Religione e teologia

Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Sermons

John Abernethy · 1751 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, R Griffiths, 1751. First edition. Leather. The first collected edition of the scarce tracts and sermons, 'occasionally published', of the Presbyterian minister John Abernethy. By the 'author of The Discourses on the Being and Perfections of God&apos. Joh...

The Golden Grove, a Choice Manual Containing What Is to Be Believed, Desired or Practised, Prayed for. Also Several Festival Hymns in Two Parts

Jeremiah Taylor · 1761 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, J Knapton D Browne C Hitch et al. 1761. Leather. A religious work by English cleric Jeremy Taylor. This was written whilst Taylor was a private chaplain to Richard Vaughan 2nd Earl of Carbery. His mansion, Golden Grove is the title of this devotion manual. With an engr...

The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual

Rev William Ellis · 1837 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, Fisher, Son and Co. 1837-38. Fine Binding. Two uniformly-bound and very decorative volumes of the Christian annual, The Christian Keepsake. Containing the volumes for 1837 and 1838. Illustrated throughout with thirty-two engraved plates. Including The African Witness, ...

A New Universal History of the Rites, Ceremonies and Customs of the Whole World: Or, a Complete and Impartial View of All the Religions in the Various Nations of the Universe.

William Hurd · 1500 · Rooke Books

£670.00 (€803.22 | $885.31 | ¥141,390)

London, Alexander Hogg, c1790. Leather. A scarce early edition of Hurd's brilliant work on comparative religion and obscure religious practices. 'Both antient and Modern, from the Creation down to the present Time&apos. Featuring sixty copper engraved plates, collate...

The Legend of Saint Ursula and the Virgin Martyrs of Cologne

Edmund Hatfield · 1869 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London , John Camden Hotten, 1869. Cloth. A Victorian retelling of the legend of Saint Ursula. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and engraved borders to each page. Ursula's legend, probably unhistorical, is that she was a princess who, at the request of her father ...

Evolution As Outlined in the Archaic Eastern Records with Supplement: H.P. Blavatski. Introduction to the Secret Doctrine

Basil Crump · 1930 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Luzac and Co. 1930. First edition. Cloth. Evolution as outlined in the Archaic Eastern Records compiled and annotated by Basil Crump, with supplement Introduction to the Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatski to rear. Illustrated with black and white plates First editi...

Sermons on Various Religious and Moral Subjects, for All the Sundays After Pentecost with Illustrations

Anonymous · 1810 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London , Printed by Edward Walker, 1810. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce collection of Sermons on Various Religious and Moral Subjects, for all the Sundays after Pentecost with illustrations. First edition. Volume one of three. Two sermons and numerous illustrations to the...

The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven a Course of Lectures on the Gospel of St. Luke

Frederick Denison Maurice · 1893 · Rooke Books

£27.99 (€33.56 | $36.98 | ¥5,907)

London and New York, Macmillan and Co. 1893. Cloth. The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven A Course of Lectures on the Gospel of St. Luke by Frederick Denison Maurice. With extensive preface to front. John Frederick Denison Maurice, often known as F. D. Maurice (1805 - 1872), was...

An Answer in Defence of the Truth Against the Apology of Private Mass to Which Is Prefixed (As in the Original Edition) the Work Answered, Entitled an Apology of Private Mass an Anonymous Popish Treatise Against Bishop Jewel

T. Cooper; Edited by William Goode · 1850 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

Cambridge , The University Press, 1850. Cloth. A smart copy of this theological work on the importance of Mass. Edited for the Parker Society by William Goode. From the antiquarian library of Emeritus Professor David A. Palin of the University of Manchester (bookplate to front...

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead

J. G. Frazer, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D. · 1913 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1913. Cloth. A bright, clean first edition of The Belief in Immortality by Sir James George Frazer. This edition is the July 1913 Reprint. Sir James George Frazer, 1854 – 1941, was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of t...

The Defence of the Archdeacon of Taunton.

