Religion from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Coloniae: Prostant apud Iacobum à Meurs Amstelodami, 1655. Binding with wear at extremites; pale dampstain throughout the text. Volume 1 only: 12mo (15 x 8.8 cm). [8], 683, [29] pages. Text in double-columns. Engraved title signed I.v. Meaurs and 52 engraved emblems in text. COntemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Provenance: early shelfmark of S. Maurity in manuscript on… Read more

New York: Bangs & Co, 1880. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Lacks rear wrapper, spine chipped with some associated loss to front wrapper. 8vo. 50 pages. Original printed wrappers; in a cloth folding chemise. A priced copy. "There is in this catalogue, fifty titles which are rare, and fifty more which are scarce. Be kind enough to help… Read more

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. In fine, very well preserved condition. 8vo. 381 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "The poet Li Bo (701-762) has long inspired controversy among readers and critics. Known even during his lifetime as the Banished Immortal, he continues to spark imaginations and challenge passionately held convictions about poetic values. In this… Read more

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. In fine, very well preserved condition. 8vo. 483 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "A study and translation of a 14th-century text on the transmission of the Zen lineages in Vietnam. The author argues that there has never been a Zen tradition in Vietnam, but that Zen manifests itself in a… Read more

Rome: Il Salomoni, 1796. Title and first leaf with small marginal wormhole, title with old book label removed at bottom, partially covering imprint, A2/3 sprung, some pale marginal dampstaining to several gatherings at front, intermittent pale spotting, natural paper crease in lower margin of gathering Nn; binding with rubbing at corners and board edges, spine with some wormtracks. A… Read more

New York: American Tract Society, 1841. Pale foxing, several leaves dog-eared, light wear to binding at extremities, but overall a handsome copy. Early owner's name in ink on front flyleaf. 8vo. 352 pages. Contemporary tree calf, morocco lettering-piece on spine. First edition.

Bamberg: Johann Martin Schönwetter, 1677. Covers slightly bowed, spine label chipped, lacks final 2 leaves at end of the index, Hhhh3 with lower corner torn away and loss of text, some browning and occasional foxing. Neatly annotated in several places in ink by a contemporary reader. 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm). [36], 784, [40] pages. Text in double-columns.… Read more

Philadelphia: New Church Congregational Union, 1870. A fine copy with a small black mark on front wrapper. 12mo (18.5 x 12 cm). 29 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Parsons's paper was originally printed in 'New Jerusalem Magazine.' He has added further text to correct certain misapprehensions of the original text, and to supplement it with text that… Read more

Philadelphia: New Church Congregational Union, 1870. Wrappers lightly browned, with a pale shadow of transecting lines on front wrapper. 12mo (18.5 x 12 cm). 29 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Parsons's paper was originally printed in 'New Jerusalem Magazine.' He has added further text to correct certain misapprehensions of the original text, and to supplement it with… Read more

London: John Crook, 1656. Discreet repairs to joints, a wide-margined copy with shoulder-notes uncropped. 8vo (156 x 106 mm). [24], 151, [9] pages. Title printed in red and black, complete with errata leaf and initial and final blanks. Contemporary English blind-ruled calf, printer's waste endpapers; cloth clamshell case. Provenance: Robert Davies (early signature on title); with Bernard Quaritch… Read more

London: R[oger] N[ortron] for A[ndrew] Crook, 1670. Paper lightly browned, title with pale browning at edges from binding. 8vo (174 x 110 mm). [32], 221 pages. Lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait. Modern half red morocco, gilt-lettered on spine. Third edition of Sanderson's treatise on oaths. ESTC R34127; Wing S484.

Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762. Two volumes, 12mo (165 x 97 mm; 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.). Half-titles. xii, 436; viii, 479 pages. Contemporary French cat's-paw sheep, the spine in six compartments with five raised bands, tan morocco lettering-pieces in two, a repeated floral panel in the remaining. A very good copy with light wear to the binding at… Read more

New York: Edward H. Fletcher, 1862. 8vo. 4], xiv, [3], 18-220 pp, 11-page advertisements at end. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait of Bertram, portrait of the author, and engraved title by J. Bannister. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Binding worn, pale browning and dampstaining. Provenance: James L. Ward (contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION.… Read more

London: W. B. for A. and J. Churchil, R. Sare, and J. Tonson, 1704. 8vo (177 x 113 mm). Translated from the French into English by Basil Kenet (1674-1715). [1], lviii, [12], 392 pp. 2-leaf manuscript index at end (wear at edges). 18th-century half calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece. Light wear at extremities, rear hinge… Read more

Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1503. Small folio (254 x 184 mm). Collation: A8 a-f6 g4 h-z 8 8 A-Z Aa-Gg6. 336 leaves. 41 lines, double columns. Gothic types. Title in nine lines (the first a xylographic block) over a cut of Salvator Mundi flanked by two blocks of architecture, 149 woodcut illustrations, (some composite, 24 full-page, 125 half-page);… Read more

New York: M'Elrath and Bangs for Carvill, Bliss, Collis et a., 1828. Some rubbing, a few small stains. 8vo. 304pp. Original mottled sheep, red morocco lettering-piece. A collection of 16 sermons from the minister at Heydon Hall, Middlesex.

N.p. [possibly Burlington, Wis.], 1893. 8vo. 15 pp. Text in double column. Disbound. Originally published by Strang in Voree, Wisconsin in 1848. Concerns Strang's attempt to prove that he was the rightful heir to Joseph Smith's position as head of the Mormon Church. It precedes the expanded version, 'The Prophetic Controversy.' Flake 8504; Howes S1063; Morgan, Strangite S3. … Read more

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Limited edition, number 605 of 1600 copies. Slightest wear to glassine and rubbing to spine, otherwise fine.. Folio. Original black morocco-backed patterned boards; original glassine; publisher's slipcase.