Mormonism Unveiled Or the Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop John D. Lee by Lee, John D - 1877

1681. MOYENS SURS & HONESTES POUR LA CONVERSION DE TOUS LES HERETIQUES, et Avis et Expediens salutaires pour la Reformation de l'Eglise. Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1681. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [xl]330[2]249[3]pp. First edition. A thoughtful and lengthy argument that all that is evil in the Church, such as the Inquisition, simony, and clerical misbehaviour, comes from the Papacy and the Cardinals, the solution being to abolish the Papacy, returning the Church to its original and scriptural simplicity. According to the "Avertisement" at the end, the manuscript was unfinished due to the ill-health of the anonymous author, an "homme de qualite et scavant." Pierre Marteau is a fictitious publishing house, never located in Cologne or anywhere else, providing a name under which French, German, and Dutch printers could disseminate controversial or pornographic books from 1660 to the late 18th century. Other Pierre Marteau titles tend to be anticlerical, politically inflammatory or scandalous. (Brunet:… Read More

1660 Capuchin Devotional by Reims True Perfection of Life Spiritual Exercises
Jean-François de Reims was a 17th-century Capuchin monk whose theological treatises are relatively unknown today. And while his works are not regularly referenced, they do offer value to the development of spiritual devotion in 17th-century Catholic Europe. "The True Perfection of this Life" is one of Reims best works – a book of spiritual exercises, devotions, and lessons.
Item number: #14246
Price: $599
REIMS, Jean-Francois de
La vraye perfection de cette vie dans l'exercice de la presence de Dieu. Livre qui enseigne methodiquement et solidement les principales pratiques de devotion, et tous les degrez de la vie interieure depuis son commencement jusques à sa fin dans cét exercice de la presence de Dieu
Paris : Neuve N. Buon, 1660.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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Vol. I – [28], 431, [7]
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Vol. II – [16], 510, [8]
· Language: French
· Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
·… Read More

1684 Spanish Louis of Granada Catechism Catholic Council Trent + 1666 Memorial

Louis of Granada was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican friar and preacher. Best known for his homilies and devotionals, Granada wrote an important edition of the 1566 Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent. Granada edited and translated the Catechism to make it more understandable for Spanish readers. Years later, the work was translated into French and published throughout the French speaking world.
This 1684 edition was translated by Girard and published in Paris in four volumes. This set features a 1666 printing of Granada's "Additions to Memorial of a Christian Life" – a supplement to his earlier 'Christian Life'. This work was written to instruct on proper and moral living under the Christian church, with devotions and prayers.
Item number: #14759
Price: $750
GRENADE, Louis de
Le catéchisme ou introduction au symbole de la foy, où il est traité des excellences de la religion chrestienne & de ses principaux… Read More

1814 1st ed Salisbury Lichfield Cathedral Church Illustrated Church of England Britton

A rare 1814 printing of an historical account of the Cathedral at Salisbury by John Britton. This richly illustrated work features 48 impressive, full-page engravings depicting various views of the cathedral church, floor plans, architecture, archways, statues, and relics. This example is bound with a similar treatise of the Cathedral at Lichfield, 1820, which also includes full-page views.
Item number: #13953
Price: $599
BRITTON, John
The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury; illustrated with a series of engravings, of views, elevations, plans, and details of that edifice: also etchings of the ancient monuments and sculpture
London: Longman & Co., 1814, 1820.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1
o 'Salisbury' – viii, 113, [1]
32 engraved plates
o 'Lichfield' – 74
16 engraved plates
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight &… Read More

1718 1ed MONASTIC & Military Religious Orders Franciscan Monks Saints Helyot

Hippolyte Helyot was a 17th-century Franciscan friar best known for his book on the history of religious and monastic orders. 'History of Religious and Military Monastic Orders'
was published in numerous volumes beginning in 1714 and formed one of the best works to date concerning the history of religious orders and is illustrated with impressive, full-page engravings of monks, nuns, and Catholic saints.
includes 87 engravings throughout!
Item number: #14704
Price: $750
HEYLOT, Hippolyte
Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires et des congregations seculieres [...], avec des figures qui representent tous les differens habillemens de ces ordres et de ces congregations, tome cinquiéme
Paris : chez Nicolas Gosselin, 1718. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages;
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[6], 488, [20]
o 87 engraved plates
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
·… Read More

Exeter: William Robberts, Broadgate, 1861. "Despite the antiquity of this book it is still regarded as probably the most complete work on the subject." Blue blind embossed decoration to bds and Gilt spine title, original owners name to first blank Reginald Porter and dated March 1861 with purchase receipt for £1 laid in. pp xiii 503 with 15 Plates. CONDITION Mild rubbing to edges, cnrs canted, spine head and heel just starting, gutter crack to paper both ends, mull slightly loose though not worn, light foxed to plates due to paper type. Contemporary newpaper article pasted to inside rear listing contents of Churches and Cathedrals in Exeter. A few small tidy notations to margins mostly in pencil. Bright and crisp copy. Overweight. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Portland, Maine: Sanborn & Carter. Very Good+. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean dark brown cloth, front cover decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Old Portland, Maine imprint. First Edition. Faint inscription on free front endpaper, dated August 3,1861. Pages very lightly foxed. Religion; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 72 pages .

Bruxelles: Johannis Mommartius, 1656 A good copy of the second edition of this extremely rare work. First printed in Venice in 1652. Baldassare Bonifacio was a professor among many other talents and this work is a cabinet of curiosities - gathering a wide range of stories and recollections - including tales from classical antiquity of women who had serpent lovers. In full leather binding with raised bands and gilt decoration to the spine and tooling to the boards. It has had an old leather repair relaying the tooled front board onto plain leather. It is clean, showing wear to top and bottom of spine and edges and with a broken front hinge and weak rear hinge, although the board is still attached. The contents are in superb condition given the age of the book. There is a biographical note written in ink in english on a preliminary and 2-3 signs of previous ownershiip. Some of the ink has run a little. With black and white illustrated title page; page of names - D Carolo Hovyne, Equiti Aurato;… Read More

NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. Signed hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. 8vo., xi+306pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles and designs. Inscribed by Niebuhr on the half title: "to Susan & Bob on their wedding day, Best wishes, Reinhold Niebuhr". Some rubbing to the gilt titles, offsetting from NY Times Book Review clipping on Niebuhr laid in, else very good, clean, bright in very good dust jacket with a small chip off the rear panel and wear at the extremities. . Signed by Author. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1927. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition, third printing as noted on dust jacket. aka An Outline of Philosophy. The text block is solid, clean and square. Endpapers are clear of markings with NO previous owner's signature. Spine is stiff and appears unread, boards rigid and tips pointed.Just a bit of tanning on the endpapers. It is a beautiful copy! The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has about a one inch loss at the upper right hand corner of the front cover with a though bit of shelf wear and tiny loss here and there on edges and at center cover and spine ends and at tips. The reason this is a third printing is that the dust jacket cover says "Third Printing...15,000." Looks dashing in its shiny new plastic cover. .