Joseph Masters · 1856 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Joseph Masters, 1856 . Cloth. A very scarce collection of papers documents and speeches read at the trial of G.A. Denison in the Prodiocesan Court of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. The defence of the Archdeacon of Taunton in answer to the charges preferred against him...

Unorrthodox London: Or, Phases of Religious Life in the Church of England

Rev. C. Maurice Davies · 1876 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London , Tinsley Brothers, 1876. Cloth. A copy of this religious work by Rev. C. Maurice Davies. Second edition, revised. Charles Maurice Davies (1828-1910) was an Anglican clergyman, a prolific author and a spiritualist. In a decorative burgundy cloth binding. Externally, gen...

The Petition of the English Roman Catholics Considered in Charge;

George Isaac Huntington · 1810 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.75 | $284.09 | ¥45,371)

London , Cadell and Davies et al, 1810. Cloth. A scarce copy of 'The Petition of the English Roman Catholics Considered in Charge; Delivered to the Clergy in the Diocese of Gloucester at the Triennial Visitation in the Month of June 1810' 'To the Reverend The Ar...

Eight Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge

Rev. Henry Howarth · 1837 · Rooke Books

£26.99 (€32.36 | $35.66 | ¥5,696)

Cambridge, John W. Parker, 1837. Cloth. A copy of Henry Howarth's Eight Discourses from the private collection of noted Theologian and Professor of Philosophy, David Arthur Pailin. According to the title-page, Henry Howarth had been a fellow of St John"s College, Cambridg...

The Temporal Advantages of Religion a Sermon Preach&Apos;D Before the Right Reverend and Right Honourable Nathanael Lord Crewe Lord Bishop of Durham and Baron of Stene, in the Chapel at Stene, July 2. 1721. Being the Anniversary of His Consecration, His Lordship Having Then Been Fifty Years a Bishop.

William Lupton · 1721 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

Oxford, Printed at the Theatre for Sam Wilmot, 1721. First edition. Cloth. A scarce religious work by William Lupton, featuring a sermon addressed to the Right Honourable Nathanael Lord Crewe Lord A scarce first edition. Rebound in black cloth with original leather spine. Nath...

The Messiah. Descriptive of the Principal Events Attending the Passion and Crucifixion of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

Fredriech Gottlieb Klopstock · 1724 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

London, J. and J. Cundee, c1811. Leather. An early nineteenth century English edition of Klopstock's Messiah with engraved plates and in a smart morocco binding. With eight plates, engraved frontis and additional engraved title page. Collated, complete. Dated from COPAC. ...

Les Evangiles de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ

Le Maistre De Sacy · 1837 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Paris , J. J. Dubochet, 1837. Leather. A handsome first edition thus of De Sacy's French translation of the gospels, beautifully illustrated by Theophile Fragonard. Fragonard has drawn intricate borders for every page of the book, alongside a frontispiece showing Jesus an...

Regia Via Crucis

Benedictus Van Haeften · 1728 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

Antwerp, Widow of Henricus Verdussen, 1728. Leather. An uncommon copy of Regia Via Crucis (Holy Cross) by Benedictus Van Haeften. With an illustrated title page, decorative pieces and further engravings integrated with text, each of which is accompanied by a passage from Scrip...

Tamieion Novi Testamenti

Caroli Hermanni Bruder · 1888 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Leipzig, Ernesti Bredtii, 1888. Fine Binding. A handsomely bound copy of the Greek New Testament. A handsomely bound copy of the Greek New Testament. In Latin and Greek. Stereotype edition, with many additions and revisions. Arranged in three columns per page. In an armorial t...

Concordantiae Bibliorum Sacrorum

F. P. Dutripon · 1861 · Rooke Books

£179.99 (€215.78 | $237.83 | ¥37,983)

Paris, Eugene Belin, 1861. Leather. A significant nineteenth-century concordance of the bible in Latin, bound in quarter morocco. A significant nineteenth-century concordance of the bible in Latin. Using the Vulgate. Based on the concordance ordained by Pope Sixtus V. In addi...