Religion
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# 43802
[GIBSON, Robert, 1856-1880]
In Affectionate Remembrance of Robert Gibson, husband of Catherine Lily Gibson, Who was Killed by the accidental discharge of a gun, on the 22nd June, 1880, at Serpentine Creek, Victoria, aged 26 years
and was interred in the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Cemetery, 27th June, 1880. [Sandhurst?] : [s.n.], 1880. Die-cut mourning card, 75 x 114 mm; light foxing, otherwise in very good condition. A poignant mourning card recording the accidental death of Robert Gibson near Serpentine Creek, northwest of Bendigo, in June 1880. Robert had married 17-year-old Catherine Lily Threlfall, …
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# 43840
ALLAN, Mark Joseph
Pair of studio portraits of a Salvation Army couple in uniform. Melbourne, late 1880s.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mounts); rectos of mounts imprinted ‘Allan, 270 Smith Street, Collingwood’; both prints and mounts are in excellent condition. These portraits were clearly taken during the same visit to Allan’s studio, probably around 1888, the year Allan commenced business in Smith Street. They were found …
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# 43813
JANSEN, Cornelius, the Elder (1510-1576)
[BINDING] Paraphrasis in psalmos omnes Davidicos, cum argumentis et annotationibus:
Lyon : P[ierre]. Landry, 1597. Two volumes in one, folio (360 x 230 mm), contemporary panelled calf over oak boards with two brass clasps (still working), expertly and sympathetically rebacked in period style; the beautiful inner boards left exposed, each with a stub of vellum manuscript waste (taken from a rubricated music ms.); later endpapers; …
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# 43656
BOREEL, Abraham (1605-1664)
Missilia sacra sive de mutua Christianorum unione comparanda, promovenda atq[ue] fraterne conservanda cum iis qui sectantur pacem et charitatem. Item de Judaeorum conversione ad Jesum Christum … …
Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht] : typis G. Zylii et T. Ackersdijckii [Zylius & Ackersdijckius], 1659. First and only edition. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (a few scuff marks, corners worn, joints expertly repaired); front free-endpaper with early ownership inscription, pp. [2], 194, [1 errata]; text in Latin; top-edges trimmed close, resulting in partial loss of letters in …
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# 43543
Maker unknown.
A Batak shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”.
[Northern Sumatra, twentieth century]. Comprised of twelve bamboo slats incised with Batak script, suspended by twine from a bone finial incised with shamanic symbols; dimensions 180 x 110 mm; intact, darkened patina overall. A Batak datu or shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”, used not for determining the date but rather auspicious times for rituals. Each of the …
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# 21999
LAUNAY, Adrien (1853-1927)
Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères
: 27 cartes en 5 couleurs accompagnées de 27 notices géographiques et historiques. Lille : Société de Saint Augustin, 1890. Large folio (530 x 380 mm), original cloth backed printed papered boards (lightly marked), [3] prelimary leaves, followed by 27 full page colour maps, each accompanied by descriptive text on facing page; thumb index; all maps …
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# 43434
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ane : hymn book in the Motu language of Papua.
Rabaul, New Britain, Territory of New Guinea : Methodist Mission Press, 1960. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (sunned and marked), pp 80, [3 index]; title page with early owner’s name; contents clean. Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to distinguish it from Hiri Motu) is a Central Papuan Tip language …
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# 43242
LOWTH, Robert (1710-1787)
De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum.
Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii Habitæ a Roberto Lowth A. M. college novi nuper socio, et poeticæ publico prælectore … … Oxonii : E Typographeo Clarendoniano, M DCC LIII [Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1753]. First edition. Quarto (275 x 230 mm), contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt (a little scuffed and marked), spine with raised bands …
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# 39208
BARRY, Zachary (1827-1898)
Zachary Barry, minister of St. John’s, Fremantle, Western Australia: autograph letter signed, dated 27 August 1855, re. receipt of a shipment of Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society.
