Philosophy & Religion Books

Cooperstown: Stereotyped and Published by H. & E. Phinney, 1838. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 2 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches. 2 ffep + 322 + 2 rfep. Bound with: Watts, Isaac. Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Three Books. I. Collected from the Scriptures. II. Composed on Divine Subjects. III. Prepared for the Lord's Supper, Cooperstown: Stereotyped and Published by H. & E. Phinney. Hymns with separate title page. Scattered foxing. All page edges colored yellow. Bound in contemporary full light brown leather with unusually extensive gilt tooling on spine and borders of both covers which are lightly worn. A very unusual early American imprint in a fine American binding.

1678 1ed Lively Oracles Given Allestree Bible Reading & Interpretation Oxford

"The Lively Oracles Given to Us" is a 17th-century treatise attributed to Richard Allestree. Like other Allestree works, this work focuses on the importance of Holy Scriptures in Christian living. It also provides context of how the Bible was read and interpreted in the earliest times of the church. Allestree concludes this work with a section on how to cautiously read the Bible.
Item number: #12191
Price: $499
ALLESTREE, Richard
The lively oracles given to us, or, The Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture
At the Theater in Oxford: 1678. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[12], 226, [2]
· References: Arber's Term cat, I 329; Wing A 1149; Madan 3169
· Provenance: Handwritten – Wm. Maxwell
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in (18.5cm x 12cm)
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1701 Life of Pope Sixtus V Gregorio Leti Counter Reformation ROME Vatican 2v

"While I live, every criminal must die"
– Pope Sixtus V

A rare biography of the life of Pope Sixtus V by the famous Gregorio Leti. Leti was known to possess an 'anti-papal' view when it came to his historical writings, however, "The Life of Pope Sixtus V" was widely read and translated throughout Europe during the 17th- and 18th-century. Even though Leti was called 'inexact' by the Catholic Encyclopedia and 'inaccurate' by the Lutheran church, his historical importance and relevance is well-known and unprecedented. (Mosheim, 194).
Pope Sixtus V was revered for his role in eradicating and decreasing corruption and disorder throughout Rome. While he provoked controversy by destroying some iconic antiquities, he rebuilt much of the Papacy, restored economic conditions, and was a central figure in the Counter-Reformation.

Item number: #14466
Price: $499
LETI, Gregorio
La Vie du pape Sixte cinquième. Traduit de l'italien… Read More

1794 1ed Menno Simons Mennonite Fundamentals America Anabaptist Pennsylvania

Menno Simons was an important and influential Anabaptist priest who is best known for establishing the Mennonite denomination. Simons departed from the Catholic Church and began writing works which rejected the teachings and practices of Catholicism, none more so than his book 'Foundation of Christian Doctrine'. In it, Simons covers his disagreements with infant baptism, asceticism, and excommunication – all practiced within the Roman Catholic tradition.
This 18th-century first American edition of the works of Menno Simons was published in Pennsylvania, at the heart of the Quaker and Mennonite country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Item number: #17346
Price: $950
SIMONS, Menno

Ein fundament und klare anweisung von der seligmachenden lehre unsers Herrn Jesu Christi : Aus Gottes wort kurz begriffen
[Lancaster], Pennsylvanien : Gedruckt [von J. Albrecht & Co.] im jahr Christi, 1794. First American edition

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1686 Frankish Monk Ratramnus Eucharist Supper Carolingian Catholic Blood Jesus
Ratramnus was a 9th-century Frankish monk who served the Corbie Monastery. Ratramnus was a Carolingian theologian who is primarily remembered for his work 'On the Body and Blood of the Lord'. This book was a direct response to Paschasius Radbertus's treatise of a similar title which described the elements of the Lord's Supper, or Eucharist as it pertains to the blood of Christ. Ratramnus argued that the elements did not physically change property, that they remained bread and wine and did not become Jesus's blood and flesh – a debate which has lingered for centuries within the Catholic Church.
Item number: #18656
Price: $499
RATRAMNUS
Traité du corps et du sang du Seigneur : composé en Latin ... Traduit en françois avec des remarques ...
Paris : veuve d'Edme Martin, & Jean Boudot, 1686.

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o [2], 291, [7]
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1746 Slovakia 1ed Seraphic Order Catholic Bratislava Czech Emil Nieberle RARE
A rare and rather obscure 18th-century Catholic devotional published in Bratislava in 1746. Bratislava is not considered to be one of the major publishing hubs of the 18th-century making this first edition book by Emil Nieberle quite rare. This book covers spiritual exercises and practices among the Seraphic Order.
Item number: #18658
Price: $499
NIEBERLE, Aemilianus
Octava seraphica religioso spiritualia exercitia facienti : Devote celebranda seraphicum institutum profitentibus oblata. Dum...universam philosophiam
Posonii [Bratislava] : Typis Haeredum Royerianorum, 1746. First and only edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [6], 276, [4]
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Language: Latin
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~5.25in x 3in (13.5cm x 8cm)
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1659 ANGELS & Demons 1ed Questions on Existence Spanish Jesuit Esparza Artieda
A remarkable Jesuit treatise on the existence of angels!
Martin de Esparza Artieda was a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit theologian who wrote numerous important studies. Though, unquestionably, his most important work was his 'Questions About Angels'. In this treatise, Artieda addresses the species and types of angels, their intellect, as well as the spiritual and physical attributes of angels.
Item number: #20550
Price: $750
ARTIEDA, Martin de Esparza
Qvaestiones dispvtandae de angelis
Romae: typis H.H. Corbeletti, 1659. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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[12], 591, [21]
· Provenance: Handwritten
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Jois. Conradi Knöll, 1669
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Min. Fuldae, 1705
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.75in X 3.25in (14.5cm x 8cm)
· Very rare and desirable
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1709 RARE German Bible Sermons Johann Graff Augsburg Vellum Binding Germany
A rare, early 18th-century collection of German sermons given for each day of the liturgical year. This work, collected by Johann Andreas Graff, contains sermons on eternal life as well as spiritual sayings and texts. This large tome is finely bound in original vellum – a fine piece!
Item number: #20933
Price: $499
GRAFF, Johann Andreas

