Boston: Printed by E. Edes & Sons, 1784. First edition. Evans 18319; Sabin 208; ESTC W37176. The first book by Hannah Adams (1755-1831), an interesting dictionary to the religions and sects of the world written in a remarkably objective scholarly manner. There were subsequent editions, entitled A View of Religions.....
Boston: In N.E. Re-printed by S. Kneeland for Benj. Eliot, at his Shop in King Street, 1720. First American edition. Evans 2121; ESTC W3563, which records nine locations in the U.S. (AAS, Boston Athenaeum, BPL, Houghton, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, LCP, MHS, LC and Yale). A collection of nine sermons.....
Boston: Published by T. Bedlington, 1816. First American edition. American Bibliography 37004. One of several works of Biblical philosophy by Thomas Tregenna Biddulph (1763-1838), a clergyman from Bristol who played an important role in the popularity of English provincial evangelicalism. See the ODNB.
Paris: Chez Emery, Saugrain, Pierre Martin, 1730. Volume 23 of 36 of a famous and relatively common work (i.e., a doorstop) of 18th century French theology. This odd volume is of interest because it has been made into a "Book Safe," which is described by Sidney E. Berger in the.....
London: Printed by J. Hart and Sold by J. Lewis, 1745. First edition. ESTC T115907 records two copies (John Rylands and Yale). A dialogue about antinomianism by the prolific English theologian William Cudworth (?1717-1763). Contemporary ink signature of Wm. Rainsdon above the title.
Hartford: Published by Oliver D. Cooke, 1810. First edition. American Bibliography 20174. Dialogues and letters between Crispus and Gaius on moral, theological and philosophical subjects, followed by essays and conversations between Peter and James on imputation, substitution and redemption.
London: Printed for B. and J. White, 1796. First edition. ESTC T138168; NCBEL II, 1561. Three clever dialogues by William Gilpin (1724-1804), the educator and writer on the picturesque, purporting to be conversations between one Dr. Joseph Frampton and the famous theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), as copied from.....
London: Printed by Joseph Hartnell for N. Jones, 1806 [volume 1]; London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Williams, 1803-1806 [volumes 2-4]. Fifth edition of volume one; fourth editions of volumes two, three and four. A popular series of 37 dialogues that deal with a variety of subjects: the evils.....
London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848. First edition. OCLC records four copies (Duke, Columbia and London Library). ¶ An elaborate attempt to defend a literal interpretation of the Bible in the form of an eccentric attack on Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written about.....
London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. A widely reprinted tract by the Quaker minister Sophia Hume (1702-1774), who was born and bred in luxury in Charleston, South Carolina, but cast off her material lifestyle.....
London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1681. Second edition; the first was published in 1680. Wing L1210; ESTC R2207; NCBEL II, 1037. A satire on controversial minister and theological writer Richard Baxter.
London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1680. Second edition; the first was published earlier in 1680. Wing L1217; ESTC R179467; NCBEL II, 1037. A dialogue between Zekiel and Ephraim about Roger L’Estrange himself, under the guise of a polite conversation about his opinions.
(Boston:) Printed for the Commission (by D. B. Updike, the Merrymount Press), 1930. The first of this edition, one of 500 copies printed. ¶ One of the great monuments of the career of printer Daniel Berkeley Updike and considered one of the finest examples of 20th century American book design.....
London: Imprinted by his Majesties Special Privilege and Command, 1663. Separate edition of a dialogue first published in 1615 in English and Latin. ESTC R10350; Wing M2302. A dialogue between Theodidactus and Philalethes in which they debate the merits of the church's oath of allegiance. Traditionally attributed to theologian and.....
London: Printed by James Flesher, 1668. First edition, one of two issues. ESTC R17163; Wing M2650; NCBEL I, 2335. A philosophical-theological discussion in three dialogues between Cuphophron, Hylobares, Philopolis, Sophron and other Greek-named interlocutors by the poet, theologian and philosopher Henry More (1614-1687), published under the pseudonym Franciscus Evistor Palaeopolitanus.....
London: Printed, Anno, 1628. First edition, one of two issues, the difference being the spelling of "needs" on page 19. STC 20477.5. A rare and early work by pamphleteer and lawyer William Prynne (1600-1669), who was tried twice by the Star Chamber for sedition, but later served in the government.....
Patavii [Padua, Italy]: Typographia Seminaria, 1698. First edition. The famous work of Quranic scholarship by Ludovico Marracci. Marracci's Quran was the first to publish the entire Arabic text with a Latin translation, to which Marracci added extensive notes. In the second volume, Refutatio Alcorani, Marracci systematically refutes the tenets of.....
London: Printed for T. Woodward and J. Peele, 1725. First edition. ESTC T36305; NCBEL II, 1770. A biography of the 17th century free-thinking English clergyman, William Chillingworth (1602-1644), who made significant contributions toward the advancement of religious tolerance in England. The biographer, Pierre Des Maizeaux (1673-1745), a journalist who came.....
London: Printed for R. Robinson, 1719. First and only edition. ESTC T36304; NCBEL II, 1770. This biography of John Hales (1584-1656), the scholar and clergyman known as the “Ever-Memorable,” is an early work in English (the first recorded in NCBEL) by the interesting Frenchman-turned-Englishman, Pierre Des Maizeaux (1672-1745), a journalist.....
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1803. First Isaiah Thomas edition; the first edition was published in 1788. American Bibliography 5604. Four dialogues by Universalist preacher Elhanan Winchester (1751-1797) on theological matters as discussed between a minister and a layman. They were immensely popular as teaching tools and were frequently reprinted in America.....