[2] pp, quarto (250 x 200 mm), manuscript in ink on unwatermarked writing paper; headed ‘Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 Aug. 1855’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’ and is signed at the foot ‘Yrs. very faithfully, Zachary Barry, Incumbent of St. John’s Church, Fremantle, West Australia’; Barry advises of the safe arrival from London, …
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# 22302
Raymond of Sabunde (c.1385-1436)
Theologia naturalis sive Liber creatura[rum] specialiter de homine [et] de natura eius in qua[n]tum homo.
:[et] de his qu[a] sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendu[m] seip[su]m [et] Deu[m] [et] om[n]e debitu[m] ad q[uo]d ho[mo] tenet[ur] et obligatur tam Deo q[uam] p[ro]ximo. Impressus Nurembergae : Per Anthoniu[m] koberger [sic] inibi co[n]cluem, 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), contemporary sheep over wooden boards (lacking clasps), elaborate blind-tooling to both boards, upper board including …
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# 42339
Rhodes, Alexandre de (1593-1660)
Relation de ce qui s’est passé en l’année 1649. Dans les royaumes où les Peres de la Compagnie de Jésus de la province du Japon, publient le Saint Evangile.
[Dediee a la Reyne de Pologne et de Suede. Par le P. Alexandre de Rhodes de la mesme Compagnie. A Paris, chez Florentin Lambert, M.DC.LV.]. Octavo (165 x 100 mm), modern panelled red calf, spine lettered in gilt; engraved frontispiece (not found in other examples), 120 pp; clean throughout, but lacking the title-leaf and the 6-page dedication …
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# 42634
CARPZOV, Johann Gottlob (1679 - 1767)
Apparatus historico criticus Antiquitatum sacri Codicis et gentis Hebraeae.
Uberrimis annotationibus in Thomae Goodwini Mosen et Aaronem. Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1748. Quarto, blind-embossed contemporary vellum, a little marked, manuscript title to spine, hinges and joints expertly strengthened, bookplate to front pastedown, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, pp. x; [vi]; 164; [2]; 820; (66 – index], woodcut headpieces and initials, …
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# 39209
PEGGOTT, William
Manuscript letter addressed to Rev. Benjamin Hurst, Wesleyan minister at Goulburn, New South Wales, from fellow Wesleyan William Peggott, Leicestershire, dated 2 June 1855.
Benjamin Hurst (1811-1857), in company with Francis Tuckfield, was sent from England to work as a Wesleyan missionary among the Port Phillip Aborigines in 1838. In 1839-40 he was at the Buntingdale Mission Station in the Geelong-Colac area. He next worked at the Wesleyan Chapel in Collins Street, Melbourne before being posted to Sydney in August …
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# 32963
BOWDEN & THRELKELD; [CALDWELL, John, 1817-1884)
Bill of purchase for the Wesleyan City Mission Chapel building, Sussex Street, Sydney, 7 April 1859.
Foolscap folio bifolium (330 mm), with the printed letterhead ‘City Mart, 362, George Street, Sydney. By Bowden and Threlkeld, at auction.’; the first side with entries in manuscript, dated 7 April 1859, recording the sale ‘on account of Messrs. Spier, Callaghan and others’ of ‘A Building in Sussex St. used as a Chapel, purchased by …
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# 42921
LINDO, E. H. (Elias Hayyim)
A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years, detailing the new moons, festivals, and fasts,
with the sections of the law as read in the synagogues every Sabbath during the year : also the days on which the hour for commencing Sabbath is altered, together with the corresponding Christian dates : to which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M 6000-2400 C.Æ, and a chronological table, forming a …
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# 20078
DUREL, John (editor) [Queen's Binder B]
[FINE BINDING]. Liturgia, seu liber precum communium, et administrationis sacramentorum,
aliorumque rituum atque ceremoniarum ecclesiae, juxta usum ecclesiae Anglicanae una cum Psalterio seu Psalmis Davidis, ea functatione distinctis, qua cantari aut Recitari debent in Ecclesiis. London : excudit Rogerus Nortonus, regius in Latinis, Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne, regium bibliopolam in Vico vulgariter dicto Little-Britain, 1670. Octavo, fine English ‘drawer-handle’ binding of elaborate …