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A Dictionary Of The Bible
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A Dictionary Of The Bible: Comprising It's Antiquities, Biography, Geography And Natural History With Numerous Illustrations And Maps, Engraved Expressly For This Work

by Edited By William Smith

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The cover of this book has much wear. A binding was added later as well as pads for the corner's of the book. the previous owners names are written on the inside of the front cover and on the top of the third blank page. The pages are yellowing and tanning. The edges of most of the pages are worn. This is a rare book and dates 147 years old.."There are three books which ought to be found in every household - the Bible, an English dictionary, and a Bible dictionary. The necessity of the first two is universally admitted; and a moment's consideration will show the almost equal importance of the third." - Preface to the edition by the publishers
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Tractatus de sensu et auctoritate decretorum Constantiensis Concilii sessione quarta et quinta...
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Tractatus de sensu et auctoritate decretorum Constantiensis Concilii sessione quarta et quinta circa potestatem ecclesiasticam editorum cum actis et gestis ad illa spectantibus...

by SCHELSTRATE, Emmanuel

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1686 Council of Constance Catholic Papal Decrees Vatican Library Schelstrate

Emmanuel Schelstrate was a 17th-century Catholic clergyman known for being the Vatican Library librarian. While working in the Vatican, he wrote a number of works discussing various aspects of the Catholic Church including decrees of the popes, as well as reports on the Council of Constance which discuss the ecclesiastical powers that were determined in the fourth and fifth sessions of the 15th-century ecumenical council.
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SCHELSTRATE, Emmanuel
Tractatus de sensu et auctoritate decretorum Constantiensis Concilii sessione quarta et quinta circa potestatem ecclesiasticam editorum cum actis et gestis ad illa spectantibus...
Romae: Typis S. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1686. 1st edition

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Triomph van de christelycke leere ofte grooten Catechismus met eene breede verklaringhe van alle...
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Triomph van de christelycke leere ofte grooten Catechismus met eene breede verklaringhe van alle syne voornaemste stukken ende eene korte Wederlegginghe van den Catechismus der Calvinisten

by HAZART, Cornelius

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1683 Dutch Hazart Church History JESUIT Missions TORTURE Martyrs America Africa

Cornelius Hazart was a 17th-century Dutch Jesuit priest and controversialist writer. His "Ecclesiastical History of the Whole World" delivered on the 'controversial' side of church history, as Hazart explored some of the most detestable acts of the church including tortures, imprisonments, wars on religion, and brutal executions, such as drowning, hangings, beheadings, and burnings.

This 1683 Dutch printing is taken from the first Antwerp edition from 1667. This book covers church history throughout Europe, including Germany, France, Netherlands, and England,
with parts dedicated to the Americas and Africa. This universal church history is unquestionably Hazart's greatest work and is ideal for historical perspective on Jesuit missions and missionaries around the world, as well as martyrs throughout church history.
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Fides Regio Britannica sive Annales ecclesiae Britannicae Ubi pottisimum Britannorum Catholica...
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Fides Regio Britannica sive Annales ecclesiae Britannicae Ubi pottisimum Britannorum Catholica Romana et orthodoxa fides per quinque prima saecula e regum, et Augustorum factis, et aliorum sanctorum rebus e virtute gestis, asseritus

by ALFORD, Michael (i.e. Griffith)

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1663 1ed Annals of Britain Anglo Saxons Church of England Alford Griffith Fides

Michael Alford Griffith was an early 17th-century English Jesuit historian who is best remembered for his book 'Fides Regio' or 'Ecclesiastical and Civil Annals of Britain'. This series of books covered a variety of topics including:
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ancient coins and medals
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the establishment of English law throughout Great Britain

These Annals were first published in 1663 in Liege, Belgium.
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ALFORD, Michael (i.e. Griffith)
Fides Regio Britannica sive Annales ecclesiae Britannicae Ubi pottisimum Britannorum Catholica Romana et orthodoxa fides per quinque prima saecula e regum, et Augustorum factis, et aliorum sanctorum rebus e virtute gestis, asseritus
Leodii [Liege] : Jo. Mathias Hovii, 1663. First edition.

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The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. UKRAINIA

The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. UKRAINIA

by Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.

