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187434783Hartford: The Case Lockwood & Brainard Co 1874. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Stitched wraps. Light purple covers with title on the front. Front cover is chipped on the edges and loose. Previous owner name top of the front cover. Back cover has a small closed tear. Interior contents clean. Contents include extensive list of members. Scarce. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co unknown
18390667London: Hamilton Adams & Co. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed edgeworn and discoloured. Inner hinges cracked or starting. 1839. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xxvii 592pp ads. . Hamilton, Adams & Co hardcover
1967050960Sussex: The Department of Publications Worldwide Scientology 1967. 62pp glossary. Stapled black pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover 'to the reader' slip tipped inside fornt cover prev owner name inside front cover. Scarce first printing of this Scientology booklet. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Department of Publications Worldwide (Scientology) Paperback
1806KO7703Philadelphia: Archibald Bartram 1806. A New Edition. HB. Full brown leather gilt lettering on spine 12 mo 311 pp. Early American imprints. Second series no. 10598. Translated from the French the first American edition of a work originally published anonymously in 1731. Huber 1695-1753 was a Swiss writer and Deist. Owners name on title page some notes in pencil ffep. Some foxing to preliminaries binding tight. Covers show minor edge wear chipping top and bottom of spine. Uncommon American edition. Book condition VG-. Archibald Bartram hardcover
192062786Paris: Librairie Chapelot 1920. 4to. 222 pp. Colour frontisp. 80 photo plates woodcut-engrave vignettes decorated initials w/ Indo-Persian motifs. Original colour-illustrated front softcover bound-in as second frontisp. into recent half-blue goatskin over marbled boards brown & gilt spine label minor repairs to corners on end leaves minor dustoiling to first and last leaves still a VG copy. First edition of this original French ethnological travel account through India and present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan between the Wars. Chauvelot 1879-1937 was a French Colonial administrator ethnologist travel writer and novelist who made extensive trips through South Asia East Asia and Southeast Asia in the early 20th Century. This was first published in English translation the next year in 1921. Librairie Chapelot, paperback
1936List2732Fresno California 1936. Approximately 7 x 30 inches. Some creasing fine contrast; stored in tube with residual shape; overall excellent condition. A photograph of the attendees of a yearly meeting of an affinity group for young Japanese-American Christians in California. The first YPCC retreats were held in 1920 with the help of the Japanese YMCA and YWCA and the group continued its meetings until about 1990. The retreats would include church services speakers discussion groups and recreation with the goal that "The rising generation of the Japanese should be awakened to the light of spiritual life."1 <br /> <br /> 1 Brad Shirakawa “The Domei NCJCCF and the Early Young People’s Christian Conference YPCC†accessed October 2 2024 https://lakesequoiaretreat.wordpress.com/histories/the-domei-ncjccf-and-the-early-young-peoples-christian-conference-ypcc/. unknown
1671r3781Lovanii Louvain: Hieronymi Nempaei. Cover worn. Fep chipped with inscriptions on verso. Darkening to page ends. Contents tight. 1671. Editio Ultima. Vellum cover with bevelled edges. 170mm x 100mm 7" x 4". 521pp. Title page vignette. Latin text. . Hieronymi Nempaei hardcover
66211Bonn 1729. . Erste Ausgabe des nur in kleiner Auflage erschienenen barocken Gebetbuches für den Kurfürsten Clemens August von Köln zusammengestellt kalligraphiert und gänzlich in Kupfer gestochen von seinem Hofkammerrat und Kabinetts-Sekretär Maria Joseph Clemens Kaukol. Es gilt als eines der schönsten kalligraphierten Bücher der Zeit und ist mit einer Fülle komplizierter Ornamente kleinen allegorischen und Wappen-Darstellungen und Miniaturansichten geziert. Mitunter verbergen sich in den Liniengeschlingen konkrete Anspielungen auf den Inhalt des Gebets: sie haben Ähnlichkeit mit Engels- oder Fledermausflügeln oder bilden eine prächtige Krone; auch die Kopfvignetten spiegeln oft das Gebetsthema wieder. - In einem hübschen grünen Lederband der Zeit mit reicher Goldprägung. Vorderdeckel mit vergoldeten Initialen "M.A.T." - Dieses Exemplar ohne das Imprimatur und die beiden Widmungsblätter Kaukols für den Kurfürsten die nur in der dem Kurfürsten vorbehaltenen Teilauflage enthalten waren. - Vorn eingeheftet zwei bedruckte 3 bzw. 4 x 6 cm große Blättchen: eine mit der Bestätigung "Examinado de doctrina cristiana" der Pfarrkirche San Gines in Madrid von 1825; ein weiterer mit dem handschriftlichen Namen Manuela Villalba der ihr bestätigt in der o.g. Kirche 1823 die Kommunion empfangen zu haben. - Vorderes Außengelenk unten mit kleiner Fehlstelle Insektenfraß. - Gutes sauberes Exemplar [Bonn, 1729]. unknown
