Religion

  • # 45110

    SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.

    Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

    London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information …

  • # 43448

    POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)

    De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …

    Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …

  • # 42307

    Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606) et al.

    Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell’anno 1587.

    Con l’arrivo de’ Signori Giapponesi nell’India. Cavati dalle lettere della Compagnia di Giesù. Ricevute il mese d’ Ottobre 1588. Con licentia de’ superiori. In Venetia, appresso i Gioliti. 1588. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), modern quarter red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt ‘AVVISI DELLA CINA’; new …

  • # 42439

    Matos (Mattos), Gabriel de (1572-1633)

    Lettera annua del Giappone del M. DCXIV. Al molto Rever. Padre Generale della Compagnia di GIESU.

    Scritta dal Padre Gabriel de Mattos della medesima Compagnia di Giesù. Rome : Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1617. Octavo, later papered boards with gilt-lettered leather title-piece to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, and with an early nineteenth-century ownership inscription to bottom margin; pp. 205; occasional browning, a fine copy. ‘The first Italian edition (the original was …

  • # 42373

    COLLADO, Diego (d. 1638 or 1641)

    Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium …

    Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [bound with] Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae linguae … Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [and bound with] Niffon no Cotōbani yô confesion, … [= modus confitendi et examinandi poenitentem Japonensem, formula suamet lingua Japonica … ] Romae typis & impensis Sacr. …

  • # 38379

    CRUS, Manoel da [CRUZ, Manuel da]

    Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus,

    Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India. Lisbon : Lourenço de Anveres, 1642. Second edition. Small quarto (200 x 150 mm), vellum boards gilt, front pastedown with ex libris of H. P. Kraus and cutting from the 1929 Maggs Bros. …

  • # 38364

    [THOMAS, Antoine, 1644-1709]

    A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.

    London : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCIII [1703]. Octavo (155 mm), contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; pp [28], [4 blank], 71, [1]; a few leaves with pale staining; early manuscript ex libris of the Holy Cross Abbey Library; housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. English translation of Brevis relatio eorū quæ spectant ad declarationem …

  • # 42443

    Fróis, Luís (1532-1597) et al.

    Lettere del Giappone dell’anno M. D. LXXVII. Scritte dalli Reverendi Padri della Compagnia di Giesù.

    Rome : Francesco Za[n]netti, 1579. Octavo, later panelled red calf, boards with gilt central device and borders, spine with raised bands decorated and entered in gilt; gilt dentelles; pp. 72; title with woodcut device; first few leaves with small expert restoration at lower fore-edge, otherwise excellent throughout, a near fine copy. Very rare collection of …

  • # 30606

    SPILSBURY, F[rancis]. B.

    Picturesque scenery in The Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800.

    / By F. B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty’s ship Le Tigre; surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns. London : Published by Edward Orme, Printseller to His Majesty and the Royal Family, 59, New Bond-street. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row, 1803. First edition. Large folio (470 x 335 mm), contemporary gilt-ruled half scarlet …

  • # 43114

    [ORSMOND, John Muggridge, 1788-1856]

    Autograph letter in the Tahitian language, written by a chief of Bora Bora to the LMS missionary, Rev. John Muggridge Orsmond. Bora Bora, 1822.

    Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, 3 pp. on quarto bifolium, 175 x 150 mm; letter in the Tahitian language addressed to missionary Rev. John Orsmond at Tahiti, written entirely in the hand of an unidentified chief of Bora Bora, signed ‘Porapora’ at the foot; undated, but probably 1822 (see below); traces of original …

  • # 45100

    Pedro de la Cavallería; Martin Alfonso Vivaldo; Samuel Marochitanus

    Tractatus zelus Christi contra Iudaeos, Sarracenos, & infideles,

    ab illust. doct. Petro de la Cavalleria, Hispano ex civitate Caesaraugusta, anno 1450 … … Venice : apud Baretium de Baretijs, 1592. Two works in one volume, quarto (225 x 160 mm), contemporary panelled vellum stamped with the initials L V M; [68], 156; [8], 19 leaves; second work has separate title page: Aureus Rabbi Samuelis tractatus …

  • # 44952

    SCHMIDT, Sebastian (1617–96)

    [OLD TESTAMENT] In librum I. Jobi commentarius,

    in quo, cum optimis quibusque commentatoribus, tum Hebraeis tum Christianis, cohaerentia & vocabula diligenter expenduntur, & sensus studiose eruitur … … Argentorati [i.e. Strasbourg] : sumptibus Johannis Reinhold Dulsseckeri, 1705. Editio secunda. Two works in one volume, thick quarto (205 x 170 x 130 mm), contemporary full vellum (heavily rubbed, spine with faint manuscript lettering, head …

  • # 45102

    FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

    Iosippus De Bello Iudaico.

    / deinde decem Iudaeorum captivitates et decalogus cum eleganti commentariolo Rabbi Aben Esra ; hisce accesserunt collectanea aliquot, quae Sebastianus Lepusculus Basiliensis colligebat, de quibus videre poteris verso folio ; omnia Hebraicolatina. Basel : [Heinrich Petri, 1559]. Small octavo (155 x 110 mm), contemporary limp vellum (traces of original ties, spine darkened and with remnants of …

  • # 44753

    CHURCH OF ENGLAND

    The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England :

    together with the psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to the sung or said in churches. Oxford : printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1781. [Bound with] : A companion t the altar : shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation, in order to our …

  • # 44618

    FRASER, Thomas M'Kenzie

    Sermons for colonists

    Geelong : Wish & Downie, 1867. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (heavily worn, boards water stained), pp. xii; 392, pale water stain to preliminaries, text clean, a couple of quires slightly spring, a good copy of a rare book. Ferguson 9746 ‘Rev. Thomas McKenzie Frazer was notable among the founders of Geelong College as a member of …

  • # 44592

    WHITE, Eric

    Editio princeps : A History of the Gutenberg Bible

    Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 465, over 100 colour illustrations. New copy. The first complete history of all the Gutenberg Bibles. Winner of the 2018 DeLong Book History Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) The Gutenberg Bible is widely recognized …