Category: Bibles and Religion

"A Lesser-Known Hermit of Farne" being an article "St. Bartholomew of Farne" by Sr. Felicity, C.P.P. taken from "The Life of the Spirit"

Price: $350.00

Publisher: : December 1963

Seller ID: 006595

A striking homemade book, with wonderful watercolored illustrations filling the borders of every page of this hagiographic account of St. Barthomew. Oblong, 20 by 27 cm. Unpaginated, four leaves, with five pages of content, including front cover. The illustrations are folk art-ish and winsomely naive. We would suspect that the artist was not an accomplished artist, but he worked expertly within his artistic limitations to create something especially pleasing and immediate in its artistry. Cameos include depictions of monks, seals, skiffs, a cathedral and chapel, coastline, blackbirds, et...
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??????? ??? ???????????? ???????? [Prayers in the Divine Liturgy]

Price: $475.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, ??????????? ?????????? (Supodnoy Printing) : 1844

Seller ID: 004408

Binding: Full Velvet

Condition: Fine

A gorgeous deep blue velvet binding with blindstamped ornamentation and gilt border ruling, and all edges gilt. Near miniature, 9 by 5.5 cm. 58 pp. Other than a tiny piece of gilt border missing on rear board, pristine. Silk moire endpapers. Stamped on blank "Printed in Soviet Union", which would have been done to evade export restrictions or to avert confiscation given that this was a traditional religious book that would have been disapproved by the atheistic Soviet rulers.
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Antiphonarium Romanum de Tempore et Sanctis. Ad normam Breviarii ex Decreto Sacrosancti . . . .

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Venetiis (Venice), Typographia Balleoniana : 1791

Seller ID: 007377

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Good

Folio, 50 by 35 cm. 478, clvii pp. Printed in black and red. The same publisher issued earlier editions of this anthology of liturgical music beginning in the early 18th century, but this edition would appear considerably expanded from certainly the earliest edition. And in any edition institutional holdings are sparse, with OCLC First Search indicating holdings of some version of the Balleoniana imprint only at the British Library, the American Academy in Rome and one other library. Condition: calf is heavily worn. See pictures. Hinges broken but holding well. Leather straps to secure...
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Appearance and Principle; Or, a Sketch of Three Young Ladies at School, and in Subsequent Life

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Carlton & Porter

Seller ID: 004023

Binding: Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Scarce, with only one copy located on OCLC FirstServe, at Ohio Wesleyan University. N.d., circa 1850. 12mo. 15 by 10 cm. 56 pp. Avoid the scourge of affectation! The fate of three ladies with differing characters and how character plays into one's success in life. Some foxing, mostly clean.
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Image for Biblia Sacra, Ad optima quaeque veteris, & vulgate translationis exeplaria summa diligentia, pariq; fide castigata. Cum Hebraicorum, Caldaorum & Graecorum nominu interpretatione.

Biblia Sacra, Ad optima quaeque veteris, & vulgate translationis exeplaria summa diligentia, pariq; fide castigata. Cum Hebraicorum, Caldaorum & Graecorum nominu interpretatione.

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: Lyon, Apud Guliel : 1567

Seller ID: 002001

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

8vo. [16], 1176 pp. Followed by long unpaginated glossary and index. With many woodcut illustrations throughout, varying sizes, with sometimes nearly full page to small vignettes, and often two or more illustrations on a page. Modern vellum that with Gothic lettering on spine, is compatible with the 16th century text. Text block is tight. Some soiling near front in lower corner and scattered soiling beyond, but for age toning, the text is quite clean. The woodcuts are of varying sharpness, but that is a function of their printing.
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Birya. Ciudadela de la Redencion

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Beunos Aires, Keren Kayemeth Leisrael : 1946

Seller ID: 006666

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Miniature brochure about a Eretz Israel (pre-Independence) hamlet on the Sea of Galilee, produced for the Latin American diaspora, and in Spanish. Measuring 8 by 6 cm.
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Costumi della corte Pontificia

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Roma, : 1846

Seller ID: 004231

Binding: Paper Pastedown on folder

Condition: Near Fine

Leporello with 30 hand-colored images of Vatican costume, in addition to title with lovely colored decoration and cameo portrait of Gregorio XVI, which also helps date this as 1846 or earlier. The last leaf is pasted to a folder, which in this case has a distinctive faux burled wood (walnut-like) finish. The imagery is sharp, bright and clean. Some wear to the joints of the outer folder.
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Costumi della Corte Pontificia

Price: $1,650.00

Publisher: Roma, A. Depolette

Seller ID: 005297

Binding: Quarter Calf. Marbled Boards.

