[Rarebooks] RELIGIOUS LIST

[Garry R Austin]

A SHORT SELECTION 
OF INTERESTING RELIGIOUS BOOKS


ALL ARE OFFERED POSTPAID, 
PRICES IN CATALOGUE ARE RETAIL BUT THE TRADE DISCOUNT OF 20% APPLIES


A Layman. (Thomas Cogan). LETTERS TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. M. P. ON THE DOCTRINE OF HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY. Boston: J. Nancrede printed by Manning and Loring, 1799. First edition. Duodecimo. Quarter brown leather and marbled boards. 132pp. including 7pp. Nancrede's ads.  Moderate edge wear, corners worn. Spine worn and rubbed but "Letters" in gilt readable. Last leaf of ads trimmed without any loss of text. Toning. Gift Inscription on the front free fly leaf; Eben Francis Cambridge Mass. gift of L. B. Sparhawk... 1806". A second ownership name appears at top right of the title page; "Charles Coffin".  Thomas Cogan (1736–1818) was an English nonconformist physician, a founder of the Royal Humane Society and philosophical writer. His Letters to William Wilberforce..., by a Layman (pseud. i.e. T. Cogan), in which he denounced the view supported by William Wilberforce in his Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians, and argued for the happiness of all mankind. These letters originally appeared in 1799, and were printed in cheap editions for Unitarian book societies. Evans 35318 $450.00  

Necker, Mr. OF THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. Boston: Press of Thomas Hall, 1796. First edition. Duodecimo. Full tree calf with a red spine label. 230pp. (ii). Moderate edge wear, corners worn. Spine worn at ends. Toning. Upper rear joint started but still firmly attached. Faint water stain affects the first 50 pages. A better copy that it appears in catalogue.  Ornamental devices at the beginning and end of the text. Advertisement states; "In rendering this work into English, some liberties have been taken by the translator, which seemed necessary to preserve the original."; That translator was Mary Wollstonecraft. Her translation was executed in 1788. Evans 30835. $225.00

(Inscribed). Coxe, Rev. A. Cleveland.  CHRISTIAN BALLADS. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1865. Revised edition. Octavo, full embossed pebble grained morocco, gilt. Marbled endpapers, all edges, gilt. 235pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece plus thirteen full page plates and numerous decorations. Plates by John A. Hows, engraved by Bobbet & Hooper. Very good. Lightly rubbed. Mounted on the front paste-down is an original photograph of the author measuring approx. 5 3/4” x 4”. On the last blank, the author has written; “Permit the author of the verses preceding to write his name, here, as the owner’s faithful friend. A. Cleveland Coxe. Mar. 1890. Bro. W. N. York”. A nice copy.  $200.00


Wilson, James Russel. SAN FRANCISCO'S HORROR OF EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE... Np: Memorial Publishing Company, (1906). First edition. Octavo, red cloth, lettered in gilt with a pictorial inset. Marbled edges and endpapers. 416pp. Illustrated in black and white. Very good. A bright copy. $45.00

Drummond, Henry. NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. New York: J. B. Alden, Publisher, 1887. Octavo. Publisher’s decorated dark rose cloth, gilt. 285pp. Spine faded. Edge wear and corners bumped. This copy signed by Drummond and dated August, 1887 on the front free fly leaf. Signed copies are quite scarce. Early and influential speculations on the relationship between science and religion. $150.00 

Channing, William E. (Edited by Henry A. Miles). THOUGHTS SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF REV. WILLIAM E. CHANNING. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1856. 16mo, black embossed boards, gilt. All edges gilt. 160pp. “Ten thousand”. Very good.  $20.00

Allen, Joseph. QUESTIONS ON SELECT PORTIONS OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1834. Sixth edition. 16mo, blue cloth and paper covered boards. 117pp. Very good. Foxing.   $25.00

(Johnson, Elizabeth). EXERCISES FOR PRIVATE DEVOTION. Boston: Samuel G. Simpkins, 1845. Second edition. Duodecimo. Publisher's brown patterned cloth, gilt. 126pp. Very good. Some wear to rear cover. Long gift inscription to Miss Elizabeth Thomas from the author on the front free fly leaf dated August 16, 1845 at Boston. $95.00

Zimmerman, M. SOLITUDE CONSIDERED WITH RESPECT TO ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MIND AND ON THE HEART...TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE LIFE OF ZIMMERMAN. Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1804. First American edition, translated from the French by J. B. Mercier. Octavo. Full calf. 307pp. (iii), including an advertising leaf of books published by Bumstead. Moderate wear. Toned. Treatise on the search for happiness and peace. Ownership signatures and a small printed label state that this book belonged to John Hyde of Lancaster, (Mass). $95.00

White, William. LIFE OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, TOGETHER WITH, A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF HIS WRITINGS, BOTH PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880. Duodecimo. Publisher’s green cloth in a ribboned pattern, gilt. 266pp. Very good. A bit of abrasion at edges. Distributed by the “American New Church Tract and Publication Society” $15.00 

Upham, Thomas C. JAHN’S BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY TRANSLATED FOM THE LATIN WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1823. First edition. Octavo. Quarter leather and marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Marbled endpapers. xvi, 532pp. A solid copy. Corners bumped, edges worn. Front free marbled leaf lacking. A scarce book in the first edition, there were subsequent editions through the 1820s and 1830s. Upham was Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, and of the Hebrew Language at Bowdoin College. $125.00

Anonymous.  WILLY THE WANDERER. Salem: D. B. Brooks and Brother, 1856. Duodecimo, publisher’s embossed green cloth, gilt. 144pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece and six black and white plates. Moderate wear. Toned.   $25.00

Spurgeon, C. H.  JOHN PLOUGHMAN'S TALK; OR PLAIN ADVICE FOR PLAIN PEOPLE. New York: Sheldon & Company, (c1869). Duodecimo, publisher’s embossed terra-cotta cloth, gilt. 177pp. plus 14pp. of book advertising, mostly children's subjects. Very good. Minor edge wear. $45.00

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