Rare books from St. Wulfstans Books

London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for Charles Rivington, 1722. Seventh edition (Rationale), Second edition (Lives). Leather Bound. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece + combined title page in red and black + 5 leaf preface + title page (Lives) + 1 leaf (contents) + ccx + 12 page index + title (Rationale) + 4 leaves preface and contents + 317 numbered pages (including two additional separate titles for included works) + 11 page table and index. A few spots and closed tear to title page, otherwise generally very clean. Bound in full paneled calf which is bumped and rubbed. Both hinges professionally repaired with Japanese tissue, spine with five raised and gilt bands, and chipping losses to head and tail. ESTCT130846. A very good copy of this early description of the compilation of the English BCP, biographies of the compilers, and commentary on the BCP. Sparrow (1612-1685) was an English Anglican priest and bishop of Norwich and Exeter. He was also an adherent of… Read More

Placentiae [Piacenza]: Ex officina Jo[hannem] Bazachi[um], 1586. Vellum. Very Good +. 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. [16] + 420 + [74] + 2 blank pages + [60] + 1 rfep. Contemporary ink inscriptions to title, last page and contemporary notes on rfep. Some pages misnumbered, scattered staining and small worming, mostly at margins. Page 324 with ink "S" in margin. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with expert recasing. A very good early copy of the proceedings of the Council of Trent and the Index of Forbidden Books with all the expected Protestant listings.

London: Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1633. Leather Bound. Very Good. 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Folio. 2 ffep + A - b (4 leaf quires) + B - H (6 leaf quires) + I (4 leaf quire). Title page cropped and relaid with loss to imprint. Marginal loss to A3 not affecting text. Griffiths 1633/2. Bound with: The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New [Authorised/KJV version]. London: Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1633. [10] + 327 numbered leaves (OT) + 328-403 (of 404) (Apocrypha) + 406-507 (NT). Engraved title to Bible closely cropped at fore-edge. Lower half of last leaf of preface (A8) lacking. Folio 1 of OT with lower marginal loss affecting text. 163 with loss of lower quarter. Old repairs to marginal tears on a few pages. Occasional closed tear or marginal loss with no loss of text, and minor soiling and old marking. Folio 108 misnumbered 118, 117 as 61, 148 as 184, 152 as 154, 216 as 215, 224 as 223, 225 as 226, 232 as 231, 233 as 237, 234 as 238, 235 as 246, then… Read More

London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662. First edition. Half leather. Very Good. 7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches. b3 - b8 + c (8 leaf quire) + d (2 leaf quire) + B - Gg (6 leaf quires) + Hh (7 of 8 leaves). Lacks initial 8 leaves, G3, R5, and Hh8. Begins with part of the Act of Uniformity. Kalendar in red and black. Soiled and dampstained. Several pages with contemporary ink notes. Several pages with closed tears that have been repaired with no loss. A few pages with marginal losses affecting text, mostly minimally, and a few other marginal losses not affecting text. ESTCR211954. Griffiths 1662/2. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English Meeter. London: Printed by S.G. for the Company of Stationers, 1661. [19], 153, [16] pages, lacking pages after 139. ESTCR31616. Bound in modern tan half leather with brown buckram boards and new endpapers. True First Edition of the corrected 1662 edition of the English BCP. Very rare.

New York: American Bible Society, 1867. 3/4 cloth. Very Good +. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Folio. [1] + [872] – 974 leaves. Printed in raised letters for the blind. Tears to upper margin of front endpapers and, edges lightly soiled. Bound in contemporary 3/4 black leather and black cloth which is worn at edges. A scarce early American edition of its kind. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, several decades before the widespread adoption of Braille, printers and educators in France and Britain began developing a variety of tactile reading systems for the visually impaired, making independent reading among the blind possible for the first time in history. The results of an important competition at the Royal Society of Arts in Edinburgh in 1832 inspired the American activist, Samuel Gridley Howe, to research and develop his own embossed reading system for the blind, which emerged in 1835 as "Boston Line Type." Drawing upon the methods of James Gall, an entrant in the Edinburgh… Read More

New York: American Tract Society, [1861]. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. 4to. 1061 (OT) + [7] + 1065 - 1504 pages. With 3 double-page and 1 full page colored maps at beginning and two leaves of family records partly filled in. Old tape reinforcement to inner hinges. Pages otherwise clean and bright. NT with separate title page. 3 volumes bound as one. Hills 1742. Bound in contemporary full brown leather with deep blind stamped patterns on covers and spine. Gilt title and five raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelles. Light wear to edges and corners. An excellent early American family Bible.