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UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.
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Decisiones rotae romanae Francisci Card. Mantica a germanico Mantica protonotario... Quibus...
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Decisiones rotae romanae Francisci Card. Mantica a germanico Mantica protonotario... Quibus arduae perplexae, atque tam ab ecclesiasticis, quam secularibus suscitatae controversiae fuerunt diremptae, et executioni demandatae : Annexo dencho omnium excusarum, et indice verum et verborum.

by MANTICA, Francesco

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1618 Roman Rota Catholic Ecclesiastical LAW Vatican Cardinal Mantica Bologna

Francesco Mantica was a 16th-century Bolognese Cardinal who was famously part of the Roman Rota during the 1580s. This 1618 printing of 'Decisions of the Roman Rota' is a collection of ecclesiastical law proceedings at the Vatican. This edition includes 375 legal decisions made by Cardinal Mantica from 1587 through 1596.
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MANTICA, Francesco
Decisiones rotae romanae Francisci Card. Mantica a germanico Mantica protonotario... Quibus arduae perplexae, atque tam ab ecclesiasticis, quam secularibus suscitatae controversiae fuerunt diremptae, et executioni demandatae : Annexo dencho omnium excusarum, et indice verum et verborum.

Venetiis : Apud Juntas (Giunta), 1618.

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Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum...
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Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum homo: et de his que sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsum et Deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam Deo quam proximo.

by De Sabunde, Raymundus (Raimundus Sabundus, Raymond of Sebonde or Ramon Sibiuda, Catalan scholar, c.1385-1436)

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Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris, 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio, printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach, 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: new Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Malvern; tawed quarter leather over quarter-sawn oak boards, quires hand-sewn on four double-cords creating four raised spine bands, board leather blind-tooled with period style rosettes and fleurs-de-lys within panel of diagonal blind triple fillets, hand-sewn Gothic double headbands of alternate hand-dyed indigo and undyed linen thread, hand-made brass hasps and clasps ornamented in period style; an exceptionally attractive recreation of a Gothic hand-sewn binding employing medieval techniques contemporaneous with the date the book was printed. COLLATION: [pi]6, a2-8, b-y6, z8, zeta6, antisigma8; leaf a1 excised and subsequent first few lines of a2[recto] redacted in black ink in the sixteenth century by the inquisitor for its heretical content (see below). TEXT: Double… Read More
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Histoire du cardinal Ximenès
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Histoire du cardinal Ximenès

by FLECHIER, Esprit

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1694 Spanish Inquisition History of Cardinal Ximenes Catholic Church Flechier 2v
Esprit Fléchier was a 17th-century French author who composed two important historical works – the histories of Cardinal Ximenes and Emperor Theodosius I – which are known to be highly accurate and insightful. While known primarily for his written sermons, spiritual memoires, and religious writings, these historical works have been Flechier's most desirable works.
This book, 'Histoire de Cardinal Ximenes', is considered one of the best works on the life of the 15th-century Spanish cardinal. This work is also notable for describing the reforms during the Spanish Inquisition.
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FLECHIER, Esprit
Histoire du cardinal Ximenès
Paris: chez Jean Anisson, 1694.

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Diogenis Laertii De vita et moribus philosophorum, libri X.
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Diogenis Laertii De vita et moribus philosophorum, libri X.

by DIOGENES, Laertius

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1592 Diogenes Laertius Eminent Philosophers Greek Aristotle Socrates Philosophy
"Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend."
– Diogenes Laërtius

'Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers' is often considered the best Greco-Roman biography of notable philosophers. Written in the 3rd-century by Greek scholar Diogenes Laërtius, this work gives an account of the lives, studies, and sayings of Greek philosophers. Diogenes originally wrote ten distinct books covering Ionian and Italian philosophers – notable names include:
· Solon
· Socrates
· Anacharsis
· Xenophon
· Cebes
· Plato
· Aristotle
· Theophrastus
· Menippus
· Dionysius
· Pythagoras
· Xenophanes
· Democritus
· Pyrrho
· Epicurus
This edition was published in 1592 by Gryphium who used the Latin translation of Ambrogio Traversari.
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1686 IRELAND 1ed James Ussher Life & Letters Archbishop Irish Bible Sermons
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1686 IRELAND 1ed James Ussher Life & Letters Archbishop Irish Bible Sermons

by PARR, Richard

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1686 IRELAND 1ed James Ussher Life & Letters Archbishop Irish Bible Sermons

