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1900174874Xi'an China: c.1900. China's "Christian Rosetta Stone" A rubbing of the most famous document of Chinese Christianity. When rediscovered the Nestorian Stele transformed understanding of the cross-cultural history of Tang dynasty China. "The discovery of this monument is what made Westerners aware of the presence of Christianity in China prior to the mission of the Franciscans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and those of the Jesuits" Nicolini-Zani p. 117. The Nestorian stele was carved in 781 and stands at almost three metres tall. The Chinese inscription in the calligraphy of a local official Lu Xiuyan describes how Christians arrived at the Tang capital of Xi'an in 635 and with official permission founded churches. The stele also introduces in Chinese and Syriac some of the community's senior clergy and the present state of the Nestorian church. "Erecting a stone monument to describe commend and propagate its teachings was no small undertaking for the Tang Christian community. Putting up stone monuments was an expensive exercise because of the price of the stone and the fee of the expert artisan who engraved the text. The monument itself makes an important statement about the place of Christianity within Tang society" Nicolini-Zani pp. 120-1. In 845 Christianity was banned by Emperor Wuzong and the stele was buried. Rediscovered by Chinese antiquarians around 1625 it brought to light a lost dimension to China's history and translations soon appeared in Jesuit sinological writings including Kircher's China Monumentis 1667 which includes the first printed reproduction of the text. The stone now stands at the Beilin Museum in Xi'an and is listed among the small number of protected antiquities that will never be exhibited abroad. Rubbings from the original are no longer permitted. Provenance: the theologian and sociologist Y. Y. Tsu 1886-1986 also known as Chu Yu-Yu. Born in Shanghai Tsu studied at St John's College Shanghai and at Columbia where he was one of the first Chinese students of sociology to study abroad. In 1912 he became Professor of Sociology at St John's and later served as religious director of the Peking Union Medical College. "In 1940 he was consecrated an Episcopal bishop in Shanghai and was named Assistant Bishop of Hong Kong and Bishop of Kunming where he began his Burma Road work. Bishop Tsu was known. as the 'Bishop of the Burma Road' because of his efforts to befriend Allied troops traveling the international highway that ran through his district" obituary in New York Times. In 1931 Tsu held a visiting lectureship at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California. This rubbing was gifted to the institution by Tsu and displayed there during the 1930s. It is regularly mentioned as a point of interest in contemporary tourist guides to the state. Rubbing from stone on multiple paper sheets arranged soon after execution to form 120 x 320 mm curved headpiece 100 x 588 mm title and 1825 x 870 text body mounted on four long pieces of paper joined to form area of 2338 x 958 mm edges of mount reinforced with old decorative white paper. Rubbing generally sharp and legible a few surface blemishes sectional joins expertly reinforced in places on verso: a very good example of an imposing piece. Matteo Nicolini-Zani The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China 2022. unknown
1880183225China: c.1880. China on Thomas Hardy's doorstep Labels on both faces indicate that this artefact of missionary printing was owned by Henry Joseph Moule 1825-1904 a close friend of Thomas Hardy and the brother of two prominent China missionaries. Moule was the first curator of the Dorset County Museum where this woodblock was perhaps displayed to a curious public. Moule's seven brothers included George Evans Moule 1828-1912 consecrated the first Bishop of Mid-China in 1880 and Arthur Evans Moule 1838-1916 who was active in Ningbo and Shanghai and who also wrote prolifically on Chinese history and current affairs. The primary face has the text of the fourth to tenth commandments as given in Deuteronomy and the carving employs a songti character style with serifs. The largest of the labels reads "Block from which a page of a book has been printed; viz. part of the Ten Commandments. Printing is a much older art in China than in Europe but always was and is performed as by the pre-Gutenberg European printers viz. from wood-cut blocks. A rough block with wood-engraving tools accompanies this block; and also an inking brush and a printing pad. The press is used China." Moule is named on a small label on the reverse. Single wooden block 165 x 210 mm engraved in 8-columns on primary face one column of characters and page subdivisions on secondary face 3 manuscript labels the largest covering upper-left quadrant of primary face. Contemporary blue pencil note on secondary face. General signs of handling carved character distinct: very good. unknown