1835r6069London: Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Light rubbing to cover. Later rebind with gilt device dated 1857 on front board. 1835. First Edition. Leather hardback cover. 220mm x 150mm 9" x 6". viii 476pp. . Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh hardcover
185034787Portland: Various 1850. Wraps. Good. Stitched wraps with titles on the front cover. 19 pamphlets dating from 1822 to 1850 non continuos. Condition range from fair to good. Original outer covers missing except one issue which are now laid inside the contents. Most minutes are untrimmed with several unopened or uncut pages. Stitching loose for a few issues resulting in detached title page and loose parts. Edges of the paper are brittle chipped and flaking. Light toning to the paper. Three minutes have old rubber institutional stamps from the Boston Athenaeum. <br /> <br /> Minutes of the General Conference include:<br /> <br /> 1828 Annual Meeting in Gorham. 24 pages. Last leave detached and chipped. Fair;<br /> 1829 Annual Meeting in Waldoborough. 19 pages 1 page blank. Title page detached. Stitching coming loose and contents are in parts. Fair;<br /> 1830 Annual Meeting in Winthrop. 24 pages. Paper lightly foxed. Period inscription written top of the title page. Good condition;<br /> 1831 Annual Meeting in Fryeburg. 27 pages 1 page blank. Previous owner name top of the title page. Good condition;<br /> 1832 Annual Meeting in Wiscasset. 32 pages. Stitching loose and contents are in parts. Previous owner name top of the title page. Fair;<br /> 1833 Annual Meeting in Portland. 24 pages. Good condition;<br /> 1834 Annual Meeting in Bath. 32 pages. Light scattered foxing. Period inscription written top of the title page. Good condition;<br /> 1837 Annual Meeting in North Falmouth. 23 pages 1 page blank. Red rubber stamp from Boston Athenaeum. Rubbed out pencil inscription front cover. Fair;<br /> 1838 Annual Meeting in Saco. 28 pages. Covers rubbed spotted. Fair;<br /> 1840 Annual Meeting in Hallowell. 24 pages. Good condition;<br /> 1841 Annual Meeting in Machias. 22 pages 1. Previous owner name top of the title page. Dup written in pencil top corner title page. Good condition;<br /> 1842 Annual Meeting in Portland. 24 pages. Pencil date and Dup written top of the title page. Good condition;<br /> 1843 Annual Meeting in Bangor. Disbound. 24 pages. Text trimmed. Title page foxed. Fair condition;<br /> 1844 Annual Meeting in Bath. 32 pages. Trimmed. Original brown outer wraps are detached flaking etc. The covers are laid inside. Fair condition;<br /> 1846 Annual Meeting in Augusta. 24 pages. Good condition;<br /> 1847 Annual Meeting in Portland. 27 pages 1 page blank. Rubbed out inscription title page. Red rubber institutional stamp from Boston Athenaeum. Fair condition;<br /> 1848 Annual Meeting in Bangor. 32 pages. Rubbed out inscription title page. Red rubber institutional stamp on the title page. Fair condition;<br /> 1849 Annual Meeting in Bath. 32 pages. Good condition;<br /> 1850 Annual Meeting in South Berwick. 24 pages. title page torn chipped toned. Fair condition. Various unknown
1843j5446Edinburgh: Printed by Peter Brown. Worn. Uncut at top edges. Threads weak. Fragile but held in a modern cloth covered case. 1843. First Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm 9" x 6". 20pp. . Printed by Peter Brown hardcover
1714c2395London: Printed for W Taylor and H Clements. G : in Good condition. Spine rubbed. Bookplate of J Stewart Robertson on pastedown and subsequent owners' inscriptions on fep. Text block age-toned but tight. 1714. First Edition. Leather hardback cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xiv 255pp appendix ads. . Printed for W Taylor and H Clements hardcover
17752487Mexico City: En la Imprenta de D. Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros 1775. About very good. 6118pp. Contemporary limp vellum. Fore-edges binding and text block darkened by smoke with markings creeping into margins of several leaves including title page. Light dampstaining along lower edge somewhat heaver on final leaves. An unusual Mexican religious primer with teachings based on the doctrines of St. Bonaventure but adapted to the practices of the Franciscan Order. The work was created for Franciscan novices and sets forth rules and orders for various offices duties and other responsibilities as well as standard beliefs and practices for the order. This is the second edition with the first having been printed over fifty years earlier in 1721. Both were likely printed in small numbers being intended for the rather limited audience of Franciscan novices. The present copy belonged to Henry Ward Poole the noted American engineer and collector of Mexicana with his manuscript initials and shelf number on the front pastedown. Scarce on the market with only one copy appearing in available sales records in the past thirty years and a fairly nice example with good provenance. En la Imprenta de D. Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros unknown
