Search Results: Christianity from John Price Antiquarian Books

Edinburgh: Printed by Murray & Cochrane, 1790. 8vo (in 4s), pp. viii, 139 [140 blank], uncut, original boards, paper label on spine; front joint worn, spine a little worn, binding soiled. Tertulian (c. 160 - c. 225) appears to have written this in 212 to persuade Scapula that Christians should not be persecuted, as they are not "atheists," nor are they disloyal. Sir David Dalrympe (1726 - 1792) had a wide circle of literary friends, including David Hume, Adam Smith, James Boswell, and James Beattie among others. He met Edmund Burke in 1791, shortly after this work was published and just before his death. Burke said of him, that he was "the pleasantest, the most good humoured, the most unaffected, & the most communicative man of letters I ever conversed with." In this work, his considerable knowledge of the classics and of early Christian writings is very much on display: the text occupies the first 32 pages, and pages 35 - 139 are notes and commentary, including a… Read More

London: Printed for Messrs. Cadell and Davies..., 1797. 12mo, pp. 250, contemporary tree calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments to a bird motif, red morocco label; slight wear to top and base of joints, but an attractive copy, with the contemporary armorial bookplate of (probably) Thomas Mills, the Bristol bookseller on the front paste-down end-paper.. Not in Norton.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon...For T. and J. Merrill...[et al], 1777. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], 304, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red leather label (chipped); lacks blank prelims, corner cut from title-page and succeeding leaf, front joint cracked, binding scratched and worn. This above work was written in a month, and Gibbon in his Vindication referred to Watson respectfully, describing him as "the most candid of adversaries." This second edition not listed in Norton.

Leith: W. S. Sutherland..., John Johnstone, Edinburgh, 1843. Large 12mo (in 6s), pp. 12, [3] - 69 [70 postscript], disbound.

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington..., 1797. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 203 x 125 mms., pp. [iii] iv - xvi, 508, with two preliminary leaves, a-a2, pp. xix - xx and [xvii] - xviii misbound between pages 498 and 499 and [xxiii] - xxiv, and xxi -xxii misbound between pages 502 and 503, but complete, contemporary lightly speckled calf, gilt rules across spine, red leather label; corners slightly crushed, mild wear to extremities, but a very good to fine copy with the armorial bookplate of Lady Frances Bentinck on the front paste-down end-paper, and the autograph "J. Bentinck/ April 1797" on the recto of the front free end-paper. Samuel Glasse (1734 – 1812) had a very good academic career, receiving at B. A. from Oxford in 1756, an M. A. in 1759, and his B. D. and D. D. in 1769. The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review for 1798 reviewed the book favourably, concluding that a reader would be "instructed in the history of these pre-eminent Christians, and in the… Read More

London: Printed for John Whiston..., 1747. 8vo, pp. x [xi Contents, xii Errata and Addenda], 268 [269 - 272 adverts], contemporary calf; covers detached, spine and corners worn. Jortin (1698–1770) published an early form of this work as Four Sermons in 1720, and this longer book first appeared in 1746; there were at least four further editions in the 18th century. B. W. Young in his fine Oxford DNB entry for Jortin notes that the work " laid out the grounds for Christian belief by presenting a providential reading of the time of Christ's appearance, the miraculous propagation of the faith by unlettered followers, and the assuredly divine testimony of the scriptures—all of which were typical resources for eighteenth-century apologetic, and were presented by Jortin with eloquent and economic conviction."

Birmingham, Printed for the Author, by Pearson and Rollason..., 1787. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 212 x 129 mms., pp. xvi, 464 [465 - 468 adverts], recent full plum calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; some foxing of text. Inscribed on title-page, "The Author to / Bellas & Latitia / 1801", apparently in the hand of the first-named of the two recipients. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) published these discourses -- mostly sermons and essays on theological matters -- while living in Birmingham, and in them engaged in a certain amount of controversy about monotheism. He must have had a copy of the book with him in his home in the village of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, as it was there that he was in 1801. The first recipient named in the inscription is Priestley's young friend and sometime amanuensis Hugh Bellas (1780-1863), later in life an attorney-at-law, and the lawyer for the local Unitarian congregation. Bellas was also one of the earliest biographers of Joseph Priestley, as his… Read More

Cambridge: Printed by E. D. for Roger Daniel, Printed to the University, 1646. Small 8vo, 149 x 90 mms., pp. [xxii], 437 [438 blank, 439 -454 index and errata], later calf, recently rebacked, with raised bands on spine and red morocco label. the recto of the dedication leaf , "Mr. Geroge Herbert to N. F. the Trnslatour of the Book" has been replaced in ink by a contemporary hand, "mr. Nicolas fferrar of Gidding of Gidding in Huntingdon Glos." He was a great friend of the poet George Herbert: "Nearer the end of Herbert's life, his friend Nicholas Ferrar prepared an English translation, as The Divine Considerations, of a work by the sixteenth-century Castilian humanist, Juan de Valdes, and sent it to Herbert in 1632 for his comments ..." (<https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/13025>). Also with recent additions in pencil on the new rear end-papers. The sermons and other works Juan de Valdez were collected and published in 1550 as Le cento e dieci divine… Read More

Cambridge, Printed by J. Burnes...and sold by J. Deighton, and J. Nicholson..., 1800. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 46, disbound; lacks half-title. Thomas Truebody Thomason (1727 - 1816) had earlier published An essay tending to prove that the Holy Scriptures, rightly understood, do not give encouragement to enthusiasm or superstition in 1795, and his arguments here are not dissimilar. ESTC T102022 locates three copies: L, C; TxU.