1896184604Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press 1896. China in your hand First edition rare in commerce commercial records showing only one other copy in the last two decades. The publication was effusively welcomed by the Chinese and religious periodical press for it satisfied long-standing demand for a comprehensive and easily accessible survey. The contents offer textual and statistical descriptions of the state of missionary work in different Chinese provinces and cities alongside articles by Timothy Richard and other missionaries on secret societies and on Buddhism Taoism and Islam. Part II the survey of recent progress is subdivided into the dozens of Western groups proselytizing in the country by century's end. Emphasis is placed on educational and medical work and where applicable the operations of printing presses. Octavo 245 x 160 mm. With 2 large colour folding maps 12 full-page maps printed in black and red 3 folding tables tables in text errata slipped tipped in facing p. 335. Contemporary dark red half roan raised bands spine tooled and lettered in gilt black cloth sides marbled sides. Ex-Central Baptist Theological Seminary Kansas City with bookplates title-page ink stamp and traces of removed record card holders. Binding worn and recently repaired folding map at page 56 now detached from stub and repaired with tissue a few ink marks in printed area other maps well preserved: very good. hardcover
1891184661London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1891. Used on missionary service in Penang A scarce missionary imprint: an early edition of the first New Testament in the Hokkien dialect of Xiamen and southern Fujian province. This was the copy of Daniel Davies Moore among the first Methodist missionaries in Penang which had an established community of Hokkien speakers. The translation was the work of four members of the English Presbyterian Mission: William Macgregor William S. Swanson Hugh Cowie and James L. Maxwell. The first edition was printed in Scotland for private circulation in 1873 and the same plates were used to produce editions in 1880s and 1890s. Moore 1856-1946 "left Canada for Singapore in April 1891 as a foreign missionary. There he was commissioned by the newly established Methodist Church in Singapore to start work in Penang for the English-speaking community. In July 1891 he started the first English service at the Penang Town Hall. The following month the first sacramental service for eight people was conducted at the rented residence of the missionaries at Carnavon Street" Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia. His ownership inscription "Davies Moore Penang Dec. 7th 1892" is on the first blank verso. Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth spine lettered in gilt and ruled in black boards blocked in black yellow coated endpapers edges sprinkled red. Twentieth-century bookseller's ink stamp on front free endpaper. Binding worn especially at spine ends and joints spine repaired with adhesive a few stains internally: just about very good. Darlow & Moule 2771. hardcover
182924466Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1829. Fifth Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full brown calf spines in six compartments separated by raised bands gilt lettering and borders on burgundy labels in two compartments floral gilt tooling in remainder gilt and blind-stamped borders on covers all edges red marbled endpapers gilt dentelles. Gilbert Burnet 1643 1715 was a Scottish theologian and historian and Bishop of Salisbury Sarum. He was fluent in Dutch French Latin Greek and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric a preacher and an academic as well as a writer and historian. He was associated with the Whig party. In the mid-1670s a French translation of Nicholas Sanders' De origine et progressu schismatio Anglicani libri tres 1585 appeared. Sanders attacked the English Reformation as a political act carried on by a corrupt king. Several of Burnet's friends wished him to publish a rebuttal of the work so in 1679 his first volume of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England was published. This covered the reign of Henry VIII; the second volume 1681 covered the reign of Elizabeth and the Elizabethan Religious Settlement; the third volume 1714 consisted of corrections and additional material.1 His literary reputation was greatly enhanced by this publication. The Parliament of England voted thanks for Burnet after the publication of the first volume and in 1680 the University of Oxford awarded Burnet the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the advice of William Sancroft Archbishop of