18255308Guadalajara: Imprinta del Ciudadano Mariano Rodriguez 1825. About very good. 2136pp. small quarto. Disbound. A scarce Guadalajara imprint that comprises a series of documents relating to a church-and-state kerfuffle between the local diocese and the government over the presence of a loyalty oath in the state constitution. The council of the diocese worried that having their clerics swear loyalty to the state would force them to ignore or abjure their vows to the church and therefore objected to the presence of the oath in the constitution. They also worry more broadly about the subjugation of church authority and finances to the power of the state should such an oath be administered to its members. OCLC locates only a small handful of copies. Imprinta del Ciudadano Mariano Rodriguez unknown
18175716Mexico City: Imprenta de D. Juan Bautista de Arizpe 1817. Very good. 210pp. Miniature 75 mm. Self wrappers stitched. Trimmed crookedly minor soiling. A charming miniature devotional comprised of a hymn followed by a prayer and a brief oration. The hymn is attributed to Manuel Sartorio. We locate one copy in OCLC at the University of Virginia. Imprenta de D. Juan Bautista de Arizpe unknown
18246186Puebla 1824. Very good. 46pp. 16mo. Contemporary limp vellum wrappers marbled pastedowns. Upper right corner a bit dinged otherwise very light wear to wraps. Light toning and occasional small patches of staining internally. Small attractively printed prayer book for the veneration of Maris Santisima de la Luz for her feast day July 2. The work comprises various prayers acts of contrition and instructions for completing the ritual and also prints a woodcut of the Mary and the baby Jesus surrounded by angels the typical depiction of this version of the Virgin Mary. Not in OCLC and apparently unrecorded. unknown
18146187Mexico: Mariano de Zuñiga y Ontivero 1814. Good. 13pp. 16mo. Contemporary limp vellum wrappers. Some creasing and wear to wraps. Moderate to heavy dust soiling in lower right quadrant of most leaves. Small contemporary ink stamp on final leaf recto. Small prayer book for the first day of each month "consecrated to God in veneration of his divine providence." A woodcut of the Trinity is printed on title page verso. The work was printed several times over the years in colonial Mexico but the present edition is quite scarce with OCLC locating only one copy at the JCB. A well-loved copy with obvious signs of regular use. Mariano de Zuñiga y Ontivero unknown
18255684Queretaro 1825. Still very good. 42035pp. Contemporary sheep spine gilt leather label. Moderate wear to corners and edges; boards and spine scuffed. Occasional minor staining and foxing. Accomplished in a small but highly legible script. An extensive manuscript compilation of Catholic doctrines teachings and sermons assembled in Mexico during the early 19th century. The author is unidentified but an engraved indulgence dated 1804 from the Colegio de Santa Cruz in Queretaro is tipped onto the manuscript title page verso leading to the supposition that this work originated at that date and location. The indulgence bears an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Latin phrase "Columba Mea in Forminibus Petrae" and promises various lengths of indulgence from several of the bishops of colonial Mexico. The initial 115 pages contains over thirty entries comprising the author's lessons on church doctrine and other teachings on subjects such as faith hope charity neighborly love marriage and much else. Each entry is headed by a short biblical quotation from which the text takes its prompt. The remaining 340 pages contain over fifty original sermons on a wide variety of topics each also as is traditional with a Bible passage as its inspiration. A detailed table of contents follows the title page. The final four entries are in an altered hand and were added later with last being dated "Zalapa 1825." A wealth of original Mexican Catholic teaching in manuscript. unknown
17935161Guadalaxara: En la Imprenta de Don Mariano Valdes Tellez Giron 1793. About very good. 6xxviii2492pp. Small quarto. Original plain wrappers stitched as issued. Light dampstaining to wrappers slightly affecting gutter margin of outer text leaves. Some worming primarily in the gutter but affecting a few words of text. The first production of the first press in Guadalajara the fourth city in Mexico to have a printing press. The work commemorates the funeral obsequies of Fray Antonio Alcalde Barriga the Dominican Bishop of Guadalajara. Alcalde was a prominent preacher and minister in Spain for three decades until King Charles III sent him to Mexico in 1763; he became the Bishop of Guadalajara in 1771 and served in that capacity until his death in 1792. Following his arrival in the city he helped to establish the Hospital San Miguel and the Universidad de Guadalajara and dedicated much of his time and resources to the construction and restoration of churches and schools in the diocese. This book begins with a Latin eulogy given by José Apolonari de Vizcarra the rector of the seminary in Guadalajara who had been ordained and appointed by Alcalde. The second major component of this work is the Spanish-language sermon that was pronounced at the funeral by Juan José Moreno y Pizano the canon of the city cathedral and another Alcalde appointment. The final section is composed of copies of documents illustrative of the generosity and goodness that characterized the bishop's life including several decrees and a long detailed list of his gifts to various monasteries convents and schools. The volume ends with a sizable indeed somewhat embarrassing list of errata for the eulogy and sermon.