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A Guide to Eternity:
Extracted out of the Writings of the Holy Fathers, and Ancient Philosophers. Written originally in Latine, by John Bona: and now done into English, by Roger L’Estrange Esq; the Second Edition.
London, Henry Brome, 1680.
Second Edition in English. 12mo (133 x 67 mm), pp. [xii], 188, [4], advertisements, preliminary leaves including additional engraved title-page; engraved frontispiece and pp. [xlvi], 108, [2], 126, [4] advertisements, the frontispiece to the second work shaved close to the image (but not touching it) but with loss to some of the caption below the image, in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled edges, with the Hayhurst bookplate.
Guide to Eternity: Wing B3545; ESTC r23243, at BL, CUL, Bodleian, King’s Lynn; Harvard, Huntington, Union Theological, Illinois and Yale.
Precepts: Wing B3553; ESTC r17339, at BL, CUL, Downside, Bodliean and Sion College; Columbia, Folger, Huntington, Union Theological, Clark, Illinois and Yale.More details Price: £1,200.00 -
Earnest Advice, particularly to Persons who live in an habitual Neglect of Our Lord’s Supper, considered as a commemorative Sacrifice inseparable from Christianity, and as a Preservative against superstitious Fears, and the immoral Practices, which deface the Glory of our Country, and darken our Prospects of a Life to come. In Forty-Nine Letters. By Jonas Hanway, Esq. London, Dodsley, 1778.
First Edition. 12mo, (172 x 96mm), engraved frontispiece and pp. xiv, x, 11-240, title-page and frontispiece a little stained, some other marks in the text, but generally fairly clean, in contemporary calf, bound for Hanway by his second binder, the monogram ‘I.H.S.’ gilt within a diamond of stars on the front cover, the diamond mirrored on the back cover with a winged hourglass as a centre piece, gilt floral corner pieces on both covers, spine gilt in compartments with continuous chequered and sunburst pattern, red morocco label lettered in gilt, the gilt fairly faded and binding generally a little worn, with the contemporary ownership inscription ‘Jn Fox’ on the title-page.
ESTC t65278, listing BL, Cambridge, Bodleian; Columbia, Harvard, McMaster and Yale.
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L’Ecclésiastique Citoyen; ou Lettres sur les moyens de rendre les personnes, les établissemens & les biens de l’Eglise encore plus utiles à l’Etat & meme à la Religion. Londres, 1785.
First Edition. 12mo (185 x 110 mm), pp. [iv], xx, 4 [ie. 21-24], 25-480; uncut throughout, in contemporary blue and orange patterned wrappers, paper signed ‘A Orleans chez Letourmi’, wrappers a little frayed in places, chipped along the lower part of the joints, original paper label, hand lettered, generally some wear but a lovely, unsophisticated copy.
Conlon: 85: 247; see R. Attal and A. Blanchard, ‘Le clergé du Soissonnais pendant la Révolution’, Fédération des sociétés d’histoire et d’archéologie de l’Aisne, Mémoires, XXXIV, 1989, p. 189.
ESTC n28874, listing BN and Harvard only; OCLC adds Berlin and NLS.
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Principes Politiques sur le rappel des Protestans en France,
par M. ***. Première [-Seconde] Partie.
Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1764.
Same Year as the First Edition. Two parts in one volume, 12mo, (160 x 90 mm), pp. [iv], 163, iv (épitre dédicatoire à Madame la *** misbound before p. 163); [iv], 144, with the half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black with the same engraved title vignette on each volume, text a little dampstained, particularly title-pages, binding slightly sprung between the volumes, in contemporary speckled calf, double filet gilt to covers, spine ruled in gilt with olive green morocco label lettered in gilt, paper shelf mark label at the foot of the spine, with the later Leipziger Stadtbibliothek bookplate and library stamps of Leipzig University and Bibliothek von Schloss Püchau, crossed through, from the library of Claude Lebédel.
See Cioranescu 62546 (1768 edition only); Quérard IX, 580; INED 4633.
More details Price: £400.00