Canterbury. For over a century this was the standard reference work in the field although Catholics disputed some of its content. Thomas Babington Macaulay describes Burnet in relation to the king he served William of Orange: "When the doctor took liberties which was not seldom the case his patron became more than usually cold and sullen and sometimes uttered a short dry sarcasm which would have struck dumb any person of ordinary assurance. In spite of such occurrences however the amity between this singular pair continued with some temporary interruptions till it was dissolved by death. Indeed it was not easy to wound Burnet's feelings. His self-complacency his animal spirits and his want of tact were such that though he frequently gave offence he never took it." - History of England Vol. 2 Ch 7. . Armorial bookplates of Walter Hamilton Moberly on feps prize inscription in Latin on ffep of Volume One otherwise unmarked tight square and clean. All six volumes of the text but laking the seventh Index volume. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Oxford University Press hardcover
1873187497Iang-Ceo "Yangzhou": Ie-Su Tang In-Tih 1873. First edition of this scarce Protestant missionary imprint of which we have traced only one other copy issued for the use of Westerners proselytizing in Yangzhou and across Jiangsu province. The text includes a corresponding English-language index of first lines. This volume was owned by James Markwick a missionary with the China Inland Mission in Yangzhou and has his Christmas Day 1878 ownership inscription on the front pastedown and title page. Markwick has made several annotations and marks internally including a table of "corresponding numbers of hymns in this and the Ning-po hymn book." The China Inland Mission established a station in the region in the 1860s. Copies were issued bound in cloth or in the case of the other known example our stock number 187498 in the Chinese style with wrappers. Small octavo. Original blue cloth yellow coated endpapers. Binding worn but sturdy light foxing internally: very good. hardcover
1848187499New York: Lane & Tippett 1848. First edition of this informative handbook to Fuzhou the newest station of the Methodist Episcopal Mission compiled for the use of recruits to the cause and for Sunday-school education back home. The text includes extracts from a report by the Royal Navy officer Captain Richard Collinson 1811-1883 who surveyed the Fujian coast after the First Opium War and six chapters of material drawing on the writings of the British missionary George Smith later the first bishop of Hong Kong. Provenance: Inscribed by Robert Samuel Maclay 1824-1907 one of the early American presbyterian missionaries in Fuzhou "To Josefa Gabri from R.S.M. Fuh-chau China Dec. 25th 1849." As described in the preface Maclay and a few others from the Methodist Episcopal Mission left New York for China on 15 October 1847. The recipient is untraced but was likely a member of the Dominican Order which also had a presence in Fujian province. Small octavo. Frontispiece showing the Chinese junk Keying illustrations in text. Original black vertically combed cloth blocked in blind spine lettered in gilt. Contemporary pencil annotation on p. 169; old pencilled number on front pastedowns. Wear at spine ends light staining on front cover contents moderately toned and foxed: very good. Not in Cordier or Löwendahl. hardcover
1873187498Iang-Ceo "Yangzhou": Ie-Su Tang In-Tih 1873. First edition of this scarce Protestant missionary imprint of which we have traced only one other copy issued for the use of Westerners proselytizing in Yangzhou and across Jiangsu province. The text includes a corresponding English-language index of first lines. This copy was owned by Sarah Fanny Rossier later Clarke d.1883 a missionary with the China Inland Mission from the mid-1870s and has her signature on the title page. She was the organization's first Swiss member. In 1880 she relocated to Guizhou becoming the first Western woman to live in the province. Copies were issued bound in wrappers or in the case of the other known example our stock number 187497 in cloth. Duodecimo. Original blue wrappers xianzhuang stitching. Light sunning and marking to wrappers: very good. hardcover
18774035St. Louis: W. S. Bryan Publisher. 1877. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 1879 later printing including appendix on Brigham Young. Last few pages of appendix are missing last page present is page 400. Small hole in front free endpaper and half-title page. Text appears clean. Rebound in rust colored cloth gilt stamping on spine. Original decorative cloth mounted on new cloth. New marbled endpapers. ; Six Guns 1311; 400 pages . W. S. Bryan, Publisher hardcover