<br /> <br /> The first printer of Guadalajara and the publisher of the present work was Mariano Valdés Tellez Giron. Sometime before 1792 city authorities and well-places private individuals in Guadalajara began to solicit among the printers of Mexico City to attract one of them to their growing metropolis. At first there were no takers but eventually Manuel Antonio Valdés the editor of the Gazeta de México accepted their offer and guarantees and sent his son Mariano to fill the position. The father ordered new type and equipment from Spain and all of the necessary permissions for establishing the first press of Guadalajara were in place by February 1792 but Valdés Tellez Giron did not arrive until the beginning of the next year. As with all first presses the available work was less than promised or envisioned but Valdés persisted and probably did much more job printing than book and broadside work. His presswork is characterized by neatness and good page design.<br /> <br /> "The first book printed in Guadalajara. Considerable biographical information of the Bishop and details of his Mexican achievements are given by Father Juan Joseph Moreno in this the funeral sermon for the Bishop" - Nebenzahl. The importance and scarcity of this work are underscored by its facsimile reproduction in a limited edition of fifty copies in 1982. No examples appear in available U.S. sales records since a 1988 Swann auction.<br /> Beristain I p.303. Medina Guadalajara 1. Palau 79207. Nebenzahl 4:61. Sabin 29025 & 22362. En la Imprenta de Don Mariano Valdes Tellez Giron unknown
18924468Puebla: Reimpreso por Pedro N. Alarcon 1892. Good plus. 42011pp. 12mo. Original quarter sheep and pebbled cloth spine blind tooled and gilt lettered. Extensive contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper verso. Light edge wear spine and boards well rubbed. Initial gathering coming loose. Moderate tanning and scattered foxing. Second edition after the first of 1835 of this extensive bilingual catechism on the "principal mysteries of our holy faith." The question-and-answer text printed in Spanish and Nahuatl on facing pages provides basic explanations of the central tenets and practices of Catholicism. The present copy bears an inscription from Mexican theologian and polymath Agustin Rivera to a friend and fellow teacher at the Liceos de Padre Guerra in Lagos de Moreno Bernardo Reyna. Rivera published many religious historical and pedagogical texts in Lagos many for use in his school and on the subjects of native culture and history. A substantial late 19th-century Nahuatl language imprint with an interesting association. Reimpreso por Pedro N. Alarcon unknown
17106230Mexico City: Por las Herederos de la Viuda de Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio 1710. Good. 7pp. on two folding sheets. Small folio. Previously folded. Stitch holes moderate dampstaining a few small chips at edges. Moderate wear at horizontal fold causing some loss and resulting in tape repair to final leaf. Untrimmed in a modern quarter calf and pebbled cloth folder. A rare admission certificate to a congregation in Mexico City founded by Pope Alexander VII around 1665 to 1667 in honor of the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. It includes a plenary indulgence and lists the responsibilities of congregants which include communion at least once a month nightly prayers teaching Christian doctrine to servants and more. This example printed in 1710 is made out for a new female member Clara María Ximenez de los Cobos by secretary Joseph de Zertuche on 1 July 1722 and bears his signature. Attractively printed with a woodcut of Xavier a double ornamental border and large decorative initial. Not in Medina or OCLC. Por las Herederos de la Viuda de Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio unknown
18074567Mexico City 1807. Very good. Letterpress broadside illustrated with large engraving 12 x 8.25 inches. Minor wear and foxing engraving printed slightly off register. An evocative and rare Mexican broadside relating the story of Italian Jesuit Francesco de Geronimo 1642-1716. The portrait was executed by Francisco Gordillo also the chief assayer of the Mexico City mint. This broadside was produced the year following Francesco's beatification in 1806; he was later canonized as a saint in 1839. This "Very Light Sketch of the Life of Francisco" includes a biographical history of Geronimo as well as a physical description and information on his beatification and burial. <br /> <br /> "St. Francis wanted to be sent to preach in the Far East but the Jesuit authorities wanted him to stay in Naples which was the centre of his apostolic labours. He worked through the 'Oratorio delle Missioni' an organization of working men which functioned as a sickness benefit and funeral society. His preaching was famous: sometimes he would bring a skull to the pulpit at others scourge his bare shoulders with an iron chain until they bled. He established hostels for reformed prostitutes and their children. His beatification postponed by the suppression of the Jesuit order finally took place in 1806 and his canonisation in 1839" - New Catholic Encyclopedia.<br /> <br /> Rare at auction and with only five copies in OCLC at the California State Library Boston College University of Pennsylvania the JCB Mathes copy and the Wellcome Library. unknown
