Sacra Biblia, Acri Studio, Ac Diligentia Emendata, Rerum, atque Verborum permultis, & perquàmdignis Indicibus aucta. Superiorum Concessu, ac Privilegiis. [Venice: Apud Iolitos, 1588]. Octavo. Two parts in one small quarto volume. [16], 679; 199, [1, blank], [200, indices] pp. General and New Testament titles within ornate woodcut borders. Illustrated with.....
William Henry Milburn. The Pioneer Preacher; or, Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags, and Other Lectures. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860. Early reprint edition. Octavo. 309pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards in blind, endleaves in yellow. From the collection of Bill Wittliff, highly regarded book designer, typographer, photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas, founder.....
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J. Mason Brewer. Ralph White, Jr., illustrator. The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953. First edition. Inscribed by J. Mason Brewer: "To Daniel Johnson, with con- / gratulations on being able to / obtain the 1st edition of this /.....
Rev. William Cook. The Ploughboy: A Poem, Part First. Salem: [privately printed by the author], 1854. Early reprint edition. Twelvemo. 32pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by the author. Original illustrated paper wraps, stringbound.Early example of one of Cook's charmingly crude pamphlets that he composed, illustrated, printed, and distributed himself.
John Hersey. An Appeal to Christians, on the Subject of Slavery. Baltimore, Printed by Sherwood & Co., [No date, circa 1838]. Third edition. 16mo (approx. 6 x 3.75 inches). 119pp. Rebacked in later leather, utilizing original leather boards and gilt-stamped title strip to spine, endleaves refreshed.
[Church of England] Richard Hooker. The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker in Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. London: Printed for R. C., S. S., B. W., M. W., & G. C., 1705. Folio (approx. 15 x 10 inches). Engraved frontispiece and.....
Hughes, Thomas. David Livingstone. London: Macmillan, 1900. Full polished red calf prize binding from the Tottenham High School for Girls, with school crest stamped in gilt on the front board and printed and manuscript prize label mounted on the front pastedown endpaper; marbled endpapers and edges, fold-out map.
James Weldon Johnson. Aaron Douglas, illustrator. Lettering by C. B. Falls. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Twenty-third printing. Octavo. 56pp. Illustrated with drawings by Aaron Douglas and lettering by C. B. Falls. Publisher's gray cloth, spine and front cover lettered in brown, red top stain, original.....
Forrest R. Jones. Automobile Catechism for the Use of owners and Drivers of cars Fitted with Internal Combustion Motors. New York: The Class Journal Company, 1906. Second edition, revised. Twelvemo. 135pp (indexed). Publisher's black leather, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Hand drawn engine diagram laid-in.
Roger L’Estrange. The Character of a Papist in Masquerade; Supported by Authority and Experience. In Answer to the Character of a Popish Successor… London: H. Brome, 1681. First edition, with a concluding 3-page compendium of Popish and Jesuitical Principles. Octavo. 85pp. Rebound in modern ox-blood cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Wing L-1215.
Protestant Episcopal Church. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church... New York: Oxford University Press American Branch, [1925]. Octavo. 566pp. Handsomely rebound in contemporary brown leather, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, five raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt-stamped.....
Randolph E. Haugan, editor. Christmas: An American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art. Vols. 46-49. 1976-79. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1976-1979. Large format, approximately 13.75 x 10.25 inches. Publisher’s card wraps. Profusely illustrated in color.
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St. Niersis Claiensis. Preces S. Niersis Claiensis Armeniorum Patriarchae Viginti Quatuor Linguis Editae. [Venice:] Insula S. Lazari, 1823. Second edition. 16mo (approx. 3.75 x 6 inches). 422pp (indexed). Engraved frontispiece depicting St. Nierses Claiensis. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine and boards lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt.....
[Universalist Church] Universalist Register and Almanac for 1840. [A. B. Grosh, editor]. Universalist Register and Almanac; Containing the Statistics of the Denomination for 1840. Utica: Grosh & Hitchinson, [1939]. First edition. 16mo (approx. 6.5 x 4 inches). 36pp. Publisher’s paper self-wraps, stringbound.
The Quiver: an Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading. London: Cassell & Company, 1888. First edition. Quarto. 956pp. Illustrated, color frontispiece. Bound in later brown half-leather over brown cloth boards, gilt-stamped title to spine, speckled edges.
Isaac Watts. Divine and Moral Songs for Children. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. First edition. Octavo. [116]pp. Profusely illustrated by various artists. Publisher’s green decorative cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, all edges gilt, endleaves in yellow, housed in crude handmade dust wrapper.