Religione e teologia

The Nature of Belief

F. R. Tennant · 1943 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London , The Centenary Press, 1943. Cloth. The Nature of Belief by F. R. Tennant. In unclipped dustwrapper. Part of the Christian Challenge Series. A short but comprehensive study on the mind of the believer by Dr. Tennant whose experience lay in both psychology and theology. ...

The Art of Garnishing Churches at Christmas and Other Festivals

Edward Young Cox · 0 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London , Cox and Sons, c1871. Cloth. An illustrated third edition of this work on the decoration of churches. With 40 plates including eight full colour plates. In a cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, sound with some rubbing. Dampstaining to boards. Spine sunned. H...

Sermons, Addressed Chiefly to Young Persons. With a Sermon and Appendix, on the Benefit of Scriptural Instruction

Matthew Morris Preston, M. A. · 1837 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London , W. Crofts, 1837. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this interesting collection of sermons, intended for youngsters. Author's presentation copy, with inscription, "from the author" to front free endpaper. Sermons include "Happiness of the Man That Fi...

Le Nouveau Testament En Francois Avec Des Reflexions Morales Sur Chaque Verset

Anon · 1705 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Paris, Andre Pralard, 1705. Leather. A very scarce and complete set of this early eighteenth-century French New Testament. The nouvelle edition. With moral reflections on each verse. Complete in four volumes. In the original French. Pour en rendre la lecture plus utile, & la ...

A Collection of Such Answers and Discourses Wherein the Doctrine of the Church of England, Concerning Church Festivals and Baptizing Infants Is Defended Against Mr Cawdrey and Mr Tombes with a Collection of Such Answers and Replies Wherein the Book of Schisme Is Defended

Henry Hammond · 1757 · Rooke Books

£2,750.00 (€3,296.79 | $3,633.74 | ¥580,331)

London, R Royston, 1757. Leather. A very scarce collection of religious and critical essays by Henry Hammond. With two works bound as one to this volume. Both works contain early re-issues of previously individual publications. The first work to this volume contains several re...

The Portable Folio Family Bible

Rev. John Eadie; Rev. Walter M'Gilvray · 1857 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Glasgow, W. R. McPhun, 1857 . Leather. Lovely scarce family Bible, featuring countless notes and additions, bound in impressive full-morocco wraps. Scarce edition.In red full-morocco binding. With full-morocco wraps.Impressive Holy Bible including the commentaries of Scott and...

Service Book of the Western Eskimos

1949 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

Toronto, Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, 1949 . Cloth. Very scarce early Inuinakton-language edition of prayers and hymns from the central Canadian Arctic. New and enlarged edition.Very scarce. Only five editions held institutionally.In publisher's ...

The Song of a Dawning Day

Francis G. Hanchett · 1915 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Chicago, Privately Printed, 1915. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of this theosophical work, with illustrated endpapers. A very scarce first edition of this privately printed American title, printed at the Lakeside Press, in Chicago.In original quarter clo...

The Works of William Smith, D.D. Late Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia

William Smith · 1803 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Philadelphia, Hugh Maxwell and William Fry, 1803 . First edition. Cloth. Complete in two volumes, this is the scarce first edition of the posthumously published sermons of important American Episcopal priest William Smith. The scarce first edition of this work, complete in two...

A Course of Lectures; Delivered on the Six Sundays in Lent

R. Rev. John Skinner · 1786 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Aberdeen, J. Chalmers & Co, 1786 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the vanishingly scarce first edition of John Skinner's Episcopalian lectures, inscribed to pioneering American Episcopal Bishop Samuel Seabury. An inscribed author's presentation c...

De Exemptione Et Libertate Imperiali Monasterii S. Emmerami Et Martyr. Ratisbonae Dissertatio Altera Novo Et Inaudito Quod R.D. P. Hansiz Soc. Jes. Presbyter de Hoc Coenobio Novissime Finxit, Systemati Opposita

Joannes Baptista; R. D. P. Hansiz Soc. Jes. [Marcus Hansiz] · 1755 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Ratisbonae , Typis Joannis Viti Radlmayr, Aulici Episcopalis Typographi, 1755. Vellum. A very scarce copy of this 18th-century dissertation on the monastery and martyr Saint of St. Emmeram. Very scarce, with only two institutional copies found. A Latin treatise on Saint Emmer...

The Charitable Gift Funds Belonging to the Parish of Saint Botolph without, Bishopsgate, London

1883 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Newman & Son, 1883. Cloth. A very scarce record of the charitable gift funds of the church of St. Botolph in Bishopsgate, London. Very scarce work. A record of the charitable gift funds to St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, a Church of England church in the Bishopsgate Wi...

A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches

N. Brady; N. Tate · 1766 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, J. and J. March for Stationers, 1766. Leather. A beautiful eighteenth century binding for this pocket sized edition of this new version of the Psalms of David, fitted to music by Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate. Pocket sized miniature, in contemporary red calf with gilt....

The Mainz Psalters and Canon Missae 1457-1459

Sir Irvine Masson · 1954 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, The Bibliographical Society, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the printing of the Mainz Psalter and the Canon Missae, with folding plates. First edition. Illustrated with six folding tables and six folding plates to the rea...

English and Welsh Cathedrals

Thomas Dinham Atkinson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of English and Welsh Cathedrals, with colour plates. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eighteen colour plates, twenty black-and-white plates, and numerous plans. Col...

Mamecestre: Being Chapters from the Early Recorded History of the Barony, &C. Of Manchester

John Harland · 1861 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

Manchester, The Chetham Society, 1861-1865. Cloth. A collection of five volumes from The Chetham Society on the city of Manchester. Five volumes. Being volumes LIII, LVI, LVIII, LXIII, and LXV of the Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lanca...

Fabric Rolls and Documents or York Minster: Or, a Defence of "the History of the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter, York

John Bowne · 1863 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

York, Published by the Author, 1863. Cloth. A new edition of this detailed history of York Minster, with records of the documents and fabric rolls held. New edition, with additions and corrections. A detailed record of the contents of the fabric rolls and documents held in rel...

Dieu En Nous

Roaul Plus; R. P. Foch · 1924 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Toulouse, Apostolat de la Priere, 1924. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this work from French Jesuit priest and author, Raoul Plus, in the original French. French. Fiftieth thousand. A comprehensive religious study into the ide of God's presence inside of each individual...

The Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D.

Robert Sanderson; William Jacobson · 1854 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1854. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of this very scarce set collecting the religious and philosophical works of Robert Sanderson. The first edition of this very scarce work.Complete in six volumes.The collected works of Robert Sander...

A Defence of Reveal&Apos;D Religion Against the Exceptions of a Late Writer in His Book

John Conybeare · 1732 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, S. Wilmot; James and John Knapton, 1732 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of John Conybeare's response to Matthew Tindal's 'Christianity as Old as the Creation', in which he emphasises the importance of scripture. The first edition ...