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by M. Carey & Son, 1818. Leather Bound. Very Good. 9 x 10 1/2 inches. [4] + 1-834 (OT) + [829-34] (family register) + 835-1080 (NT and index). With 11 full page engravings. Printed in two column Roman type. Pages 569-70 lacking. Slight loss to 855-56. Significant loss to 911-12. Four pages of family records include Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853). Hills #345. Bound with: Brown, John. A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Mathew Carey & Son, 1818. 72 numbered pages. Pages 67-70 lacking. A few pages toned or stained. Bound in contemporary full maroon straight grained morocco with gilt rolled borders and gilt title and decorations to spine. Hinges weak. Covers scuffed and worn at edges. The Asher Mott Howell Family Bible: Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853) was a relative of abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott, and the subject of a portrait by American painter Jacob Eichholtz currently on loan to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Romae [Rome]: Societatis Sancti Joannis (Romae), 1898. Leather Bound. Near Fine/very good. 3 x 4 3/4 inches. [20] + 574 + 302 + 4 + 16 numbered pages. Pages red ruled, with numerous full page illustrations. Bound in full black leather with slip case and matching dust jacket. Samuel Hart's personal copy of these Roman (Tridentine) rites, with ink inscription to ffep "T[o] Hart, with much love, from John Burney / Paris, 1901 From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of the Episcopal Church at Middletown, Connecticut. In 1886, he became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. In 1892, he became secretary of the House of Bishops. In 1898, he became the fourth historiographer of the Episcopal Church. He served in all three of these offices until his… Read More

London: John Sturt and John Baskett, 1717. First edition, first state. Leather Bound. Near Fine. John Sturt. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 8vo. 22 + 166 pages. Front hinge and front endpaper expertly reattached by conservator with Japanese tissue. Marbled endpaper and following ffep contain inscription "The gift of Lady Parkyns to her Daughter Anne Parkyns May 7th 1740." Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir William Milman on front endpaper, partially obscuring one of the inscriptions. Small area where a name was erased from marbled endpaper interrupting marbling. Each page beautifully engraved by John Sturt on silver plates. More than 130 engraved vignettes ranging in size from 41 mm x 55 mm to 84 mm x 55 mm, numerous other smaller in-text vignettes, initials, head and tailpieces, etc. Each page with elaborate engraved border. This edition also double red ruled. Volvelle present in original state on page V, thus first state. Pages very clean with small occasional minor smudge. All page edges gilt, with… Read More

Utrecht: Printed by [Wilhelmus Clerck & Joannes a Stuyvesant for] Johannes Ribbius et al, 1684-1686. Third edition. Vellum. Very Good. 9 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches. 5 vols. Most pages printed in dual columns which are numbered separately. Pages generally bright and clean. Bound in matching full contemporary Dutch vellum with blindstamped arabesque centerpiece and blindruled paneling on covers. Red leather spine label with gilt title and volume number on each volume. Provenance: From the collections of Wolferdus Seneguerdius (1646-1724), professor of physics at Leiden, with his contemporary ownership inscriptions; Philip Van Swinden, with later 18th Century bookplate; Rev. James Thomas Law (1790-1876), signature dated 1815; and Wells Theological College, with 19th Century bookplates (gift from Law).Vol. 1: [1 leaf] + I-VIII numbered pages + [3 leaves] + 1-1248 columns (1206 misnumbered) + [1 leaf] + 1-1028 columns (569-70, 579-80 misnumbered). Front joint cracked.Vol. 2: [12 pages] +… Read More

London: Printed by Robert Barker, 1615. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 7 x 8 1/2 inches. 4to. B (10 leaves) + C-E (in 8s). Lacks preliminaries. Begins with Communion. Griffiths 1615/4. Bound with: The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages; with most profitable annotations vpon all hard places, and other things of great importance [Geneva/Breeches version]. London: Robert Barker, 1615. Collates as *(4 leaves of NT Preliminaries before BCP) + A-Hhh (in 8s) + Iii (2 leaves) + Kkk-Yyy (in 8s) + Zzz (10 leaves). General title lacking. Bible text complete with light dampstain throughout. A few pages with old ink marks or stains, tears or repairs without loss of text. Top margin closely cropped on some pages. NT title page and preliminaries bound before BCP. Herbert 340/341. Bound with: R[obert] H[errey], Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances, or Large and… Read More