18166178Mexico City: Typis Sacrorum Librorum 1816. Very good. 24224pp. Quarto. Contemporary marbled calf spine gilt ruled with leather label marbled endpapers. Head of spine rubbed scattered scuffing to boards minor edge wear. Light even tanning and scattered faint foxing. A scarce breviary for the liturgical readings and offices to be performed on Catholic feast days across the calendar year printed in Mexico in 1816. The title indicates that included here are the rites as they are performed in Spain and that the present work contains revisions and additions recently mandated by the Pope. The printing is accomplished attractively in two columns with interesting ornaments and drop capitals used throughout and is housed in plain but well preserved contemporary calf binding. The title page bears an engraving of the Virgin of Guadalupe printed in red. We locate six copies of this text in OCLC of which only two are in U.S. institutions at Columbia and Texas A&M. A nice copy. Typis Sacrorum Librorum unknown
17604694Mexico 1760. Very good plus. 3pp. on a bifolium completed in manuscript. Contemporary ink signatures and original paper seal at bottom left of first leaf recto; extensive manuscript notations on second leaf. Previously folded; light edge wear and creasing. Minor tanning and soiling. An attractively illustrated and scarce example of a confraternity patent for a religious order in mid-18th century Mexico. This bifolium confers membership to and lists the benefits for those inducted into the congregation of the Parish of San Sebastian and was filled out and given to a woman Teresa Ruiz on October 25 1761. The first leaf recto is attractively printed containing a skillful engraved illustration of the Virgin Mary accompanied by St. Joseph and St. Sebastian on each side with Jesus holding the Eucharist in a cloud over head and decorated with numerous detailed printers' ornaments. The text on this page prints the principal benefits of membership which include assistance with all burial rites upon death twenty-five pesos paid to surviving family following the same and inclusion in all masses said for the congregation as well as in all graces and indulgenced received by it. The interior two pages print a list of sixteen indulgences conferred upon the congregation by Pope Benedict XIV. Most interestingly three manuscript notes each dated September 1807 record that the female recipient of the patent passed away earlier that month in the Convento de Jesus Maria that she received burial rites in accordance with her membership and that twenty-five pesos was paid out by the treasury of the congregation. Scarce we locate one other copy of this patent at the University of Pennsylvania; the Newberry hold a copy of a later edition with a different illustration. A very interesting document of popular piety and local religious organization in 18-century Mexico. unknown
17704695Mexico 1770. Good plus. 3pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Completed in manuscript with additional later manuscript annotations. Some edge wear and staining. Light tanning and scattered foxing. An attractively illustrated and scarce example of a confraternity patent for a religious order in mid-18th century Mexico. This bifolium confers membership to and lists the benefits for those inducted into the congregation of the Parish of San Sebastian and was filled out and given to Sebastian Fabian Mendoza on September 29 1770. The first leaf recto is attractively printed containing a skillful engraved illustration of the Virgin Mary accompanied by St. Joseph and St. Sebastian on each side with Jesus holding the Eucharist in a cloud over head and decorated with numerous detailed printers' ornaments. The text on this page prints the principal benefits of membership which include assistance with all burial rites upon death twenty-five pesos paid to surviving family following the same and inclusion in all masses said for the congregation as well as in all graces and indulgenced received by it. The interior two pages print a list of sixteen indulgences conferred upon the congregation by Pope Benedict XIV. Most interestingly several manuscript notes on the second leaf of the bifolium each dated from 1807 record that the recipient of the patent passed away earlier that month in September that he received burial rites in accordance with his membership and that twenty-five pesos was paid out by the treasury of the congregation. Scarce we locate one other copy of this patent at the University of Pennsylvania; the Newberry holds a copy of a later edition with a different illustration. A very interesting document of popular piety and local religious organization in 18-century Mexico. unknown
