Paris: Antoine Verard, 1497-1510. Leather bound. Worn and ancient leather with vellum sheets. 215 x 145 mm Possibly lacking a frontis and a colophon. Text is 28 lines. Printer's device within an architectural frame; + Anatomical Man within a frame; + 12 Large illustrations within a frame; and 4 with..... More
Religions and Religious People
A Brief Account of the Rise of the Society of Friends
Philadelphia: Friends' Book Store, 1889. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Gilt lettering on front cover; 57 pp.; No illustrations. More
A Brief Memoir Concerning Abel Thomas, A Minister of the Gospel of Christ in the Society of Friends, Compiled From Authentic Documents
Philadelphia: Benjamin & Thomas Kite, 1824. Hardcover. Boards; 51 pp.; No illustrations. More
A Brief Memoir Concerning Abel Thomas, a Minister of the Gospel of Christ in the Society of Friends, Compiled from Authentic Documents.
Philadelphia: Benjamin & Thomas Kite, 1824. Hardcover. Grey boards with leather spine; 51 pp. with no illustrations. More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments
New York: Abradale, 1959. Hardcover. Blue leather covers. 856, 276, 229 pages illustrations plates (some color) color map. Rembrandt Edition. More
The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of The Original Tongues: and With The Former Translations Diligently compared and revised (Webb Family Bible)
Trenton: Printed and Sold by Isaac Collins, 1791. Hardcover. Full brown leather with diced boards, red leather gilt lettered title applied to leather spine. The first Bible printed in New Jersey, the second quarto King James Bible printed in America, and the best known product of the eighteenth-century New Jersey..... More
Inventory of Church Archives, Society of Friends in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Historical Survey, 1941. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards; Gilt lettering on spine and front covering; 397 pp.; 2 bw figures. More
Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Eastern Parts of Maryland.
Philadelphia: 1907. Hardcover. Brown embossed cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; 207 pp.; No illustrations. This is not a print-on-demand or digital edition! Scarce copy of this book, printed expressly for the 1907 yearly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia. Includes 8-page "Revisions of Discipline, from 1910 to fourth month..... More
Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia
Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Chapman, 1856. Hardcover. Brown embossed cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; 138 pp.; No illustrations. This is not a print-on-demand or digital edition! Scarce copy of this book, printed expressly for the 1856 yearly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia. More
Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia
Philadelphia: 1868. Hardcover. Brown embossed cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; 138 pp.; No illustrations. This is not a print-on-demand or digital edition! Scarce copy of this book, printed expressly for the 1868 yearly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia. More
Rules of Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia
Philadelphia: 1877. Hardcover. Brown embossed cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; 136 pp.; No illustrations. This is not a print-on-demand or digital edition! Scarce copy of this book, printed expressly for the 1877 yearly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia. More
Youthful Pilgrims: Or, Memorials of Young Persons of the Society of Friends
Philadelphia: Association of Friends For The Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1858. Softcover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering at spine and imprinted decoration to covers; 127 pp.; No illustrations. Accounts of the lives and religious dedication of young people after their deaths. More
The Master of Mary of Burgundy: A Book of Hours for Engelbert of Nassau, the Bodleian Library, Oxford
New York: George Braziller, 1970. Hardcover. Blue boards with silver lettering and illustration; white slipcase with black lettering and color illustration; [191] pp.; richly illustrated. "Contains 115 facsimile reproductions from MS. Douce 219-220 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford." -- WorldCat. More
Das Neue Testament unseres Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi
Stuttgart: Stuttgarter Vereins-Buchdruckerei, 1907. Hardcover. Dark leather binding with blind tooled board decoration and gilt spine lettering. 5 spine compartments. 508, 127 pp. German. Gilt edges. Printed endsheets. From the Martin Luther translation. Reviewed by the German Evangelical Church Conference. The new testament of the Christian Bible. More
The Rastafarians: Sounds of Cultural Dissonance
Boston: Beacon Press, 1977. Hardcover. Green cloth with black lettering on the spine; white DJ with colorful illustration and pink and black lettering; xxiv, 257 pp.; illustrations. "The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of..... More
The Doctrines of Friends: Or, Principles of the Christian Religion, as Held by the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers
Mountpleasant, Ohio: printed and published by the author, 1825. First. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards, library binding; 320 pp.; No illustrations. More
The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age 1865-1920
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976. Hardbound. Heather cloth boards with blue-gray DJ, [ix] 301pp, no illustrations. More
Schopfung; Ein Buch Fur Religiose Ausdruckskunst
Berlin: Furche-Verlag, 1923. Hardcover. Orange boards with brown cloth spine, with black lettering; viii, 181 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German. More
Sermons du pere Bourdaloue, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Pour les dimanches - Volume 3
Paris: 1716. Hardcover. Leather covers, 5 ridge spine with gilt accents. 486 pp and table of sermons (unpaged). Text in French. This is volume 3 only. Edited by Father François Bretonneau after Quérard. Title translated: Sermons of Father Bourdaloue,of the Society of Jesus. For Sundays. More
Sermons du Pere Bourdaloue, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Pour les Dimanches - Volume 4
Paris: 1716. Hardcover. Leather covers, 5 ridge spine with gilt accents. 519 pp and table of sermons (unpaged). Text in French. This is volume 4 only. More
Sermons du Pere Bourdaloue, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Pour les Dimanches - Volume 2
Paris: 1716. Hardcover. Leather covers, 5 ridge spine with gilt accents. 486 pp and table of sermons (unpaged). Text in French. This is volume 2 only. More
Fields of Peace
New York: Dutton, 1973. Paperback. White wraps with black and white photo-illustration and black lettering; 159 pp.; richly illustrated. "Lyric prose and sensitive photographs blend in this book to produce a luminous and illuminating portrait of the Pennsylvania Dutch Germans (popularly and erroneously called 'Pennsylvania Dutch'). Millen Brand's text describes..... More
Jo. Francisci Buddei Institutiones theologiae dogmaticae
Francofurti et Lipsiae: 1741. Hardcover. Leather, 5 band raised spine. [7], 1320 pp, [20] pages illustrations. Text in Latin. A lengthy piece of theology, touching on various theological beliefs and theories, primarily relating to Christianity. More
Minnetonka Songs: A Collection of the Choicest Music for Sabbath Schools
Cincinnati, OH: John Church & Co., 1879. Hardcover. Tan paper boards with black lettering; brown cloth spine; 127 (1) pp. Compiled especially for the Minnetonka Sabbath School Assembly by I.H. Bunn and John F. Merry. Includes index. More
Blessed Art Thou Among Women: The Life of the Virgin Mother Illustrated By One Hundred And Fifty Masterpieces of the World's Greatest Painters...
Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Co., 1916. green cloth boards w/ decorative gilt; gilt spine printing. 315 pgs w/ bw plates; xxxiii of closing index. all edges gilt. From the library of a renowned statuary company. Plates missing: Nativity Of The Virgin / Murillo, page 19; St. Anne Teaching The..... More