"What is it which all men especially desire? Eternal life and happiness?" ­
– James Ussher, Body of Divinity
James Ussher was an early 17th-century Archbishop in the Church of Ireland who is most remembered for giving an exact date to the beginning of creation. His full body of work includes letters, sermons, dissertations, and exegeticals, but this work focuses solely on improving the Christians life and strengthening their faith. A biographical sketch of Ussher's life was written by Richard Parr in 1686 in which he included hundreds of correspondence letters, including those from William Camden and Edward Stradling.
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PARR, Richard
The life of the most reverend father in God, James Usher, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland. With a collection of three hundred letters, between the said Lord Primate and most of the eminentest persons for piety and learning… Read More
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Freemasonry in the Holy Land A narrative of masonic explorations made in 1868, in the land of...
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Freemasonry in the Holy Land A narrative of masonic explorations made in 1868, in the land of King Solomon and the two Hirams… Masonic Odes and Poems

by MORRIS, Robert

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1877 Freemasonry in Holy Land Voyages Masonic Poetry Eastern Star Robert Morris
Robert Morris was an important American Freemason poet who is chiefly remembered for creating the Order of the Eastern Star. He composed over 400 poems most of which dealt with the Eastern Star and Freemasonry. He voyaged to the Holy Land and wrote hymns and poems based on his experiences there. He also published a book describing his sights and discoveries in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt entitled 'Freemasonry in the Holy Land' which featured many of his poems and odes.
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MORRIS, Robert
Freemasonry in the Holy Land A narrative of masonic explorations made in 1868, in the land of King Solomon and the two Hirams… Masonic Odes and Poems
Chicago : Published for the author [by] Knight & Leonard, printers, 1877.

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Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae extant omnia
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Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae extant omnia

by CICERO, Marcus Tullius

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1692 Works of CICERO Orations Politics Philosophy ROME Dutch Gronovio Latin 2v
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero was one of the most notable and prolific Roman figures of ancient Rome. His philosophical works and letters are considered the most reliable source of information for the period leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic. The works of Cicero have been published in numerous languages and formats from as early as the mid-15th-century.

This Latin set was published by Peter Van der Aa in Lyon in 1692 and was edited by the famous Dutch scholar Jacob Gronovius. It contains Cicero's philosophical orations. Gronovius included the contributions of Janus Gruterus and Janus Gulielmus.

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CICERO, Marcus Tullius
Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae extant omnia,
Lugduni Batavorum, Apud P. vander Aa, 1692.

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Insight: A Study of Human Understanding [Signed]
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Insight: A Study of Human Understanding [Signed]

by Lonergan, Bernard

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London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1958. Revised edition. Octavo. Original cloth boards and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Foxing and toning to endpapers and pastedowns; foxing, spotting, and rubbing to dust jacket with edgewear, particularly at jacket folds and along head and foot; sunning to spine; small ink inscription to front pastedown; general wear to dust jacket. Signed by Bernard Lonergan on the front free endpaper with message: "Bernard Lonergan S.J. / The fundamental principle is [...] conversion / eg. P. xxii, f. 'The hard fact is...'" Very good in good-plus dust jacket. Scarce with Lonergan's signature and personal annotation.. Bernard Lonergan's (1904-1984) masterpiece, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, with Lonergan's rare personal signature and inscription to front free endpaper. Lonergan's Insight was born out of the success of a 1945 lecture that he gave at the Thomas More Institute in Montreal entitled "Thought and Reality." In the following years he wrote Insight in order to… Read More
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History of the Crusades
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History of the Crusades

by MICHAUD, Joseph-François

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1859 History of CRUSADES Michaud Holy Wars Jerusalem Knights Templar MAPS 2v

A rare, 19th-century printing of Joseph-François Michaud's "History of the Crusades". Michaud's principal work discusses the beginning of the crusades through the Council of Clermont. It covers the departure of crusaders after the Council of Nicee, the Siege of Antioch, Election of Godefroy, Battle of Ascalon, reign of Baudouin II, conquests of Saladin, and the events designed to protect Jerusalem from a fall.
Note the impressive folding maps in these tomes from the 1859 American edition.
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MICHAUD, Joseph-François
History of the Crusades
New York: Redfield, 1859.

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A relation of the conference between William Laud ... and Mr. Fisher the Jesuit, by the command...
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A relation of the conference between William Laud ... and Mr. Fisher the Jesuit, by the command of King James of ever blessed memory

by LAUD, William

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1668 William LAUD Canterbury & John Percy Jesuit Protestant Calvinism Martyr

William Laud was the source and origin of many controversial and contentious arguments between Protestants and Catholics in the 17th-century. He was accused of heresy and false-doctrine by both sects, opposing Catholicism and called an opponent of Puritanism. While Laud was the confidant to the Duke of Buckingham, the Duke hired Jesuit John Percy (also known as John Fisher) as a chaplain. A series of pamphlets and arguments by Laud soon followed.

This treatise, 'A Relation of the Conference,' describes the heated debates and controversial nature of the attitudes between Calvinists and Jesuits. This work is a first-hand account of the conference between Perry and Laud in 1622 discussing the infallibility of the church, doctrine of Calvinism, and the foundations of Scriptures and Creeds.

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