Religion
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 44576
CRAWFORD, D. (Daniel) (1869-1926)
Thinking black : 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central Africa.
London : Morgan and Scott, 1913. Second edition, second impression. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), publisher’s black cloth decorated and lettered in gilt (very lightly marked); top edge gilt; pp. xvi+486+18; illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates and 4 colour plates; offsetting to the endpaper maps, occasional pencil lines in margins, some pages unopened, two …
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# 44589
[RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY]
Flowers from many lands : a Christian companion for hours of recreation.
London : The Religious Tract Society, [c.1860]. “A New Edition”. Duodecimo (165 x 105 mm), original gilt-decorated morocco (slightly worn, lower board with some whitish discolouration); all edges gilt; pp. iv, 251, [1]; illustrated with 8 chromolithographic plates (including frontispiece); includes a small section on Australian flowers (pp. 115-6) which has one plate; occasional spotting, …
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# 44731
REED, A.W.
Myths and legends of Maoriland
: illustrated by George Woods and W. Dittner. Wellington : A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1954. Fourth impression. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, 230 pp, illustrated, a fine copy.
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# 44186
[HARLAND FAMILY]
[BALLARAT] Wesleyan Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead : book prize awarded to George Harland, April 1870. (With associated ephemera)
PROSSER, Mrs. (Sophie Amelia). Quality Fogg’s old ledger. London : The Religious Tract Society, [1869]. Square octavo, gilt-decorated brown cloth over boards (rubbed and marked); front free-endpaper inscribed in ink: ‘Presented to George Harland by the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead, April 5th 1870’; pp. 162, [6], woodcut illustrations; occasional staining, otherwise sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An …
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# 42355
TE AROHA PONO [COLENSO, William 1811-1899]
[MAORI LANGUAGE] Ko te tuarua o nga pukapuka waki; hei wakakite atu i nga henga a te Hahi o Roma.
Hopataone [Hobart Town] : He mea ta i te Perehi o te Watahaoha ratou ko nga teina [printed by R. S. Waterhouse and Brothers], 1840. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), recent stitched marbled wrappers; pp. 24; text in Māori; first leaf with small perforation to top margin, a lightly creased top corner and some mild …
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# 44394
ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF SYDNEY. HOME MISSION SOCIETY
[SYDNEY] Ladies’ Auxiliary to Home Mission. Mrs Palmer requests the pleasure of Mrs Weston and friends’ company on Tuesday, August 18th at 3 o’clock, in Pitt Street School Hall.
Mr. T. Harper, Home Mission Evangelist, will give a short address. Music, recitations, etc. Sydney, NSW : Ladies’ Auxiliary to Home Mission, [probably 1903 or 1908]. Invitation card, 88 x 114 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; some old water staining (no loss of text); verso blank. ‘The Home Mission Society …
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# 44151
FRAZER, C. J.
Catholic Federation Summer School, Queenscliff, Victoria, February 1923.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, on the original studio mount with imprint of ‘C. J. Frazer, Photo, Melbourne’; mount inscribed in pencil ‘S.S. 1923 Queenscliff’, and in pen in a later hand ‘Catholic Federation, Queenscliffe 1923’; the verso has the name ‘K. McCarthy’ in pen; the print has excellent clarity and is …
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# 44432
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sivarai namo Mareko ia gwauraia. / (St. Mark in Police Motu).
London, Canberra, Cape Town, Toronto, Wellington : The British & Foreign Bible Society, [1964]. First edition. Small octavo (180 x 123 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers, staple bound, 56 pp, line-drawn illustrations, map; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne). ‘Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just …