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...
London: Printed for Edmund Parker, 1735 [&] London: Printed by J. Roberts, 1733. Later editions of both titles, but a fine example, in a handsome contemporary binding.
Boston: Charles Bowen, 1832. First edition. American Imprints 11710, which describes the title slightly differently. Eleven discourses by the influential New England clergyman William Ellery Channing (1780-1842), inscribed on the front free endpaper to his peer in the clergy Joseph Tuckerman (1778-1840): "Joseph Tuckerman / from his sincere friend /...
[London, n.p.] Printed in the Year, 1649. First edition. Wing C-4679; ESTC R209208; not in NCBEL. A treatise attributed to poet John Cleveland, written after the execution of Charles I in 1649, on the complexities of swearing loyalty to a commonwealth rather than to a king, and the changes in...
London: Printed for T. Woodward and J. Peele, 1725. First edition. NCBEL II, 1770. An important 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 to...
London: Printed for R. Robinson, 1719. First edition. 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 and biographer who...
Hartford: Published by Cooke and Co. and Packard and Butler, 1830. First American edition. American Imprints 1185. ¶ A wide-ranging religious and philosophical work on the state of man, with reflections on the requirements for a civil society for succeeding generations. This work is apparently by James Douglas, fourth Baron...
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...
London: Printed by Hughes and Robinson, 1848. First edition. OCLC records three 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 one Charles Empson, who had apparently traveled to Egypt and had written...
(San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1927). First edition, number 19 of 250 numbered copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Magee, Grabhorn Press Bibliograpy, 91. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "All good wishes to Yehudi Menuhin / from his friend / Albert M. Bender / 1933." Bender (1866-1836)...
(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: 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...