Search Results: Theology from Dungeness Books

Summary: London: Adam Islip, Felix Kingston, and Robert Young, 1632. Folio (14 x 9.5 in). A near-complete set of Foxe's famous Acts and Monuments also knows as the Book of Martyrs. The work documents the martyrdom of all of history's recorded saints from the first century through the Reformation period with abundant and gruesome illustrations. This seventh edition is the first issued in three-volumes and printed in black letter. Description: Vol. 1: full-page engraved title; Kalendar (6 pp.); Ad Dominum (3 pp.); Epistle Dedicatory (3 pp.); Ad Doctum Lectorem (3 pp.); To the True and Faithful Congregation (1 p.); A Chronologie (76 pp.); Acts and Monuments (1024 pp.); Vol. 2: Acts and Monuments (788 pp.); Vol. 3: Acts and Monuments (1030 pp.); A Continuation of the Histories of Forreine Martyrs (108 pp.) with title page (1631); A Table of All Principal Persons (94 pp.). Vol. 1 contains 36 woodcuts with the engraved title page (1632), a full-page plate of The Poisoning of King John (inserted after Ee4).… Read More

DESCRIPTION
[Schut, Pieter Hednrik]. Amsterdam: for Nicolai Visscher [Nicolaus Visscher], [ca. 1700]. folio (13 x 8.75 in.). 3 parts in one volume. [8],71,[1],121,[1]pp. Over 275 copper engravings by Matthaeus Merian.
This history of Biblical events is printed in 5 languages (Dutch, German, Latin, English and, French). Extensively illustrated with engraved Biblical scenes.
This scarce Print Bible is also called the Schutbijbel because of the name of the engraver of the prints, Pieter Hendrik Schut (1619-1662). Schut also added his own designs to the Merian prints. Each title print is in Latin, Dutch, German, English, and French. The Sacred Histories of the Old and New Testament, represented by very artificial figures. Preface in four languages. There is also a caption in rhyme in these five languages under each engraving. Complete copy with 277 engravings by Pieter Schut after the prints of Mattheus Merian.
BINDING
Professionally rebacked and restored with new plain endpapers in dark calf. Spine… Read More

London: Richard Field, 1616. 4to (8 x 5.75 in).
Collation
Galatians: Collates complete [4], 296 ff.Psalms: Lacking title (A1). A-V^4, X^2.
Binding
Text in black letter. Bound in a more recent red paneled calf binding with six raised bands. The text Galatians Psalms Luther 1616 tooled in gilt in compartments. Condition: Lightly rubbed. Text block dyed in red with text containing wide margins. A few ex-library stamps to the text of both commentaries. Minor marks, light blemishes or reading wear. A lovely, solid copy of a scarce and valuable book.
Note
Galatians is well known as Luther's favorite book: the subject of his lectures in 1519 and again in 1523. Luther has stated: The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock… It is my Katherine [i.e. Luther s wife]. The significance of this commentary upon Protestantism is difficult to overstate. Over and above all of Luther s writings it represents the crux of justification by faith alone in the strongest and clearest sense.

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, n.d. (19th cent.). 4to. [4], 787, [3] pp. with numerous full-page steel engravings. Text in two column Roman type within ruled border. Bound in period half-calf with gilt rolls to covers and gilt rules to spine. Five raised bands and a red morocco label with "Life of Christ" lettered in gilt. Section of leaves/plates near front detached and frayed. Occasional staining. A fair copy.

History of the Puritans Or Protestant Nonconformists; From the Reformation in 1517 to the Revolution in 1688; Comprising an Account of their Principles; Their attempts for a farther Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; And the Lives and Characters of their most considerable Divines by Daniel Neal, M.A.
New York: Harper & Harper, 1843. 2 vols. in 8vo. [2],xxviii,30-534; [2],564,[4] pp. with nine portraits on steel. Half-calf. Frequent foxing with ex-library stamp to front endpaper. Library stamp on title page of volume 1. Top joint cracked on first volume. A good set.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1902. 12mo. xvi,, 377pp. Finely bound in full polished calf, a prize binding. Spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling to compartments. Marbled edges and endpapers.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, W.C.E. Newbolt and Darwell Stone saw a surplus of complex academic theology coming out of universities and cathedrals, but a lack of channels that could get this learning into the hands of the devout laypeople who could put it into practice. They organized the Oxford Library of Practical Theology and this volume is but one of a total of twenty-two in the series. The goal was to convert complex early-twentieth-century academic theology into digestible volumes, drawing on the brightest minds of the early twentieth-century Anglican church.

Description
The third edition in English. Title page (1579) within architectural border. Translated from the French by Arthur Golding, the first and second edition were printed in 1574. Text in two column Roman font. Woodcut initials throughout. Marginal cross references in italics. With an early recipe in manuscript on blank verso of **^8. Ends on colophon (1580). A very scarce edition with ESTC showing only four copies worldwide.
Collation
A^4, *^6, **^8, A-Y^8, Aa-Yy^8, Aaa-Ccc^8. Complete.
Binding
Bound in modern thin blue calf. Spine with four raised bands and a maroon label reading "John Calvin Sermons on the Book of Job." Plain endpapers. Front hinge starting and top quarter of front joint cracked but holding well. Lightly rubbed with bumped corners.
Condition
Text is generally clean and bright; bookplate to front pastedown; title page frayed to edges and laid down; A2 chipped to top edge; marginal dampstaining in front and back; small wormhole to inner column in first 30 or so leaves; small… Read More

SUMMARY
London: Richard Grafton, 1550. Folio (11 x 7.5 in). The first edition of the first complete Bible concordance in English. Woodcut title page, initials, and printer's devices. Full page woodcut of Henry VIII on final leaf by Holbein (frequently lacking).
DESCRIPTION
Text in three column black letter font. Woodcut title page with portrait of King Henry VIII above title and printer s device below. Dedication to King Edward (3 pp.) with engraved woodcut initial. Introduction to the Reader (2 pp.) with engraved woodcut initial. A Table Expressing By Plaine Letters (1 pp.) and a full page woodcut of the printer s device (1 pp.). A blank leaf (A6). Text ends on colophon. A full page woodcut portrait of Henry VIII by his favorite artist Hans Holbein the younger, first published in 1548.
COLLATION
A^6, A-Z^6, Aa-Zz^6, Aaa-Vvv^6, Xxx^1. Lacks Bb4.
PROVENANCE
The signature of William Kythe appears on the final leaf. This is very likely William Kethe a Marian exile, scholar who translated the Geneva… Read More