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pp. 395, (1) [Errata]. Damp stained. Age stained. 12mo. 150 mm. Original full leather binding. Spine decorated in gold with original leather spine label. Front board fragile. Binding rubbed and worn. Johannes Herr (1781-1850), was the founder of the Reformed Mennonite Church. Around 1800 his father (Francis) was expelled from the Mennonite Church in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, PA. Francis began to conduct religious services in his home as a lay brother. He died in 1810, leaving a family of eight children, none of whom had been baptized as members in any church. Among those who associated with him in his lay services were Abraham Landis and David Buckwalter, both of whom had withdrawn from the Mennonite Church. After Francis Herr's death the meetings continued and his son John was asked to lead the services, although he was not yet baptized. In a meeting on 30 May 1812, at John Herr's home John was elected pastor and bishop, and Abraham Landis was elected to baptize him. Herr in turn baptized Landis and Abraham Groff, Groff being elected deacon. Soon thereafter Abraham Landis was chosen preacher, followed by John Groff as preacher. In 1812 the first meetinghouse was dedicated, called Longenecker's. John became a vigorous leader of the new group. He traveled widely, especially to Western New York and Ontario, where congregations of his group were established. Scarce First Edition. PA SHELF 011A
pp. xvii, lxxxvii, 365 (2) [Works of William Cureton] + Two facsimile plates. Rev. Charles James Wood's unusual woodcut bookplate. Penciled ownership of Wm. Berrian. Extract from a 1845 magazine with a review of studies on manuscripts from Egyptian monasteries. 26 cm. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Worn spine repaired with some loss. "Genuine, Interpolated, and Spurious; Together With Numerous Extracts From Them, As Quoted by Ecclesiastical Writers Down to the Tenth Century; In Syriac, Greek, and Latin: An English Translation of the Syriac Text, Copious Notes, and Introduction." William Cureton (1808-1864), a clergyman and scholar, discovered in 1845 the Syriac version of St. Ignatius's Epistles at the British Museum. He was working there as an assistant keeper, examining manuscripts which had recently been brought from the Nitrian desert. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! RELIGION BOX 2
Two volumes. pp. (xxx) 448; (x) 531 + Plates. 8vo. 22 cm. Original publisher's cloth binding. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt. The text includes: "A Short Bibliography of the W itings of Samuel Butler and of the Books and Articles Concerning Him". Samuel Butler was born in Langar, Nottinghamshire. The son of a clergyman and grandson of a Bishop, he was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, where he achieved success as a sheep-farmer. His letters home to his father were compiled to form 'A First Year in Canterbury Settlement' (1863), which later became the core of his most popular work, 'Erewhon'. He returned to England in 1864, having accumulated a small fortune, and settled in Clifford's Inn, where he stayed until his death. In 1872 he published 'Erewhon' (an anagram for nowhere) anonymously. It attacked contemporary attitudes on morals, religion, education, and science by describing a land where (among other things) illness is considered a crime. Sick people are thrown in jail, as their sickness is their own fault. Sad people are also imprisoned, for grief is a sign of misfortune and people are held responsible for the actions that made them unfortunate. People who rob or murder, on the other hand, are treated generously and taken to the hospital to recover from their affliction. No machines are allowed in Erewhon, as a philosopher once speculated that machines could rapidly evolve and would take over the world. Students study anything that has absolutely no practical purpose at the University of Unreason. The book was scintillatingly popular. It still can be read with great enjoyment and relevance today. During the next decade Butler wrote a series of controversial scientific works. They were distinctly anti-Darwin, and especially opposed to certain aspects of the theory of natural selection. He also began experimenting in musical composition, and collaborated with his friend (and later biographer) Henry Festing Jones on the oratorio 'Narcissus' (1880). In 1896 he published the biography of his grandfather, Bishop Samuel Butler. Today, his best-known work is probably 'The Way of Al l Flesh'. It was the thoughtful result of many years of hard labor, but did not appear in his lifetime. "I am the 'enfant terrible' of literature and science. If I cannot (and I know I cannot) get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling. I can (and I know I can) heave bricks into the middle of them" - Samuel Butler, 'Notebooks' **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140
Bumping to bottom of spine. Back corner is bumped. ; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England; 9 x 0.5 x 6 Inches; 222 pages; How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualise the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Dr. Kabir presents the first investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the "interim paradise" or paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She determines the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-Saxon development as a site of contestation and compromise, and argues for its post-Conquest transformation into the doctrine of purgatory.
