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(London, Macmillan and Co, 1900). 8vo; brown boards, a little rubbed; pp. xlviii + 278 + advertisments; maps; names of previous owners on front free endpaper; some annotations in text; a little browning. Good condition. .

(Potchefstroom, Uitgewery Lochwalt, 1983). Original wraps, pp. (vi) + vii + 258. Perfect-bound. .

(Uhldingen: Stephanus Edition, 1987) 3921213800. 190 x 106 mm; saddle-stitched laminated card wrappers; pp. 36; photographs. Very good condition. German text. A report on a fact-finding trip to atheistic Albania by a representative of the HMK organisation, the objective of which is to assist persecuted members of Christendom. It is claimed that the author found the "Children of Abraham". .

(Gütersloh, Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1962). Dustwrapper, a little soiled, green cloth, pp. 126. Some pen markings throughout. Bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. 'Seit einigen jahrzhnten sind in Afrika und Südostasien chiliastisch-messianische Bewegungen zu beobachten, die im Selbstbewußtstein der Beteiligten und in ihrer Gesellschaft erhebliche Veränderungen hervorriefen. Gewöhnlich erwarten ihre Vertreter ein paradiesisches Reich ohne Arbeit, Entbehrung und Abhängigkeit, ohne Krankheit, Leid und Tod. ...' .

(Cape Town: Salesian Institute, 1949). 185 x 125 mm; side-stitched wrappers; pp. 497 + (i); photographs; folding statistical tables; some adverts. Wrappers partially sunned and a little worn; backstrip worn at extremities, with penned date; some foxing and browning. Includes an Alphabetical List of Clergy and an Index of Principal Mission Stations. .

(Cape Town: Salesian Institute, 1953). 185 x 128 mm; wrappers; pp. 581 + (iii); photographs; folding statistical tables; some adverts. Spine cocked; wrappers partially detached, sunned and slightly worn; a little foxing and browning. Includes an Alphabetical List of Clergy and an Index of Parishes and Mission Stations. .

(Cape Town: Salesian Institute, 1945). 180 x 120 mm; side-stitched wrappers; pp. 362; photograph; folding statistical tables; some adverts. Wrappers detached and fractured; some foxing and browning. Includes an Alphabetical List of Clergy and an Index of Principal Mission Stations. .

(London: Geoffrey Bles, 1943). 12mo; original orange cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. 64. Cloth somewhat worn, and sunned on spine; library codes and small ink stamps; remnant of label to front free endpaper; archival tape reinforcing to gutter between half-title leaf and title leaf. Binding slack. Fair. These musings made a deep impression upon a generation of religious people in England. .

(London, Hamish Hamilton, 1989). Laminated pictorial dustwrapper, pp. (vii) + 232. On Saturday, 5 December, three days after the publication of the 1987 edition of Crockford's Clerical directory, Dr. Gareth Bennett took his own life. It was the climax of an extraordinary press campaign to discover the anonymous author of the Crockford's Preface, which had contained a severe analysis of the current state of the Anglican Church, and an indictment of its leadership. The press hysteria had been fed by a series of pronouncements on the author's character issued by senior clergy.' .

(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1968) 0310229219. Title page reads in full: "Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments, By Alexander Cruden, A.M. Edited By A. D. Adams, M. A., C. H. Irwin, M.A., D.D., S. A. Waters. Notes and Biblical Proper Names Under One Alphabetical Arrangement. Plus a List of Proper Names with a Foreword by Dr. Walter L. Wilson." 202 x 135 mm; wrappers; pp. (xii) + 803. Wrappers slightly rubbed, with crease to bottom fore-corner of lower wrapper. Good to very good condition. 'This is the most complete and accurate edition of Cruden's masterpiece ever published. It includes more than 200,000 references to both the King James Version and the Revised Version, listing Scriptural proper names and the full content of this masterly work in one convenient alphabetical arrangement. Also included is an index to all the key words of the Bible which will help you to find Scripture verses and related verses which you seek. Any thought or Scripture… Read More

(Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1934). 205 x 150 mm; printed card wrappers; pp. 173 + (ii). Very good condition. Dutch text. Commentary on Paul's letters to the Thessalonians. .

