Religione e teologia

A Letter to Mr. Britton, Minister at Downham, in the Isle of Ely

William Huntington · 1801 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, T. Bensley, 1801. First edition. Disbound. The very scarce first edition of this theological letter written by William Huntington to the minister Mr. Britton. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.Collated, complete.An intriguing pamphlet discussing the Bib...

A Sermon Preached at the Opening of St. Mary&Apos;S Catholic Church, in Derby, October 9, Mdcccxxxix

Nicholas Wiseman · 1839 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

Derby, James Storer, 1839. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce first edition of this interesting sermon delivered at the opening of a Catholic Church in Derby in 1839, by Nicholas Wiseman. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.Collated, complete.This se...

A Brief and Plain Exposition and Paraphrase of the Whole Book of the Revelation

Samuel Cradock · 1696 · Rooke Books

£7,500.00 (€8,991.24 | $9,910.21 | ¥1,582,722)

London, T Parkhurst, 1696. First edition. Leather. A very scarce, first edition of Samuel Cradock's exposition of the Book of Revelation. Here he dissects the book from a Nonconformist lens. John Evelyn was a contemporary of Samuel Pepys, whose diary did not cover a perio...

Archiepiscopi Tarraconensis Dialogorum Libri Duo de Emendatione Gratiani

Antonii Augustini [Antonio Augustin y Albanell] · 1672 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€929.10 | $1,024.06 | ¥163,548)

Parisiis, Franciscus Muguetus Regis, 1672. Hardback. A very scarce edition of the humanist Augustinus' work criticising the Gratian Decree. In the original boards. The Decretum Gratiani, otherwise known as the Concordia Discordantium Canonum is a collection of canon law w...

History of the Lodge of Hengist

C J Whitting · 1897 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

Bournemouth, W Mate and Sons , 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this study of Hengist Lodge, a freemasonry lodge in Bournemouth England. Signed by the author, dedicated to another brother at the lodge to the recto of front endpaper. An advanced copy of the book...

Sermons, Doctrinal, Practical, and Experimental

Richard Bingham · 1835 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, R. B. Seeley and. W. Burnside, 1835. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this collection of sermons by the Curate of Holy Trinity Richard Bingham The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. A selection of sermons by Richard Bingham. This work...

Cobbett&Apos;S Legacy to Parsons; or, Have the Clergy of the Established Church an Equitable Right to the Tihes, or to Any Thing Called Church Property, Greater Than the Dissenters Have to the Same? and Ought There, or Ought There Not, to Be a Seperation of the Church Form the State? in Six Letters, Addressed to the Church-Parsons in General, Including the Cathedral and College Clergy and the Bishops

William Cobbett · 1835 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Not Stated, 1835. Leather. A collection of six letters by William Cobbett discussing the church in various aspects, in a smart crushed morocco binding. This is an interesting work containing letters from William Cobbett discussing various aspects of the Established Chu...

The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Or, Christianity Not As a Mystical Doctrine, But As a New Life-Conception

Count Leo Tolstoi; Leo Tolstoy; A. Delano [trans.] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Walter Scott, Ltd, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first English language edition copy of Tolstoy's compelling philosophical treatise. A very scarce copy of the first English language edition of Tolstoy's 1894 title, first published earlier that yea...

Jesu Chrisit Domini Nostri Novum Testamentum Sive, Novum Foedus

Theodoro Beza · 1713 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, Guil. Bowyer, impensis societatis Stationariorum, c1713. Leather. A very scarce Latin New Testament by Theodoro Beza. An extremely scarce edition of the New Testament. This work is Beza's Latin new Testament. This edition is closely cropped at the edges and theref...

Seek Ye First

Cardinal Griffin · 1949 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Sheed and Ward, 1949. Leather. A biographical work and historical look at the work of Cardinal Griffin. Vellum binding with gilt titles on spine. Crisp blue end papers with blue ribbon page marker. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. The book has beautiful gilt for...

The Offices, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland

Anon. · 1865 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1865. Leather. A very scarce religious text from the Nineteenth Century. Anonymously published. A list of readings, as well as official church notices and annotations as to how each should be performed and read. This volume makes for a fascinat...

The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days Throughout the Year

[John Keble] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Oxford; London, James Parker and Co. 1880. Leather. A collection of poems for the Sundays and feasts of the Christian liturgical year. Title page does not list author, as it was originally published anonymously. However, through the works success, its authorship soon became kn...

A Sure Guide to Hell. In Seven Sections. Containing Directions I. Parents in the Education of Their Children. II. To Youth. III. To Those Whose Minds Are Possessed with Envy and Malice, &C. IV. To a Good King. V. To First Ministers of State. VI. To the Clergy. And VII. To Young Ladies.

Belezebub · 1785 · Rooke Books

£790.00 (€947.08 | $1,043.88 | ¥166,713)

London, Peter Imp, 1785. Leather. A scarce edition of this satirical guide book to Hell, in a leather binding. Contains directions to; parents, youths, minds possessed with envy and malice, good kings, first ministers of state, clergy and young ladies. This is a comic attack o...

A Sermon Delivered at Pudsey in Yorkshire Sep 25 1782 by Philip Holland an Address on the Nature and Propriety of Ordination with Questions and Answers a Prayer and a Charge

Philip Holland; Joseph Dawson; William Turner; William Wood · 1782 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

Wakefield, Thomas Waller for Joseph Johnson, 1782. Leather. A scarce work of a Christian nature, in a half calf binding, with marbled boards. Comprising of: A sermon by Rev Philip Holland An address on the propriety of ordination with questions by Joseph Dawson and the answers...

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England

Anonymous · 1715 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, John Baskett, 1715. Leather. A lovely little old book of common prayer dating from the early eighteenth-century. With an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates throughout. Together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in church...

Bishop Jeremy Taylor&Apos;S Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

William Cave · 1840 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, George Virtue, 1840. Leather. A scarce copy of the revised edition of Taylor's Life of Christ, with Cave's Lives of the Apostles. Including fourteen engraved plates. Jeremy Taylor (15 August 1613 13 August 1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achie...

Christ or Caesar: A Letter to the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

A. D. Wagner · 1877 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

Brighton, White, 1877. Leather. A generally smart copy of A Letter to the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. By the Rev. A. D. Wagner, Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral, and Vicar of St. Paul's, Brighton. Second edition, with additions. Arthur Douglas Wagne...

The Book of Psalms

Anon · 1867 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London, George E Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867. Leather. A full morocco copy of this religious Victorian work. 'Translated out of the original Hebrew; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's Special Command&apos. With ...

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church the Whole Book of Psalms Collected Into English Metre a New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches

Anon · 1785 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

Oxford, Cambridge and London , W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1785-1790. Leather. A religious collection, containing the Book of Common Prayer from the Church of England, the Book of Psalms, and a new version of the Psalms, containing various hymns. Featuring a calendar; with a t...

Sermons

Charles Churchill · 1765 · Rooke Books

£167.99 (€201.39 | $221.98 | ¥35,451)

Dublin, A Leathley, J Hoey et al. 1765. Leather. A bright copy of the scarce Sermons by Charles Churchill, published posthumously. Bound in leather with gilt lettering. Includes The Dedication, an unfinished poem to William Warburton, bishop of Gloucester. Information from the...