Search Results: Authors starting with F from St. Wulfstans Books

Paris: Bossange Freres, 1824. 3/4 leather. Very Good +. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. 458 pages with foldout map of the Campaign of 1814. Pages clean with no staining, soiling or marking. Scattered light foxing. Title page bears the neat contemporary inscription in blue ink as follows: "[To] Baron von Neumann [From] Lady Georgiana Codrington." All page edges speckled rouge. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled boards. Hinges starting, and boards with light wear. Fain was the secretary to Napoleon from 1806 to 1814, and his works are considered of primary historical importance - a "source de tout premier ordre pour l'histoire de l'Empire. This copy belonged to the family of the Duke of Wellington's aides-de-camp at the time of his Iberian campaign and the Battle of Waterloo. The giver of the book is Lady Georgiana Charlotte Anne Somerset (1817-1884), the second daughter of Major Henry Somerset, seventh Duke of Beaufort (1792-1853), and aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Wellesley, the… Read More

[c. 1857]. Loose_leaf. Near Fine. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Single leaf with handwritten notes in contemporary hand on one side. A very nice note regarding the disposition of property. A nice legal/genealogical item.

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. 283 pages. Old owner's stamp to endpaper and scattered small notes in pencil. Otherwise clean. Bound in publishers' grayish cloth. Covers lightly worn. A very good clean reading copy.

London, 1630. Leather Bound. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. 4to. 10 [of 12] leaves + 304 [of 309] numbered pages. Lacks title and following page and last 8 pages. Title page supplied in handwritten facsimile along with ownership inscription and old bookseller's notes. Marginal notes in old ink and pencil. Printed in black letter and Roman throughout. Scattered soiling and dampstaining. Bound in later full brown calf with gilt and blindstamped borders and gilt decoration to center of both boards. Spine with eight gilt ruled bands. Hinges repaired with Japanese tissue and green silk ties restored. Wear to spine, surface and corners. ESTCS122214. A very good copy of this defense of the Anglican liturgy against "low church" criticisms in the form of a series of dialogues. A scarce work.

Boston: Ginn & Company, [1904]. Original Cloth. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. xv + 254 pages. Heavily illustrated. Old ownership inscriptions to endpapers and small ink stain at upper edge of last few pages. Otherwise, pages are clean and free from soiling, spotting and marking. Bound in publisher's light gray cloth with decoration and title in black and red. Two ink spots to front cover and one smaller ink spot on rear cover. Otherwise, covers very lightly worn. Dated by copyright. A very good early 20th Century take on the history of the United States.

Lugd[unum] Batavorum (Leiden): Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1658. Leather_bound. Very Good. 4 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 2 ffep + * + A - Iii (in 8s) + 2 rfep. Engraved title page. A few unobtrusive smudges, but pages generally bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary calf with gilt ruled borders. Spine with five compartments separated by gilt decorated raised bands. One compartment with spine label with title. Other compartments with gilt decoration, now dulled. Loss to head and tail of spine and covers worn. Front cover detached. Provenance: Library of Samuel Hart, with clipping from late 19th Century New York newspaper regarding a performance of Horace and small bookplate/label inside front cover. From the library of Samuel Hart, which experienced a fire that damaged a number of books. As a result, items from Hart's library are extremely rare. Samuel Hart (1845-1917) was dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, the (un)official "middle way" seminary of… Read More

Basel: Verlag christlicher Schriften, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches. 240 pages. Occasional slight toning and light stains. Else clean. Bound in black on black cloth with green spine label. Covers lightly worn. An interesting religious treatise. Particularly interesting for the extended discussion of the conflict between Jesus and Satan.

Basel: Im Verlag christlicher Schriften, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good +. 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. viii + 133 + [3] pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. Bound in contemporary brown marbled boards with green cloth spine. Covers very lightly rubbed. Remnants of white spine label. A good clean copy. Nicely bound.

Leipzig: Julius Klinthardt, 1853. 4 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches. ix + 260 + [2] pages. Moderate foxing. Otherwise, pages clean. Bookplate of Wilhelm Sauber dated 1855. Bound in contemporary black boards with black cloth corners and spine. Spine with gilt title and rules. Covers lightly worn. A scarce work.