186018288<p>Good HC no DJ. Red sand-grain cloth over bevel edged boards; gilt stamped frame enclosing gilt titles and pictorial designs on the front cover; all edges gilt; pale yellow end papers. Clean front cover and spine; rear cover has faint drink ring and several small dark stains; light rubbing at fore corners and spine ends; boards just exposed at front cover fore corners; tightly bound and square in case; owner name and institutional stamp on front free end paper; light clean interior but 4 plates show some damp staining at upper fore corners 2 - 3 inches as well as on their tissue guards. Oblong 4to; 67 pp; 10 tissue-guarded chromolithographs. Cf OCLC #19679030.</p> London: Yapp and Hawkins; no date Ca. 1860 hardcover
182425217021032Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Green C and W B Whiiaker London 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I dated 1824 on title-page but preface dated January 1826 volume II dated 1825 on title-page. Matching bindings with quarter leather marbled board and marbled end-papers. Leather joints are cracked but binding is sound rubbed cover edges previous owners' names clean slightly darkened pages and plates. All plates are present and show the following churches some churches are shown on more than one plate: Volume I: Buckinghamshire - Stoke Pogis Church; Cambridgeshire - Cambridge Great St. Mary's and Holy Trinity; Essex - Borley Lambourne Thaxted Theydon Nount; Gloucestershire - Camden Cirencester Tewkesbury; Herefordshire - Ledbury Leominster; Hertfordshire - Sabridgeworth St Albans Abbey Church; Kent - Ashford Church; Norfolk - Ingham North Walsham South Lopham Worstead Yarmouth. Volume II: Northamptonshire - Bulwick Kettering; Oxfordshire - Oxford All Saints St Peter's In the East St. Mary Magdalen and St. Marys Whitney; Shropshire - Shrewsbury Abbey Church; Halrs Owen; Suffolk - Lavenham Church Lowestoffe Melford Sudbury St. Gregory's; Surrey - Croydon; Warwickshire - Stratford-Upon-Avon; Wiltshire - Marlborough; Worcestershire - Evesham All Saints Great Malvern Little Malvern. 2-volume set complete. Contains black and white plates full page illustrations. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25217021032. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Green, C and W B Whiiaker hardcover
181970224081096Printed for John Lepard London 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Small thick volume with marked brown covers with long-time black tape over spine sound binding foxing on end-papers and prelims. Uncut untrimmed pages are a little darkened at the edges and have occasional light foxing but are otherwise clean. Appears to be First ediiion containing these three translations together. viii 676. No dust jacket as published. Book plates and/or stamps from Ampleforth Library. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70224081096. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Printed for John Lepard hardcover
188070218121057J S Virtue & Co. Ltd London 1880. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full leather covers with banded spine. Volume has been recased using original covers with original spine laid on. New linen joints and strengthened hinges. Ornate gilt and blind decoration. Bright gilt text block edges. Decorated main title and two plain sub-titles. Blank illustrated family record pages prior to title. Text in two parallel columns plus two parallel notes columns and two parallel columns of notes under the text. Text and notes are framed. Contains very many black and white engravings mostly with protractive tissue sheets. Leather is lightly rubbed and is scuffed at corners. Binding is sound. Clean marbled end-papers with light wear at edges. Light foxing in margins of text pages. Tissue protection leaves are foxed plates have foxing in margins. Packed weight approx. 11kg. One volume of the 1-volume set. No dust jacket as published. Undated by publisher. Estimated date only. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: over 4 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70218121057. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is much heavier than 1kg and may incur significant additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. J S Virtue & Co. Ltd hardcover
18431861Berlin 1843. Fair. Original 1843 printing text in German. 16 pages with no covers or boards tape bound at the spine. Ex-Library from two seminary libraries with a stamp to the front indicating withdrawal and a rear stamp with the library collection written in black ink. Heavily warn and soiled on the outward facing pages with crinkling and staining resulting from the lack of covers. Minor foxing. The corners and edges of the pages are worn with paper loss at the top of the last pages not impacting the text. Last few pages are dog-eared. The paper is clothlike and a bit limp. Translated loosely to English this piece is the "Sermon at the ceremonial funeral of our immortal reformer Dr. Martin Luther's held on February 22 1546 in the Castle Church in Wittenberg by Bugenhagen." <br/><br/> hardcover
