Search Results: Religion: Christianity from The Owl at the Bridge

En France, M.DCC.LX. [1760]. Author identified by Backer-Sommervogel (volume 11, column 157). BOUND WITH [Frey de Neuville, Pierre Claude, 1692-1773], Observations sur l'Institut de la Société des Jesuites, Avignon, Chez Alexandre Giroud, 1761, 108 pages; AND Memoire dans lequel on prouve par l'Institut & la conduite des Jesuites, qu'ils ont toujours été les ennemis des évèques et de l'Episcopat; caption title; dated 1761 at end; 144 pages. Hard Cover. xii, 129 pages, 16.5 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather. stock#NS0188.

Stanford (State of New York) Printed by Daniel Lawrence, for Henry and John F. Hull, M. DCCC. III. [1803]. Testimony of the English Quaker clergywoman; first published London, 1797. Shaw/Shoemaker, American Imprints. This edition not in Smith (Friends) cf. 2:135. Hard Cover. vi, [7]-111 pages; 16.5 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather, back cover nearly detached, front flyleaf torn, lacking top half; Good+. Stock#NS0111/h.

NY, Dodd, Mead [1933]. Hard Cover. 74, [1] pages, 1 leaf, illus.; 21 cm. Illustrated title-page and lining-papers. "Written by Bernard Shaw. Designed and engraved by John Farleigh ...and published in America ...1933" (leaf at end). "Dissatisfied with the teachings of respectable white missionaries, an African girl embarks upon her own quest for God and Truth. Journeying through the forest, she encounters various religious figures, each one seeking to convert her to its own brand of faith" (publisher's description). Laurence, Dan. Bernard Shaw, a bibliography, A210b. This copy has owner signature dated 3/13/33 on half-title. Very Good; no dust jacket. Stock#102771.

Vatican City, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1943. Scholastic treatise on the corruption of the flesh, the triple nature of the physical world, etc. Published from a manuscript in Florence, Laurentianus, Plut., XXVI, no. 17. Didn't pay much attention to their own writings. Soft Cover. xxxiv, 219 pages; 25.5 cm. Vg, some pages uncut/ soft cover. Stock#27,700 [sic!].

Dordrecht, 1777. Hard Cover. 2 p.l., 422 numb. ll., 4 ll., 132 numb. ll.; 15 cm. This printing not in Darlow & Moule; see II: 3307 for note on the original 1637 edition; see 3356 for near date. Bound with this is Het Boek Der Psalmen Nevens De Gezangen... Amsterdam, H. Brandt, et. al., 1775, with music. A Cathechismus at end may be part of the Psalm book. Bound in full leather. Stock#OB219. VG.

N.Y., Harper, 1952. Hard Cover. xii, 287 p., 22 cm. A rebuttal of Paul Blanchard's book 'American Freedom and Catholic Power' which argued that the Church hierarchy, especially its Cardinals, were increasingly involving themselves in politics and that this was dangerous for the American republic. This book, by a layman, argues that Blanchard's thesis is false and so biased and inaccurate as to be worthless. Vg/no dj. 101667.

Philadelphia [183-?]. Engraving, 10.6 x cm. on sheet 19.3 x cm. "Dagd. by H. L. Smith. Engd. by J. Sarain, Phila." Probably cut from his book "The Evidences of Christianity, in Their External, or Historical, Division, Exhibited in a Course of Lectures". M'Ilvaine was chaplain of West Point from 1825 to 1828, when he resigned on the last day of that year. "The office of a Bishop does not give the happiness which that of a Pastor affords. I long to see some fruits of my ministry, and that my labors are bringing souls to Christ." Engraving shows white-tonsured M'Ilvaine facing half right, hand inside vest in standard Napoleonic pose; wearing black coat, vest, white collar. stock#32361 (mvo).

NY, Domestic & Foreign Missionary Society [1913]. The story of the Episcopal Church's Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society in China in the early 20th century. Soft Cover. 98 pages, illus.; 19 cm. Good+/ paper. Stock#NS0291.

Penguin, 1983. Soft Cover. 299 p.; 18 cm. Pelican History of the Church Volume Four. 'The Church in general, reacting strongly against the turbulences ...placed a premium on order, moderation, and stability.' Stock#28466. Good paperback.