pp. xxxii, (1) [Errata], 447. XLib bookplates and blind stamps. Engraved bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on front paste down. All edges gilt. 200mm. Original polished calf binding. Boards detached. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! POETRY BX 3
A couple of small tears to DJ front panel and head of spine and with chipping to spine ends. DJ spine is discolored and price-clipped. Light wear to spine ends. Scholar's name on ffep (Peter H. Salus). Light tanning to pages. ; Contents: Segontium, Caer Seint, and Sinadon; Irish Origin and the Welsh Development of the Grail Legend; Chastiel Bran, Dinas Bran, and the Grail Castle; Bran the Blessed and Sone de Nausay; King Arthur and the Antipodes; Welsh Elements in Gawain and the Green Knight; The Combat at the Ford in the Didot Perceval; Morgain la Fée and the Celtic Goddesses; Spoils of Annwn: An Early Welsh Poem; the Arthurian Legend before 1139. ; 238 pages
pp. xx, (8), 160, (4) [Index]. Early manuscript ownership of J. Sanderson on title page. This is likely Judge John Sanderson, Jr. (born 1834), who was involved in several significant legal cases. Early manuscript ownership of John Musgrave on first fly leaf. Inner hinges cloth taped. 12mo. 180 mm. Original but very worn leather binding. Spine crudely taped. Title continues: "And Observations On A Deed Of Feoffment, By T.H. Gent. With Notes And Additions, By Charles Barton, Of The Inner Temple, Esq." S&S/AI 15787. Sixth edition. Hardbound. Binding very poor. Text very good. Should be rebound. First American Edition. AI BX 6
pp. 12 (Ode to Henry S. John; in English and Latin); 36 (Life of Philips by Sewell); 8 (Splendid Shilling)[1719]; 28 (Blenheim); 71 (Cyder); 1 (Publisher's Advertisement) + Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved plate at 'Cyder. Both plates engraved by Gucht. 12mo. 165 mm. Original full leather binding; cracked at joints. Age stain to fly leaves. Manuscript ownership of J. Chappel Woodhouse, 1772 (Woodhouse apparently was Rector of Donington, in Shropshire). Engraved bookplate of George F. Northall. Hardbound. Scarce Third Edition. John Philips (1676-1709), English poet, was one of the few to write in blank / free verse in an age when the heroic couplet was the standard form. His 'Splendid Shilling' (1701, 1705) is a parody of Milton. 'Cyder' (1708), a utilitarian poem describing the cultivation of apples and the pressing of cider, is modeled after Virgil's 'Georgics'. This is a fine early collection of of Philips' major poems, works that, "written in revolt against the heroic couplet, between the death of Dryden and the appearance of Pope, occupy an important position in the history of English literature." The various editions of Philips's poetry are all nonce collections (with separate title pages, and often variant imprint details and dates). Foxon, p. 570 (incorporating p242 and p249); CBEL II 563. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (31 x 25 cm). In Turkish. 488 p., b/w ills. and Ottoman documents. Gallipoli War 1915 based on Ottoman archival documents.
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket, with only light soil and wear. Small repaired chip to top of dust jacket. This survey of English architecture from the 15th through the 18th centuries, focusses on the background architecture, the smaller houses and farm buildings that were built by carpenters and local people. In particular Rosenberg looks at the Cotswold district and what is known as the "Cotswold type" of building, which dates from 1570 to 1700. Several examples also from Surrey, Sussex and Kent. Cotswold builders used limestone, the other counties used the material they had to hand, which was timber. So these styles involved extensive timber and plaster-work. Illustrated with black & white photos, line drawings and sketches. No text, just a brief foreword and notes to the plates, identifying location and materials. Folio, 13" high X 10" wide, 102 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
pp. viii, 436. 16 mo. 150 mm. Edges uncut. Remains of the original printed wraps. An early French conversation and phrase book apparently designed for English and American travelers in France. VERY SCARCE. OCLC records only the copy at the New York Public Library. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR-VOYAGE 3RD FL
pp. lxvi, 420. Illustrated with 140 wonderful descriptive woodcut vignettes. Text foxed. Engraved bookplate on front endpaper. Engraved and manuscript gift label presentation on front paste down "presented by the Council of King's College, London to George W.H. Fletcher as a prize for Divinity Dept. of General Literature & Science 29th June, 1852". 220mm. Original full leather binding. Boards detached. Front board decorated with the King's College coat of arms embossed in gold. Gilt decorated spine with homemade spine label. Could be fairly easily repaired. Hardbound. Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SPORTS/ GAMES BX 5
SIGNED BY ED SULLIVAN WITH DEDICATION dated 9/26/59 AND ADDITIONAL INSCRIBED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. Both dedications are to Rolf (Rolph). Edward Vincent Sullivan (1901-1974) - an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and longtime syndicated columnist for the 'New York Daily News'. He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program 'The Toast of the Town', later renamed 'The Ed Sullivan Show', which was broadcast from 1948 to 1971, setting a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. 220x150mm. X+278 pages. Half-cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt and silver lettering on spine. Jacket yellowing and rubbed. Jacket edges tattered and partly taped. Cover board and text-block edges yellowing. Text block edges stained. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This exquisite collection of Christmas stories by one of the most important figures in American show-business, with two signed dedications by the renowned author, is in good condition.