Evesham: Printed for the Author by J. Agg: Sold by Bulgin and Shephard..., Bristol..., 1799. 12mo (in 6s), 172 x 95 mms., pp. xviii, 19 - 339 [340 Contents], contemporary tree calf, gilt spine black leather label; binding a little rubbed but a very good to fine copy. Thomas Tregenna Biddulph (1763 - 1838) wrote a number of religious works, but this was his first book, published in 1798. He was a fervent Calvinist and a leader of the evangelical movement in the west of England. The obituary notice for him in The Christian Guardian for 1838 said of this work, "his Essays on the liturgy stand deservedly high, even by the admission of adverse criticism." ESTC T85432 locates copies in BL, Durham; Notre Dame. This is a reissue of the second edition with the title-page reset.

Bonoiae, Apud Alexandrum Benatium. Facultate a Suepeioribus concessa. 1590. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 295 x 208 mms., pp [xviii], [660], 330 numbered leaves, engraved title-page, with engraved vignette, printed in double columns, woodcut vignettes at start of each book, contemporary annotation on lower margin of title-page contemporary sheepskin, a monastery binding, with ownership stamps on title-page, and ownership inscripiton on recto of front free end-paper, printer's colophon on verso of last leaf, spine gilt in compartments (but worn), with what looks like an early repair; lower front joint cracked. A well-used copy but still in good condition; ex-library. "This treatise describes the many ways in which the saintly conduct of St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) conformed to the life and teachings of Christ. The original manuscript of this work, presented to the Franciscan Order by the Franciscan friar Bartholomeus de Pisis in 1399, featured a full-page drawing of Christ crucified… Read More

London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington..., 1774. 12mo, pp. xxxiii [xxxiv - xxxvi blank], 341 [342 blank, 343 - 347 Table, 348 adverts], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin; front joint cracked and front cover holding on for dear life, spine defective. Editions of this work in 1774 include the "Thirty-Third" in New York; one with no edition statement but also printed for the Rivingtons; two "New Edition(s)" in Edinburgh with two different imprints, a "Twentieth Edition" in London for the Rivingtons; and a "Twenty-Sixth Edition" for Donaldson in Edinburgh. For this "Twenty-First Edition" ESTC records only the copies at PETm and CtY. COPAC adds the BL.

London: Printed for William Rogers..., 1798. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, 208 x 154 mms., pp. [xxiv], 388, contemporary panelled calf; upper rear joint slightly cracked, spine a bit dried, but a very good copy. The emergence of Socianism as an element in the history of Christian theology can be dated to the Anabaptist movement of the 1540s. Father Fausto Sozzini (1539 - 1604) was the most notable of the early exponents, and the movement, if it could be called that, takes its name from him. Socinians doubt or deny doctrines of soteriology, the virgin birth, the pre-existence of Christ before his earthly conception, etc. Sherlock (1639 - 1707) seems to have been born into controversy about Christian doctrines, with his earliest publications in opposition to various dissenters. A prolific author of anti-Catholic publications, e. g., A Preservative Against Popery (1688), and his Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity (1690) put forth a new interpretation of the trinity… Read More

London: Printed for Charles Bathurst…, 1777. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [vi], 274, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments to a floral motif, red leather label; spine a little rubbed, but a very good copy. Maclaine (1722 - 1804) was born in Ireland and studied with Francis Hutcheson and William Leechman at the University of Glasgow. He became a Presbyterian minister in 1747, and in 1752 became the sole minister of the Scots Presbyterian church in The Hague. He was, as one might expect a student of Hutcheson to be, familiar with contemporary philosophy as well as other intellectual activities. He published this work just a few months after Gibbon published the first volume of his Decline and Fall, and he mentions Gibbon briefly in this work. ESTC N22995 locates copies in Cambridge, St Patrick's College Library, Maynooth; McMaster University Mills Memorial Library, Union Theological Seminary, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

London: Printed and sold by J. Phillips..., 1779. 8vo, pp. viii, 289 [290 adverts], contemporary sheepskin; front joint wormed and holding by one cord, top and base of spine chipped. With the ownership notation "Henry Owen's Bot. at London in 1811" in pencil and ink on the front paste-down end-paper and copious marginal notes in pencil in the same hand, with another leaf of notes in ink and pencil loosely inserted. Arscott (1676 - 1737) published parts one and two of this work in 1730 - 1731, and Benjamin Franklin printed both parts in Philadelphia in 1731 and 1732. Part 3 was first published in 1734, but this is the first appearance of all three parts in one volume. Part 2 comments extensively on Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730). ESTC T115189 locates copies in L, C, LANu; CaAEU, CaBViV, InRE.

At Oxford, Printed by Joseph Garnes, & are to be sold in Pauls Churchard at the signed of the Tygres head. 1587. 8vo, 156 x 103 mms., pp. [xvi], 1047 [1048 blank, 1049 - 1056 index], woodcut border on title-page, historiated initials, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1788 on top margin of dedicated page (closely shaved with loss of several letters,) ownership repeated on blank page [1048], occasional marginal annotation, bound in 19th century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, red morocco label; top margins of most leaves very closely shaved, with loss of running title and page number, but text spared, rear joint cracked, a good copy. Zacharias Ursinus (1534 - 1583) was, as Wikipedia notes, "was a sixteenth-century German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate, serving both at the University of Heidelberg and the College of Wisdom… Read More