1850A50351Nashville TN: Nashville Christian Advocate. Very Good-. 1850. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Full leather with a black leather label. The book is in Very Good- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping rubbing and wear. There is rubbing to the spine joints and cover edges especially the front foredge of the cover. The rear spine joint has started to crack in two places. The text pages are generally clean and bright. Several pages have toning and there is scattered foxing throughout. The endpapers have noticeable foxing and pencilled previous owners notations. There is a pasted on 'Note' on the rear pastedown page. "Baptism is a Christian rite of admission and adoption almost invariably with the use of water into Christianity. The synoptic gospels recount that John the Baptist baptised Jesus. Baptism is considered a sacrament in most churches and as an ordinance in others. Baptism is also called christening although some reserve the word "christening" for the baptism of infants. It has also given its name to the Baptist churches and denominations. The usual form of baptism among the earliest Christians involved the candidate's immersion either totally submerged completely under the water or partially standing or kneeling in water while water was poured on him or her. John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptising suggests immersion: " from Wikipedia . Nashville Christian Advocate hardcover
184413118111076Novello London 1844. Novello's Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half leather with worn marbled boards. Gilt lettering and bands on spine. Corners and edges of boards are well worn and scuffed. Spine is worn with some loss at spine ends. Binding is intact with just the occasional page slightly loose. Binding contemporary to publication. "BASS CANTORIS" has been hand written on the front cover in black ink. Plate printed music is clean and legible with very occasional hand written annotation paper is slightly darkened and foxed. Previous owners bookplate F. A. Gardner on the inside front cover has been crossed out in ink with gift note inscription on facing end-paper "Presented to St. Michael's College Tenbury by Aurthur H D Prendergast Hon: Fellow November 1901". Dedication page to Queen Victoria at front has stamped name " Harward Turner". Index at rear. 166 2. One volume of the 5-volume set. No dust jacket as published. Undated by publisher. Dated by reference to British Library catalogue. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13118111076. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Novello hardcover
184413118111077Novello London 1844. Novello's Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half leather with worn marbled boards. Gilt lettering and bands on spine. Corners and edges of boards are well worn and scuffed. Spine is worn and has some loss spine cover has lifted from the lower half of the spine. Binding is sound however the front end-paper is missing and the dedication page is detached. Binding contemporary to publication. "TENOR DECANI" has been hand written on the front cover in black ink. Plate printed music is clean and legible with very occasional hand written annotation paper is slightly darkened and foxed. Previous owners bookplate F. A. Gardner on the inside front cover has been crossed out in ink. Dedication page to Queen Victoria at front has stamped name " Harward Turner". Index at rear. 164 2. One volume of the 5-volume set. No dust jacket as published. Undated by publisher. Dated by reference to British Library catalogue. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13118111077. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. This book is heavier than 1kg and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. Novello hardcover
1815050146Newcastle upon Tyne England: Mackenzie and Dent 1815. Full Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 476pp. 18 engravings 1 folded map collated with Directions to the Binder p46 at the end of text. Prev owner name inked to front pastedown dated 1817. Penciled notation to rear pastedown. Full leather binding showing wear to corners and edges. Scuff and scratches to surface of boards. Raised bands. Repair to binding with original spine. Binding square and sound. Quarto. 1815 printing. Full title page text: "The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Containing A full accurate and instructive History of the various Transactions in the Life of our Glorious Redeemer From His taking upon himself our sinful Nature to his Crucifixion Resurrection from the Dead and glorious Ascension into Heaven Together with The Lives Transactions and Sufferings of the Holy Evangelists Apostles and Others who have seals the great Truth of Christianity with their Blood; including the Patriarchs and the Transactions of John the Baptist the great Forerunner of The Messiah to which is added A Full Defence of the Christian Religion in which the Evidences of Christianity and clearly stated the New Testament proved to be genuine and the Religion of the GREAT REDEEMER of MANKIND truly Divine. The whole intended to set forth the Principles of pure and undefiled religion in the Knowledge of the Deity and Atonement of Christ Justification Purity of Heart and Holiness of Life. <br/> <br/> Mackenzie and Dent hardcover