Condition: Very Good Plus

N.d., circa 1840. Large paper version: folio, 34 by 23.5 cm. With 62 hand-colored costume plates, plus engraved title page with hand-colored vignette and dedication page with hand-colored portrait of Pope Pio IX. These images of Vatican dress, both which cover both ecclessiastic and military costume, are generally encountered in a far smaller, leporello format, with also fewer images -- typically thirty plates. In this other guise, the target audience were the many tourists who paid a visit to Rome and were enamored with a pocket souvenir. The diminutive leporello assuredly exudes enorm...
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Image for Das Grosse Leben Christi, oder Ausfuhrliche/Andachtige/Bewegliche und ganz vollkommene Beschreibung des Allerheiligsten Lebens und bittern Lendens Unsers Herrn Jesu Christi, und seiner Glorwurdigsten Liebsten Mutter Maria, usw. [Zusammen mit] Nutzlicher Dusatz zu dem Leben Christi, von denen Vier letzen Dingen: Nemlich von dem Tod, Gericht, Holl, und Himmelreich.

Das Grosse Leben Christi, oder Ausfuhrliche/Andachtige/Bewegliche und ganz vollkommene Beschreibung des Allerheiligsten Lebens und bittern Lendens Unsers Herrn Jesu Christi, und seiner Glorwurdigsten Liebsten Mutter Maria, usw. [Zusammen mit] Nutzlicher Dusatz zu dem Leben Christi, von denen Vier letzen Dingen: Nemlich von dem Tod, Gericht, Holl, und Himmelreich.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Mainz and Frankfurt, Johann Hoffners : 1746

Seller ID: 001326

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Good

740, 216 pp. With 77 copper plate engravings and a portion (about 25 percent) of a map of Jerusalem, showing the walls of the ancient city, Pilate's palace, the Garden of Gethsemane, etc. Two books bound together. The book is printed in a variety of differing type fonts which differentiate such things as the prayers for feast days from the narrative of Christ's life and lives of those in his circle. Full Brown calf with raised bands at spine and remnants of straps and clasps over real wooden boards. Boards professionally repaired. Leather heavily scuffed and rubbed, with considerable dry...
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Dutch Baptismal Announcement with Intricate Penwork

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: The Netherlands, : 1722

Seller ID: 007397

Binding: Framed

Condition: Near FIne

A stunning Dutch Baptismal document with artistic penmanship forming the elaborate surrounding decoration. Two angles with trumpets grace the upper corners in postures quintessential to Rococo gracefulness. Below are six drawings of birds, peacocks, swans, perhaps geese if not juvenile swans. The images are outlined and filled out with suave, smooth, sinewly lines, these lines in one sense being so artificial, on the other, concocting what seduces our eye into perceiving as nearly realistic. Other decoration include as a crowning centerpiece a laurel joined by ribboning, a vignette of a he...
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German Manuscript Prayerbook

Price: $2,000.00

Seller ID: 007307

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Fair

A supremely beautiful Folk Art prayerbook, circa 1800. No location, but we would surmise from Bohemia or thereabouts, given the inclusion of an illustration of St. Wenceslaus, in addition to the book's similarity to other such manuscripts we know to be from this area. 12mo. Title, 150 pages, paginated, missing leaves 10/11, 14/15, 44/45 and lower half (torn off) of 26/27. Decoration on the vast majority of pages, with 15 or 16 full page illustrations, and 14 or 15 smaller vignettes. Other pages with simple border ornamentation, generally at the top. Almost all of the full page illustrat...
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Handbook on Personal Evangelism Each One Win One Campaign of Personal Evangelism of the Disciples of Christ in America to Win 100,000

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: 003313

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Man lives not by bread alone. But a little bread -- or a lot of bread -- isn't so bad to think about now and then. 15 by 8 cm. 24 pp. plus wraps. A how-to-do-it-yourself on evangelism, tied to a campaign meant to suggest a sweepstakes of $100,000,although this would seem to be a little false advertising or a deliberately misleading pitch, since no where are dollars actually mentioned. But what means are justified when the ends are divine? The booklet is full of practical information such as baptism requirements, and an abundance of handy biblical citations.
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Heures du Moyen Age