London: Robert Barker, 1611. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. Folio. [78] (of [80]) pages. Lacking title page. Griffiths 1611/2. Bound with: The Bible: That is The holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament. London: Robert Barker, [1612]. [4] + 362 (OT) + 361-444 (Apocrypha) + 135 (NT) + [7] (tables) leaves. Collates as A (4 leaves) + A-Lll (in 6s) + Mmm - Ooo (in 8s) + Ppp - Eeee (in 6s) + Ffff (4 leaves). Engraved title page with old repair to closed tear at bottom. Full page woodcut of Garden of Eden present,with loss to lower outer corner of image. B6 with old manuscript repair to loss at outer corner. Lacks 2Z3.4 (Isaiah 17:13-24:18). Herbert 312. STC 2218. NT with separate title page dated 1611. Printed in two column Roman type. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1612. 114 + [6] (of 8) pages. Collates as A-K (in 6s) + L (1 of 2 leaves, lacking… Read More

Lugduni [Lyon]: Coimpressa Sumptibus honorat. vir. Jacobi. q. Francisci de Giunta Florentini, 4 May 1536. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 6 x 8 1/4 inches. Begins at t(cross)ii, otherwise collates as complete compared with Registrum on last page. First page with large woodcut and printed in red and black. Some light dampstains to lower margins and last four to five lines of text. Printed in two column black letter. With numerous decorated initial capitals and miniatures. Occasional old ink in margins. Title and author in ink to foreedge. Two brands to top edge (an "S" and an "F" with a small circle on to horizontal line of the "F"). Bound in old brown calf over wooden boards, with darkened geometrical designs possibly made with heated instruments. Brass catches, clasps and corners, with brass clasps renewed. Professionally rebacked to style with four large raised bands. Provenance: Convent in Arequipa, Peru, title page excised during the 1884 war with Chile. Although… Read More

London: Philadelphia printed, Re-Printed J. Debrett, 1789. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 8vo. [364] pages including the errata sheet and terminal advertisement. Collates as: a (2 leaves) + b (6 leaves) + A - B (in 6s) + C - P (in 12s) + Q (6 leaves). Handwritten note to ffep in near contemporary hand noting "Rev'd Marshall D. Smith, Passaic, New Jersey. Very rare and therefore to be carefully used and returned to the owner." Small thumbnail sized chip at bottom outer margin of title page with no loss of text. Some light soiling to first half of the text, but pages otherwise clean and free from marking soiling or staining. Top edge brightly gilt. Other edges uncut. Bound in early 20th Century polished calf by Pratt with gilt panels of triple gilt-ruled borders and gilt acorn decorations in corners. Original spine with six gilt decorated compartments and two black morocco spine labels relaid. Extremities lightly rubbed. Griffiths 1789/8. A spectacular and uncut copy… Read More

London: Christopher Barker, 1585. Good. 10 1/4 x 15 inches (text block only). Folio. Lacks leaves before leaf 8. Bible begins at leaf 8 - 536 (OT & Apocrypha) + 137 (NT). A4 + B (6 leaves) + [par.] (6 leaves) + 2[par.] (2 leaves) + A - Tttt (6 leaves) + Uuuu (8 leaves) (OT & Apocrypha) + A - Z (6 leaves) (NT). Small text loss to lower margin/corner of leaf 8, 288, 293, 391, 438 (OT) and 5, 80 (NT), closely cropped on foremargin with slight loss to some notes, more particularly at bottom. Psalter, gospels and epistles rather soiled and worn with closed marginal tears and old repairs. Occasional ink to the margins. Edges soiled. Also lacks 17, 18, 290 (OT), 75, 76 (NT), lower half of 291 (OT), lower one-third of 292, 297 (OT), 33, 106, 121 (NT). Increasing wear to margins towards the end of the New Testament, with 9 leaves following Y3 (title of Revelation) lacking, and a few leaves at the end loose. Separate title pages to Psalter and New Testament complete, outer half of Apocrypha title… Read More