Collection Latomus Volume 299; 246 pages
Two volumes. pp. xxxiv, (6), 498 + Frontis engraving, dated 1798, of Mercury, seated; (6), 590, (2). Offsetting from frontis, as usual. Foxed. 8vo. 235 mm. The original paper boards binding has perished and should be sometimereplaced. John Horne (1736-1812), later known as John Horne Tooke began his celebrity when he became an enthusiastic partisan of Wilkes in 1768. They made a good pair. Horne loved battles of wits and legal maneuvering, and he sympathized with every cause for liberty, including the French Revolution, and the independence of the American Colonies. Wilkes and Horne later came to bitter disagreement and fought a war of 'Letters'. The redoubtable Junius entered the controversy on Wilkes's side. Horne retorted vigorously, and proved the most successful critic of that famous agitator. A friend of Horne's, William Tooke, lived in the charming town of Purley, and it was he who persuaded John Horne, by then a famous political agitator, to add the name of Tooke to his (as a mutual honor after Horne had successfully fought an Enclosure Act which would have adversely affected Tooke's Purley property). After John Horne Tooke wrote 'The Diversions of Purley' it was apparent that he wanted to be heir to at least half of his Tooke's fortune; but thiswas not to be. This edition of discursive and eccentric linguistic essays,edited and printed by Richard Taylor (1781-1858), is considered the best version of 'The Diversions of Purley'. W151 R
Former owner's name on titlepage. Some pencil underlinings to text and fountain pen annotations to margins of about 50 pages of text. Book is solid with edgewear to top and bottom edges of spine and hinges. Minor edgewear to corners. ; English introduction with Latin text. ; 442 pages
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script. 53 p. Ingiltere ordusu. Bütün Ingiliz sefâin-i harbiyesinin tarih-i insa, mücehhez olduklari islahanin addile sefâinin mukadar-i mertebetini gösterir mufassal bir de cedvel ilâve edilmistir. Roumi: 1331 = Gregorian: 1915. A study on British army system. It contains information on the organization and presence of the armed forces of the Great Britain and its colonies. Not in Özege. Kösedag 224. First and Only Edition.
pp. (4), (i)-vii, (1)-328. Loss top and bottom of title page. Title page very age stained. Lacks fly leaves. Foxed. **Early manuscript ownerships of D. (Dr?) Samuel Wiestling and George P. Wiestling on title page. Last page has comments on the book in German by D. Wiestling. Samuel Wiestling (1763-1823) was German born, and settled in Dauphin Cty., PA. His son George (1808-1883) was a printer and businessman in Harrisburg. 12mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding, very worn. Rear board detached. Original leather spine label. Title continues: 'Written Originally in German by M. Zimmerman, Aulic Counsellor and Physician to His Britannic Majesty at Hanover. Translated from the French of J.B. Mercier'. Hardbound. Binding and title page poor. Remainder of text good. Evans 26528. EVANS1
First edition, [16], 112pp., disbound. The Dedication is signed: Thomas Fitzgerald. Foxon, p.276.
First edition, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), xii, 203, [1]pp., with a list of subscribers, original boards, cloth spine, paper label (worn). Nearly 500 subscribers are listed at the end, almost all East Anglians, inclding Bernard Barton, George Crabbe the younger, Amelia Opie and J..J. Gurney. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate. Not in Jackson; Johnson, Provincial Poetry, 963.
First edition, 8vo (228 x 145 mm), viii, 75, [1]pp., one of 54 copies printed, small neat stamp to front paste-down, quarter vellum, lightly soiled.
First edition, small 8vo, [16, ads], xlv, [1], 118, [2, ads]pp., engraved frontispiece foxed, orig. cloth, spine paper label rubbed and a little chipped.
First and only edition, small 8vo, [2], 114pp., with half-title, ex-library with ownership stamp to recto of title page and library numbers on verso, library buckram, uncut. Rare provincially printed poetry. Rare provincially printed poetry.
First edition, 12mo (163 x 100 mm), v, [1], [7]-319, [1], v [index], [1, advert]pp., vignette to title page, engravings within the text, orig. publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, joints split. Provenance: Maggs Bros. pencil not to front paste-down 'Ex Sir Thomas Phillipps Library', with Sir Thomas' Ms. press-mark in pencil to front free-endpaper.
First edition, 2 vols., xxxii, [2],502; viii,503-1059pp., frontispieces, orig. cloth. The collection has 465 author sections with 13,291 numbered items, all with full collations. The Colbeck collection fills a respectable niche on Victorian reference shelves alongside the more famous libraries of Thomas Wise (The Ashley Library) and Chauncey Brewster Tinker and the two great Victorian collections of fiction formed by Michael Sadleir and Robert Lee Wolff.