182870224111069Lefevre Rue de L'eperon Paris 1828. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Pages 434.436 and 438 of volume XI are very faintly printed. xlvii 425 615 580 555 645 478 555 389 504 429 438 468 724. 13-volume set complete. Text is in French and Latin. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70224111069. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Lefevre, Rue de L'eperon hardcover
1853BOOKS027148INY:: Pudney & Russell. Original blind stamped green cloth binding. G unmarked. 1853. ISBN: Hardback; corners bumped corner cloth frayed; a few cover spots; a. ISBN: few leaves dogeared. x 174 pp. Catalogs: ANGLICAN. Keywords: ANGLICAN EPISCOPAL EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHURCH HISTORY. Pudney & Russell hardcover
183070621071046John Harris St Paul's Church-Yard London 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Quarter leather with marbled boards and black spine with gilt lettering and simple decoration. All plates are present and placed at pages: frontis 20 62 87 113 133 155 170 208 223 233 246 267 288 321 350 374 and 403. Rubbed overs with scuffed corners bbed leather over joints. Sound binding. Hand-written date pencilled on inside of front cover July 16 1882 and previous owner's name and date Agnes Gertrude Coates June 5th 144 in ink on reverse of free front end-paper. Top of title-page has been cut away. Light foxing to prelims. Packed weight approx. 3kg. Contains black and white plates full page illustrations. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70621071046. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. John Harris, St Paul's Church-Yard hardcover
1819000010310Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1819. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo. 14.5 cm x 8.5 cm. Unpaginated. Mid-nineteenth century brown morocco with gold borders and decorations on the boards spine in five compartments with decorations and lettering in gold gold decorations on the turn-ins; all edges gilt. Coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. Griffiths 245. An early ninteenth century printing of an Oxford Book of Common Prayer. A beautifully bound example. A tiny split to the bottom of the rear joint; leaves show a contemporary gift inscription and a touch of foxing. Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood hardcover
1845DEMO000588ISt.Louis. MO: Daniel Davis 1845. First edition. printed wrappers. Good. Litho:Design for Jubilee Col. 8vo 27 pages printed wrappers dampstained frontispiece nicked at top edge slightly affecting the print. Rare. <br/><br/>This is likely one of the 500 copies cited by Graff 3379 as being done for the Bishop's personal use. Byrd 988 cites this frontispiece "Design for Jubilee College" as appearing in JOURNAL OF THE NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 1845. It is signed in the plate "Upjohn Del." and "G. Hayward 1 Platt St. NY" Byrd's note is uncertain. Neither Byrd nor Graff describe a copy with the frontispiece in this copy. Illustrated by Litho: Design for Jubilee College. Sabin 12190. Daniel Davis unknown
1874AQ18359Athens: S. K. Vlastou 1874. 6 183pp 1. With eight engraved plates. Title and imprint transliterated from the Greek. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco. Lightly rubbed. Book-label of Caterina to FEP internally clean and crisp. A handsomely bound copy of an illustrated Athens-printed translation into Greek from an unidentified English source of select Bible tales including; the creation of Adam and Eve the building of the ark by Noah and Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. . 8vo. S. K. Vlastou unknown
18663859New York: Carlton & Porter 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8.5"x6". 544pp. ads. 1/4 bound in leather and marbled paper-covered boards giltstamped spine with 4 raised band. Edgewear to paper-covered areas heavily rubbed. Conditioned leather in VG condition with several dampstains. Textblock edges toned and foxed. Front hinge cracked starting sewn binding intact. "Melinda Hamline" in pencil to ffep. Obituary and handwritten letter signed by L. L. Hamline glued to rear endpapers. Carlton & Porter hardcover