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Gruel & Engelmann : 1887

Seller ID: 001295

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Fine

Lavish 19th century rendering of a Book of Hours using bright chromolithography that cogently replicates the exquisite detail, sublimity and sheer miraculousness of the Medieval biblio staple. Each of the 192 plates (including title page) is unique with the high Gothic ornamentation that is usually encountered only under glass at better art museums. Usually the ornament frames Gothic type of the text in French and Latin, but occasionally the framed is instead a miniature painting. Credits for this production are Engelmann, artistic director and chromolithography; painting, Ed. Moreau; actua...
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History of the Bible

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Hartford, Julius Gilman : 1827

Seller ID: 001350

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

178 pp, each measuring 2 by 1.5 inches, 52 by 40 mm, with 11 woodcut plates. With bookplate of Cornelius J. Hauck Collection, thus providing a distinguished provenance. This collection was formed between 1945 and 1965 to document the history of the book. The private collection was put together under the guidance of the highly regarded bookseller Emil Offenbacher. The collection was given to the Cincinnati Historical Society, which became the Cincinnati Museum Center, and it was deaccessed in 2006 by auction at Christie's (where it sold for $960). Hauck's family fortune was made in brewing...
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Jinshiki Hokan

Price: $900.00

Seller ID: 005319

Condition: Fair

Fabulous color woodblocks of Foo Dogs, screens, boxes, tea sets, swords, bows and arrows and other weaponry, banners, furniture, mats, carriages and chaises, horses, etc., with black and white imagery mostly architectural. We believe this is a work relating primarily to the Shinto Religion, but as clear from the wide assortment of imagery, this takes in a very broad swath of Japanese material culture at the time. 19th Century. 24.5 by 16.5 cm. 130 pp., 96 of which have woodblock prints, 47 of which are in color (some of the images are double paged, which we have counted as two pages). Ori...
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Life Among the Shakers

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Wemple & Company

Seller ID: 001388

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1880. 36 pp small brochure, including front and back cover which each feature a color lithograph, one of a child, the other, of a Sunday at Mount Lebanon, New York, where the Shakers had a community (today there is a Shaker Museum there). The account of Mary Carr forms just the springboard for a rambling first person discussion of the Shakers, where they have settled, their philosophy, their customs, their industry, with a particular focus on a panacea product created by a Mrs. Speigel which the Shakers have taken to manufacturing. The narrator of this exegesis is uncredited in...
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The Christian Garland; Or, A companion for Leisure Hours: Consisting of Original and Selected Pieces in Poetry and Prose. A New Edition.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society

Seller ID: 001653

Binding: Blindstamped and gilded cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1870. 12mo. v, 252 pp. With eight chromolithographic color plates of bouquets of flowers, fruits and shells. Plates engraved by Kronheim. Some fading of gilt on spine. Light wear to blue blindstamped cloth. Minor crack by frontis. One plate with small corner dampstain. Generally clean.
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The Manners and Customs of the Jews, and Other Nations Mentioned in the Bible. Illustrated with 120 Engravings.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hartford, Connecticut, Henry Benton : 1833

Seller ID: 004620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 18 by 11.5 cm. vi, 172 pp. Slight bubbling of the surface on the spine and boards. Light wear besides. Clean within.
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[Faux Books][Folk Art Mechanical Toy Book] Holy Bible

Price: $1,250.00

Seller ID: 004411

Binding: Wood boards.

Condition: Very Good

Highly unusual fun piece of folk art, with the "Bible" springing up with the touch of a lever. Most definitely one-of-a-kind! N.d., circa 1900, possibly earlier. In size, like a 4to. 33 by 25 cm, 14 cm thick. The bible resembles an early 19th century leather bible. Here, though, the boards and sides are of wood, with the spine a heavy cloth which is painted to look like leather, and with the paint looks not unlike a paper mache composition. The snap is on the fore-edge, with the metal lever on the top. All sides are painted in gilt. Moderate wear throughout, as befitting an ol...
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[Fore-edge Painting] Biblia Sacra Sive Testamentum Vetus ab im Tremellio et Fr. Junio ex Hebraeo Latine redditum et Testamentum Novum a Theod. Beza e Graeco in Latinum versum

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Johannes Jacob Schipper : 1669

Seller ID: 003281

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a tritych with the Madonna and infant Jesus at the center. 12mo. 15.5 by 10 cm. The contemporary calf is somewhat dry and crackled on the spine, with wear elsewhere, but still attractive. Small edge cut-out to a blank prelim page. Light scattered soiling but generally clean bible. The painting is discernible when the book is closed, although not nearly as sharp as when the pages are fanned.
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Category: Bibles and Religion