The Four Gospels of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Shawnee Indian Language by Thomas W. Alford - 1929

Basel: Adam Petri de Langendorff. Second Latin edition, 1517. Hardcover. Good. Fine border of cherubs riding dragons, nudes, men in armour, foliage, columns etc. signed Urs Graf (U.G.) and with date 1516.. Folio bevelled wooden covers with wide rolled pigskin spine handsomely blind stamped with rampant lions in lozenges between parallel strands of vines & flowers. TP is printed in red & black. Spines with three raised bands and diamond shaped alternating with stylized flower tools (lacks clasps/some worm holes to wood and vellum) Fore-edge lettered Simon de Cassea (14)+469 leaves + colophon with large printer's mark for Alantsee of 2 griffons suporting a shield with cipher ALT and supporting an oak tree above (total fatness of book just under 11cm) TP with three ownerships (2 on top margin one with a single line through it the 3rd to side of text) Fore-edge of TP slightly rough & tanned. Some large foliated initial capitals and fine double column typography of this near incunabulum. Some worm holes… Read More

Pragae [Prague]: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu Ad. S. Clementem, 1757. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 2 vols. 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches. Vol. 1: 1 ffep + half title + title + 1 - 260 + 7 unnumbered pages + 261 - 644, lacks numbering for 645-46 but collates + 647-696 + 4 unnumbered pages + 697 - 790 + 1 rfep. Vol. 2: Ownership inscription "Collegia Soc. Jesu Confluentia" to front pastedown, 1 ffep + half title + title + 473 numbered pages + 169 unnumbered pages. Both volumes with numerous decorative capitals and printer's devices of styles and methods ranging from post-incunabula to baroque engraving. All page edges rouged. Bound in contemporary white blindstamped goatskin with 2 (of 4) engraved fore-edge clasps. Spines with four raised bands and red spine label with gilt "Institut Societ Jes Tom [number]. A fine and unusual tour de force of Jesuit and printing history, includes excellent example of St. Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises and… Read More

1743 1ed David Mill Oriental Treatises MUSLIM Arabic Muhammed Islam Coins RAREDavid Mill was an 18th-century Germany orientalist known for his reformed theological views. While professor of oriental studies at the University of Utrecht, Mill wrote a number of dissertations on Mahomet and Islam, Arabic language etymology, Hebrew manuscripts, and speeches of Muhammed. One particularly desirable treatise is Mill's 'Mohammedism before Mohammed'.This exceedingly rare first edition of these dissertations is illustrated with six folding engraved plates of various language examples, in text illustrations of coins and medals, and a thorough Bible index of references.Item number: #5291Price: $1500MILL, DavidDavidis Millii S.S. Theologiae D. ejusdemque, nec non Antiquitatum Sacrarum, & Linguarum Orientalium, in Academia Trajectina, Professoris Ordinarii, dissertationes selectae, varia S. litterarum et antiquitatis orientalis capita, exponentes et illustrantes. Curis secundis, novisque dissertationibus,… Read More

1835 1ed William Parry North Pole Voyages Eskimos Navigation Arctic Exploration

A rare, 1835 edition of William Parry's personal account from his voyages to the Northwest Passage. He was one of the first explorers to reach the North Pole, setting the record for the furthest north any human had reached! Parry recounts his interactions with Eskimos, navigations through fog and ice, viewing meteorological phenomena including the Aurora Borealis, and discovering new birds and plants.

The Arctic Bibliography says of this work:
"Abstracts from the author's journals of his three voyages to the Canadian arctic waters; of his attempt to reach the North Pole and his account of the Eskimos."

This rare, early edition of Parry's 'Voyages' was printed in four volumes, each with fine full-page illustrations depicting the adventures of the ships Fury and Hecla.

Item number: #6561
Price: $1500
PARRY, William Edward
Three voyages for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and… Read More

E Typographeo Clarendoniano. Sumptibus Academiae. Oxonii. 1763. FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION. 4to in 2's. (12.2 x 9.7 inches). Half title, Title page, 415pp. One of 500 copies printed, using the fine Baskerville Greek type. A clean and crisp copy in a very good contemporary leather binding of full diced dark brown calf boards, with floral gilt roll borders. Professionally re-spined at a later date with a matching coloured Morocco spine, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Board edges ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges marbled. A small patch of rubbing to the front free endpaper and some rubbing and bumping to the edges but overall a very good copy of this beautifully printed book in an attractive 18th century binding.