(Kassel: J. G. Oncken, 1928). 16mo; original blue cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; tinted top edge; pp. 419 + (i). Light wear to extremities of cloth; pages browned; a little underlining. Good condition. German text. Influential Weimar-era work by the German Baptist minister and social reformer. .

(Konstanz: Christliche Verlagsanstalt , 1953). 183 x 122 mm; pictorial card wrappers; pp. 64. Wrappers slightly soiled and rubbed; earlier owner's name signed on title page; moderate foxing. Good. German text. The life of Evan von Tiele-Winckler (1866-1930), social reformer and founder of a charitable sisterhood, who was commonly referred to as "Mother Eve". .

(Paris: Librairie de Ch. Meyrueis, 1867). 8vo; half vellum and marbled boards, lettered in black on spine; pp. 458 + (i). Boards rubbed; earlier owner's name signed on title page; trace of damp-stain to fore-edge of some leaves; moderate foxing throughout. French text. Good condition. Treatise on the Letter to the Ephesians. The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica states that "Monod was undoubtedly the foremost Protestant preacher of 19th-century France." .

(London: Macmillan, 1914). Third edition. Demy 8vo; original green cloth with gilt "golden bough" device to upper cover, and spine lettered in gilt; pp. xiv + 453, incl. index. Light wear and some stippling to cloth; a little foxing to endpapers and some spotting to edges; several pages unopened. Good to very good condition. "The aspect of the subject with which we are here chiefly concerned is the use of the Dying God as a scapegoat to free his worshippers from the troubles of all sorts with which life on earth is beset. I have sought to trace this curious usage to its origin, to decompose the idea of the Divine Scapegoat into the elements out of which it appears to be compounded. If I am right, the idea resolves itself into a simple confusion between the material and the immaterial, between the real possibility of transferring a physical load to other shoulders and the supposed possibility of transferring our bodily and mental ailments to another who will bear them for us."… Read More

(Pietermaritzburg: the author, no date c. 1954). 184 x 123 mm; original cream card wrappers; pp. 64. Wrappers a bit browned. "These lectures were delivered to the students of the Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa in April 1954. They are printed in response to demands for permanent copies. The Greek words are written in English characters." Contents: The Language of the New Testament; The Gospel in Aorist Past Tenses; The Gospel in Perfect Tenses; The Gospel in Present and Future Tenses; The Gospel in Prepositions; The Gospel in First Personal Pronouns; The Gospel in Adverbs. .

(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953). 8vo; original maroon boards; no dustwrapper; pp. lxviii + 383, incl. index. Boards very slightly bumped and discoloured; earlier owners' inscription and label to front free endpaper; occasional minor foxing. Good to very good condition. .

(Roodepoort: Baanbreker Uitgewers, no date). 180 x 120 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; pp. (i) + 15. Wrappers slightly rubbed. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. This booklet reflects the South African paranoia regarding the "Rooi Gevaar" of communism during the 1960s and 1970s, and is written by a prominent member of the Cape synod of the Dutch Reformed Church, styled an authority on the teachings and methods of communists. .

(Potchefstroom: Instituut vir die Bevordering van die Calvinisme, Potchefstroomse Universiteit, 1974) 0869901796. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 376. Short, closed tear to top edge of dustwrapper's lower panel; earlier owner's hand-stamp to front free endpaper; some tape stains to endpapers and dustwrapper flaps, ghosting through to outermost leaves. Very good condition. Afrikaans text. "Van 1969 af tot op die huidige dag het die kenmerk van die tydsgees waarmee die wêreld gekonfronteer is, al duideliker geword. Hierdie gees kan aangemerk word as die gees van revolusie. Die huidige geslag is besig met eietydse antwoorde op die ontelbare vrae wat op hulle afstorm. Dit blyk dat tradisionele antwoorde nie meer bevredig nie. Losgeskeur van die verlede, lewende net vir die hede, baan die moderne mens vir homself 'n pad met gebruikmaking van een gemeenskaplike metode - dié van die revolusie. Dit geld nie net verskeie… Read More

(Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1947). 8vo; original light brown cloth, lettered in black on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 158, incl. index; few plates. Corners of boards lightly rubbed, with bump to top fore-corner of upper board; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. An attempt at a balanced account of the life of Gray, whose tenure is unfortunately linked with the deposition of Colenso as Bishop of Natal. .