem [sic] Novi Testamenti, aucta ad castigationem et illustrationem opinionum quorumdam [sic] auctoris, opera et studio Constantini Roncaglia ... Quibus accedunt, praeter animadversiones a P. Joanne Dominico Mansi ... in 2. Lucensi editione inserta [sic], aliae insuper ejusdem auctoris noviter elucubratae. Full mottle calf, raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Spines and boards rubbed and scuffed, worn at extremities, heads and heels of a few volumes chipped, calf occasionally darkened or brittle mainly on spines, library call numbers to lower compartments mostly removed, seminary book plate to front pastedowns, occasional bookseller's ticket, bindings tight, some scattered foxing otherwise leaves clean and unmarked. A valuable set.. Sm. 4to.(25 cm). Noel Alexandre, or Alexander Natalis (1639-1724), was a… Read More

London: W. Owen, in Fleet-Street; J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, 1772. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp [6], xix, [5], 477. With 12 copper engraved plates and a fold-out frontispiece illustration of the Devitza Monastary near St. Petersburg - all by P. Mazell. The title page contains a vignette depicting the medal of Catherine II. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild specks of marginal foxing; faint library stamp placed in upper margin of title page. Bound in Modern half dark brown morocco with marbled boards and end papers. J.G. King [1731-1787] was Chaplain to the English Factory at St. Petersburg. He spent much time studying and observing Russian Orthodox practices. His work offers detailed descriptions and select translations of the various rituals, services and liturgies belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church. [ESTC T95407; Lewine, p.262; Brunet III, 661; Graesse IV, p.18; Lowndes p.1274]

Basel: Johann Froben, 1521. Hardcover. See Description. Folio. ff. [444] plus 6 extra leaves in this copy as signature G is repeated. Colophon: Basileae per Ioannem Frobeniu, Mense Maio. Anno M.D.XXI. Title page contains decorative woodcut border with 10 figures including images symbolizing the four evangelists, Peter, Paul and four early Bishops. Printer’s device also on title page and on verso of final leaf. The introductions to both part I and part II contain woodcut initials. The title to the second part reads: "Concordantiae partium sive dictionum indeclinabilium totius Bibliae." The main text is in 3 columns per page. Bound in period blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards - attractively age-toned. Metal corner pieces are present; clasps are lacking. Title page contains three tiny and unobtrusive worm holes. There is also an area of abrasion next to the printed title proper which affects a tiny area on the inner edge of the woodcut border. Small holes present in upper inner… Read More

Basle: Henricum Petri, 1563. 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 speckled calf, with simple gilt decoration, the spine with plain raised bands and a morocco label, plain endpapers. RARE. [Lucius Caecilius Firmianus signo Lactantius (c. 250 - c. 325) was an early North African Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to… Read More

Bath, England: Richard Cruttwell, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ernest Longfellow (his son). Sacra Privata - The Private Meditations and Prayers of the Right Reverend Thomas Wilson, D.D." A FORE-EDGE PAINTED book printed in Bath, England by Richard Cruttwell in 1818 and bound in gilt-stamped green leather, with six compartments on the spine, gilt dentelles on the leather turn-ins, all edges gilt. The fore-edge is finely painted, and depicts a river in the Holy Land. Thomas Wilson was Bishop of Sodor and Man between 1697 and 1755. There is a gilt-stamped green leather "bookplate" on the inside cover showing Jane Rowley 1818. This may be Jane Fuller Rowley (1736-1819) of Connecticut. Please view the photographs. CONDITION: The fore-edge painting is crisp and beautiful. Prior bookseller's penciled price of $250 on inner front end-paper, foxing to title page & front end-papers but not elsewhere. Overall very good condition. DIMENSIONS:… 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.

Seville: Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada, 1836. RARE. No date title pages, dated 1836 in Licencia.. Two volumes bound in contemporary sponged calf, floral gilt backs, edges dyed red, marbled end papers, ribbon markers. Very Good, dampstain to margin, not affecting text, final 20 pp. Tome I, end papers soiled, light wear at edges, some old pencil notations at end pages. Interior pages clean and bright. . Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

1736 BIBLE & BANNED Commentary Jansenism Catholic 8v Pasquier Quesnel French
Pasquier Quesnel was a 17th-century French Jansenist best-remembered for his commentary on the New Testament. This commentary was written to push Jansenist theology and doctrine which, unfortunately, seemed to form numerous phrases that were considered heretical by the Catholic Church. This French edition of the New Testament includes Quesnel's commentary, published in eight tomes.
Item number: #18461
Price: $1500
QUESNEL, Pasquier [edit.]
Le Nouveau Testament en françois, avec des reflexions morales sur chaque verset, pour en rendre la lecture plus utile, & la meditation plus aisée
A Amsterdam, aux dépens de Joseph Nicolai. 1736.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages – 8 volumes
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Vol. I – Matthew
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Vol. II – Mark
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Vol. III – Luke
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Vol. IV – John
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Vol. V – Acts
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Vol. VI – Romans-Corinthians
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Vol. VII – Galations-Philemon
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Vol. VIII – Hebrew-Revalation
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[London : s.n.],, 1695. Title page continues: "him whom the Father sanctified and sent, raised from the dead and exalted, and disproving the doctrine of three almighty, real, subsisting persons, minds, or spirits : giving also an account of the nominal Trinity, that is, three modes, subsistences, or somewhats in God, called by schoolmen Persons, and of the judgement of the Fathers and Catholick Church for the first 150 years : of which tracts the following pages give the titles." The titles are as follows : "Considerations on the doctrine of the trinity.; Animadversions on a postscript to the defence of Dr. Sherlock against the calm discours of the sober enquirer.; Letter to the reverend the clergy of both universities, concerning the Trinity and the Athanasian creed.; Reflections on the XXVII propositions touching the doctrine of the Trinity.; Reply to the second defense of the XXVIII propositions said to be wrote in answer to a Socinian manuscript.; Exceptions of Mr. Edwards, in his… Read More

(Innsbruck, Austria): Oeniponti : Excudebat Daniel Agricola,, 1609. [28], 633, [13] pages : music. Title page and text In red and black; head- and tail-pieces; initials; episcopal coat of arms of Christoph Andreas von Spaur (verso of title-leaf); errata on recto of final leaf./ Music is in neumatic notation. Text is primarily in Latin but includes texts in German, which are mostly German translations of Latin text, preceding it. Very Good Minus, in original intricately blind embossed leather, leather at spine missing, clasps missing, lacking the half-title and front blank end page, a few pages with tears, p. 156 with loss of paper at bottom margin and p.157 with loss affecting bottom 3 lines of text, last blank end page missing bottom 2" and with contemporary owners name and writing in Latin. Internally clean and bright. Beautifully presented in custom 20th c. clamshell case in red and gray cloth and gilt lettering with prior owner name in gilt, that of John H. Planer, noted music professor at… Read More