Utrecht [?]: N.P., 1695. Published 1695. Title Continues: "...solidly confirmed, & learnedly vindicated from the various Objections of its Adversaries. Whereunto are subjoined some Arguments against Universal Redemption". A methodical and supported explanation and defense of the doctrine of justification - that Christians are justified in God's eyes through their faith. Includes a preface by Melchior Leydecker. Full contemporary sheep with four raised spine bands, paper spine label, [12], 563, [1], with the final leaf of the index, and free endpapers, absent. Covers rubbed with chips to the spine head and corners, some craquelure-type surface cracks to the spine covering, joints good, text block sound, pages evenly age-toned and lightly foxed, name and 1743 date at head of title page. . Hard Cover. Fair. Small 4to (20cm x 15cm).

London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition printed in color. Publisher's red pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt. Very good copies, boards slightly scuffed and bumped, Vol. II rejointed, recased, and endpapers renewed, plates and text bright.. viii, 264 pp; viii, 266 pp. Illus. with 180 chromolithograph plates (incl. 3 maps, 1 folding) many with multiple images. Sm. 4to. The classic work on the American Indian covering all aspects of their lives with the images taken from the close to 600 paintings Catlin produced while visiting nearly fifty tribes. First published in 1841, this is the first edition to have the plates printed in color (though a few hand-colored copies were produced earlier). "One of the most original, authentic, and popular works on the subject. Humboldt characterizes the author as 'one of the most admirable observers of manners who ever lived among the aborigines of America'," (Sabin). Howes C241. Lipperheide 1618. Pilling 689. See Sabin 11537 (1866). Streeter Sale 4277… Read More

Oxford: Printed by H.H., Printer to the University, for Ric Royston and Ric Davis, 1665. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 32mo. Calf. [23] 155 p.p. Bumping to corners. Spine tilted. Wear and scratches to spine. Hinges bound tightly. Note in iron gall ink on leaf facing title page: "this Henry Hammond is thought to be the author of Whole Duty of Man.' The Whole Duty of Man is a Protestant devotional book that was published anonymously, with an introduction by Henry Hammond, though authorship was later attributed to Richard Allestree [1621-1681]. Henry Hammond [1605-1660] was a churchman, preacher, and Royalist sympathizer during the English Civil War. As a theologian, he produced several sermons and religious tracts, and compared texts of the New Testament in his book, "Paraphrase and Annotations Upon all the Books of the New Testament" [1653].

5 volumes. xiii+[13]-+568 pages with half-titles, additional engraved title-page, tables, 76 engraved plates which include scenes and views, 3 full-page maps, 17 plates of artifacts engraved in colors, and 15 with original hand-color. xxiv+[17]-608 pages with half-titles, additional engraved title-page, tables, 78 engraved plates (five folding), including view and scenes, 6 maps, 23 plates of artifacts engraved in color (some finished by hand), 5 engraved plates with original hand-color, and 2 tables of Cherokee alphabet. xviii+[19]-535 pages with half-titles, additional engraved title-page, tables, 45 engraved plates with views and scenes (3 folding), including: 4 maps, including: that Showing the location of the Indian Tribes within the United States and a Map of Oregon Showing the location of Indian Tribes, both 1852 and with original hand-color in outline, and 22 plates of artifacts engraved in color. xxvi+[19]-667 pages with half-titles, additional engraved title-page, tables, 41 engraved plates,… Read More

Quintus Curtius Rufus, De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Cum annotationibus D. ErasmiFolio. [4], LXXXIX leaves; [10], 124 pages. Late sixteenth (?) century leather; light scuffing, hinges cracked but cords holding tightly; insect damage to text block with loss of text throughout; margins in Orosius trimmed close, affecting title image. First printing of Erasmus' critical edition of Quintus Curtius. This first century Roman biography of Alexander the Great was an early Renaissance bestseller, with editions from at least a dozen printers throughout Europe by 1517. Erasmus brought it as reading material on a voyage to England in 1517, and finding the text incomplete and corrupt, he prepared his own critical edition. This was first published by his friend Strasbourg printer Matthias Schürer in 1518. Erasmus' version proved so popular that five more printers had issued their own editions of his text by 1541; these in turn were reprinted a total of five more times by 1575. This first edition is… Read More