Aberdoniae: Typis Academicis, MCMXIV [1914]; A facsimile reprint Gregg Press 1965.  163 pages, [3] leaves of plates, illustrations, 23 cm. Hard Cover. Documents of the Franciscans in England. Includes Brother William of England, Companion of St. Francis, and some Franciscan Drawings in the Matthew Paris Manuscripts; Description of a Franciscan Manuscript, formerly in the Phillipps Library; The Library of the Grey Friars of Hereford; A Short Notice of some Manuscripts of the Cambridge Friars, now in the Vatican Library; Records of the Franciscan Province of England. Very good copy, unused. 31318x

New Bedford [Mass.]: Printed By David Hollis. 1810. Soft Cover. 8 p. Originally issued for the Congregational Church in Berlin, Vermont. Shaw & Shoemaker, American Imprints, 20350. Stock#OB054. Vg, clean, disbound.

London: John W. Parker & Son, 1852. Hard Cover. vi, 346, 4 p.; 23.5 cm. Title continues: "delivered at the ordinary visitation in 1851, with notes especially in answer to Dr. Newman's recent lectures." Attack on John Henry Newman, the most prominent Anglo-Catholic in the Oxford movement. Stock#OB962. Rebound by Hollis Bedell, saving bookplates of Prof. Wilford Harold Munro and Pembroke College.

Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press [c1950]. Hard Cover. xxxviii, 1257 p., index, maps incl. endpaper maps; 23 cm. Title continues: to its Understanding as History and Literature, and as a Source of Religious Experience. The Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament, with Introductions, Prefaces, Notes, and Annotated Maps. "...an invitation to a new understanding of the Bible. Here is all the majesty of the beloved King James version, including the Apocrypha, rearranged for clarity and with repetitions omitted. Here are also over 150,000 words of concurrent text in explanation of historical and social backgrounds..." Dj chipped, ink owner names; good. stock#44937.

Florence, Giunta, 1521; reprint Gregg 1966. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 145 numbered leaves, 1 leaf; 19.5 cm. An attack on Martin Luther and a statement of the Pope's supreme authority, by a member of the Curia. Bound in maroon cloth; Very good, unused copy. Stock#31343.

Boston : George W. Briggs, 1848.. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi, [1], 8-218, [2] p. ; 17 cm. Preface dated: Boston, Jan, 14, 1848.Owner's inscription of front flyleaf: Abbie March 1st 1848.Sequel to his Duties of Young Men (cf. p.iv). Publisher’s advertisements--p. [219-220]. Stock# 102,233.. Vg, original cloth binding, spine reinforced, / no dj.

University of Notre Dame Press, 1977. Hard Cover. 314 p. 24 cm. Fifth printing: first, 1959. A study of the development of the liturgy--Eurcharist, Baptism, Communion, etc.--in the early Church. Stock# 34,625. Vg/ no dj.

NY, American Bible Society & NYPL, 1961; reprint Martino, 1999.. Hard Cover. Octavo; xxxvii, 477 p., 23.5 cm. A Bibliography of Editions of the Bible & the New Testament Published in America, 1777-1957. Sheehy BB 94; Besterman 764. A chronological, copiously annotated listing of 2,573 Bibles in the English language published in the United States and Canada. Cross-referenced with Evans; full collations; six indices: geographical of publishers & printers; alphabetical ditto; translations, translators & revisers; editors & commentators; edition titles; general index. Stock# 34878x/h. Fine, binder's cloth; new from the publisher.

Oxford UP, 1934; Third Impression November 1935. Hard Cover. 110 p., illus.; 28 cm. "A First Bible... contains in the words of the King James Bible the stories which time has proved to be the most interesting and inspiring to youth of every age... nobody has ever written stories for children that can match the Bible for their drama and simplicity in telling. No writer can ever hope to match the language. ...A feeling for fine writing, poetry and music may readily spring from the sheer beauty of these stories." Edited by Jean West Maury. Pictorial dj worn; small ink owner name; VG. stock#45127.

'4th printing, 1957'. Hardcover. 48 pages, color and black&white illustrations & decorations throughout; 13.5 cm. Twenty-five brief children's prayers for morning, evening, grace, other occasions. Bound in blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, color front-cover label; covers spotted, lightly worn; no dust jacket; VG. stock#703.

Aberdoniae: Typis Academicis, MCMX [1910]; reprint Gregg 1966. Hard Cover. xii, 198 p.; 19.5 cm. Contains Bibliography of John Pecham's Writings by Kingsford & Little; Selections from Pecham's 'Tractatus Pauperis' or 'De Perfectione Evangelica'; Tractatus contra Fratrem Robertum Kilwardby, O.P.; Defensio Fratrum Mendicantium. 'The three works here printed are concerned with the defence of the Franciscan conception of evangelical poverty against the attacks both of the Seculars and the Dominicans. In this volume the older form 'Pecham' has been used in preference to the form 'Peckham.' Very good copy, unused. Stock#31342.