Edinburgh: R. Lendrum & Co., 1847. New edition revised. Original Cloth. Very Good. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 1 ffep + half title + title + 169 numbered pages + errata + 1 rfep, with bookplates from Episcopal Theological School, one describing the book as a gift from the library of Rev. Samuel Hollingsworth, S.T.D., (once rector of St. James, Greenfield Mass.) and old bookseller's label from R. Grant & Son, Edinburgh, on front endpapers. Bound in original dark bluish cloth over cardstock with patterned boards and front board with gilt title. The front hinge is weak and there is a slight loss to head of the spine. The text pages are bright and clean. Forbes (1776-1854) was a Scottish judge who did much to promote the Episcopal Church in Scotland. DNB. This is an interesting apology for the Anglican Church addressing issues raised by Scottish dissenters. A very scarce monograph concerning relations between the Scottish and English Anglican churches, and the Scottish communion office (which… Read More

[Minneapolis?]: American Lutheran Church, 1939. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 4 x 6 inches. Cream colored paper printed in black with red number. Left margin perforated. Rear: blank. A nice piece of Lutheran ephemera.

London: Printed by and for John Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1817. A New Edition, very much Enlarged, and Embellished with Numerous Plates. Half Leather. Very Good. 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. 4to. vii + 560 pages. Engraved frontispiece and fourteen engraved plates, many full page. Bound in modern half leather with marbled boards. Spine with red and green labels with gilt title and author. Other compartments with gilt ornaments and separated by double rules. Frontispiece brown, and some other pages toned. A very good wide-margined copy in a fine binding. A finely bound copy of this impressive treatise on the history and practice of British monasticism from the earliest time to the dissolution of the monasteries.

Kaiserswerth: Diakonissen Anstalt, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches. viii + 78 + [2] pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary marbled boards over black cloth spine. Covers lightly worn. An interesting collection of Bible stories for children.

New York: Merrill & Baker, [c. 1890-1897]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 7 3/8 x 10 inches. Full page sepia toned etching printed on yellow coated paper with protective tissue. A very nice etching. John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900) was an American educator, historian and editor. He was a descendant (through his mother) of Samuel Matthews, a colonial governor of Virginia. In 1869, he was elected Professor of English Literature at Asbury College, where he served as faculty member and later vice-president, and was largely the originator of the measures by which that institution was placed under the patronage of Washington C. DePauw, from which it takes its current name (DePauw University). His volumes of history were popular and reissued many times by Merrill & Baker (1890-1897) and The Jones Brothers Publishing Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio 1914-1916) and sold by subscription.

London: S.P.C.K, 1954. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good +/very good. 6 x 8 3/4 inches. 317 numbered pages. Second printing. Pages bright and clean and free of marking. Old owner's ticket on front endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with light bleaching to spine. Very good dust jacket clipped and in protective plastic. A very good and clean copy of this excellent resource on the movements for liturgical revision in England and other parts of the Anglican Communion during the early 20th Century.

Hannover: Verlag von Carl Mener (Gustav Prior.), 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. viii + 328 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in dark marbled boards over clack cloth spine and corners. Spine with gilt title. Spine chipped at head. Otherwise, light wear to covers. An attractive copy.

Hannover: Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior.), 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches. viii + 320 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary marbled boards over black cloth corners and spine. Spine lightly sunbleached. Covers lightly worn. A very good clean and complete copy.

Waverly, Iowa: Wartburg Publishing House, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches. 87 pages. Confirmation certificate filled out with family name Mensing and dated 1895. Pages otherwise bright and clean and free of marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's paper covered boards with cloth spine. Covers lightly abraded and word at edges. A very nice German American confirmation book (Lutheran).

Stuttgart: J.F. Steinkopf, 1879. Original Cloth. Very Good +. 4 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches. 112 pages with frontispiece depicting Strauss. Pages very lightly and uniformly toned. Small ownership inscription in pencil to ffep. Otherwise, clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's embossed red cloth with black and gilt decoration. Covers lightly worn at hinge and edges. A particularly nice and well-preserved period binding.

Altenburg, S.A.: Stephan Geibel Verlag, 1896. Original Cloth. Near Fine. 5 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches. xi + 301 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Patterned endpapers. Bound in publisher's blue/green cloth with black and sepia decoration and gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Slight wear at top and bottom of spine, else no visible wear. A spectacularly well executed and well preserved example of German Arts and Crafts bookmaking.