Geistlicher Bien-Stock/ Das ist: Ein angenehme und heylsame Zusammentragung/ aller Sonntag-Predigen deß gantzen Jahr
Augspurg : In Verlag Georg Schluter, 1709.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[16], 1027, [93]
· Provenance: Handwritten – [S. Jacobi Scot Ratiff], 1728
· Language: German
· Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
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Includes two functioning clasps
· Size: ~8in X 6.5in (20.5cm x 16.5cm)
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1787 1st ed EARLY Americana Quaker Memorials Philadelphia Pennsylvania Jersey

An important, late 18th-century American account of early American Quakers. 'A Collection of Memorials of Quakers' is an assortment of biographical sketches of dozens of Quakers, memorializing their life and death. Notably, many of the names discussed in this work are women.

Item number: #22271
Price: $599

Society of Friends

A Collection of memorials concerning divers deceased ministers and others of the people called Quakers, in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and parts adjacent, from nearly the first settlement thereof to the year 1787: With some of the last expressions and exhortations of many of them.

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]. First edition.

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• Collation: Complete with all pages
o viii, 439, [1]
• References: Evans 20377; Sabin 14377
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Rare 1st edition, 6th printing copy of this classic work. Very good condition, clean text and good dust jacket - see pictures. NOT ex-library.

1857 AFRICA 1st ed David Livingstone Missionary Travels Illustrated Map Angola
"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
― David Livingstone
An incredibly rare first edition of David Livingstone's "Missionary Travels." In this book Livingstone describes his travel and work as a missionary to the indigenous people in Central and South Africa. Through the mid-19th-century, South Africa was complete unknown to Europeans, so Livingstone's mission brought light to more than just spreading the gospel. The work deals with customs, languages, animal and plant biology, geology, topography, and mineralogy.
"The geographical results of his journeys were of supreme importance and made it possible to fill in great stretches of the maps of Central Africa which hitherto had been blank" (PMM 341).
Livingstone discovered the Zambesi River and Victoria Falls (which he named), parts of Angola, and Mozambique; met… Read More

1658 Spencer Things New Old Aristotle Cicero Plato Melanchthon Lombard Socrates
John Spencer was a 17th-century English author who compiled an interesting collection of anecdotes and sentences from numerous writers entitled "Things New and Old". In this book, Spencer includes the writings of famous figures such as Socrates, Walter Raleigh, Valerius Maximus, Cicero, Plato, Pythagoras, Philip Melanchthon, Herodotus, Peter Lombard, Aristotle, and countless other famous writers.
Item number: #23810
Price: $750
SPENCER, John
Kaina kai palaia = Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall
London: Printed by W. Wilson and J. Streater, 1658. First edition.
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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [14], 679, [37]
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~13.25in X 8.75in (34cm x 22cm)
· Quite rare
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1683 HOLY LAND 1ed Two Journeys to Jerusalem Muslim Christian Jews Persia RARE
"Two Journeys to Jerusalem" is a rare, 17th-century story of voyages in the Middle East and Holy Land. Set out for Jerusalem, two Pilgrims and English voyagers spend time in Tripoli, Bethlehem, Jericho, The Jordon River, Sodom and Gomorrah, and many other Biblical locations. While the descriptions of the locations are noteworthy, the most important aspect of this book is the implications of the relations between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Persia!
Item number: #23753
Price: $950
TIMBERLAKE, Henry
Two journeys to Jerusalem, containing first, A strange and true account of the travels of two English pilgrims
London: Printed for Nath. Crouch, 1683. First edition.
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· Collation:
o [6], 232 (i.e., 206)
pagination errors expected
3 illustrations (including engraved title page)
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6in X 3.75in (15cm x 9cm)
· Very rare and desirable
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New York: The New American Library, 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, "First Printing" stated on copyright page. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $6.50 price on front flap. Black boards and green cloth spine with silver lettering. 309 pages. FINE book in VERY GOOD + dust jacket. Book is very bright and clean, tight and square, spotless and unworn with no bumping. Thin strip of mild sun-fading along top edge of spine. Flawless interior with bright pages appearing possibly unread. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is very bright and very clean with no sunning. Light wear to the spine ends. A small scrape with closed tear on the rear spine fold. Front panel has just slight surface wear. Rear panel has one small closed tear at both the top and bottom edges along with some faint creasing and is otherwise unworn. Excellent inner flaps. Jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover..

1593 WARS of Religion Menippean Satire Catholic LEAGUE Spain France Huguenot

A rare first edition of The Menippee Satire – a political work of prose and satire which criticized the Catholic League and Spain during the French Religious Wars. This fine printing features a beautiful and detailed engraving of the Catholic League procession. This book of prose and verse was collected by numerous authors including Jacques Gillot, Florent Chrestien, Nicolas Rapin, Pierre le Roy, Jean Passerat, Gilles Durant, and others.

This edition was published in France in 1593.

Item number: #24407
Price: $750

Catholic Church

Satyre Menippee de la vertv dv catholicon d'Espagne, et de la tenve des Estatz de Paris

France : 1593. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 565 (i.e., 563)
o Several woodcut engravings throughout
· References: USTC 31383
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.5in X 3.25in (14cm x 8.5cm)

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