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Burgaw, North Carolina: John Roscoe Dail, (1984). First edition. Quarto (11" x 9"), 295 pages, with illustrations from photographs & a map. Publisher's comb-bound buff pictorial card covers.
Lightly soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good.
The author was a Presbyterian minister who served several churches from 1951 to 1981 throughout North Carolina.

Boston: Porter Sargent, (1935). First trade edition. Quarto (10.5" x 7.5"), 332 & [1] pages plus LXXX plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth.
Binding lightly soiled & sunned, bruise at the top edge of the lower cover, brief foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good.
An exhaustive account, chapters include: The Origin and Spread of Mosaic; The Characteristics and Technique of Classical and Christian Mosaics; Hellenistic and Roman Mosaics; Roman Mosaics from the Fourth to the Seventh Centuries; The Mosaics of Ravenna; Other Early Mosaics to the Seventh Century; The Seventh and Eighth Centuries; The Roman School of the Ninth Century; The Eleventh Century in the Near East; Sicilian Mosaics; Venetian and Florentine Mosaics; Roman Mosaics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; The Fourteenth Century; From the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century; Nineteenth Century and Modern Mosaics.

Oslo: H. Aschehoug; London: Kegan Paul, Trench; Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz; Paris: Societe D'Edition Les Belles Lettres; Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1951. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), xiii & 163 pages, illutrated (plates, maps). Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket.
Edges lightly rubbed, couple of corners bruised, text browned, binding cracking at p. 64/65 (still secure), otherwise good or better in price-clipped dust jacket browned (particularly at the spine), with edge wear including nicks & small losses, still good or so.
The author was an architect & archaeologist who notes in the preface that "After Rome Salona is the most important urban area on European soil for the studies in archaeology of early Christianity ..."

New York: Wellfleet Books, (1989) Facsimile edition Folio, five volumes, variously paginated, bound in one: 1 Jerusalem -- 2 Galilee & Lebanon -- 3 Judea & Jordan River --4 Samaria & Idumea (Petra) -- 5 The Desert (Negev & Sinai). Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket & slipcase. A fine copy in like dust jacket Slipcase lightly rubbed & bruised at the corners, very good or better. "In this lavishly illustrated book, with over 120 color plates, the reader can retrace the artistic and courageous steps of Roberts on this adventurous eleven month journey from 1838 - 1839, through the Holy Land where he had permission to enter whichever sacred mosque or monument he desired ." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Milan: Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, (1999). Two volumes, folios, xxxii, 204; 381 pp., profusely illustrated in color including numerous folding plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth, in pictorial dust jackets, lacking slipcases Light shelf wear, otherwise very good or better in like dust jackets The Iron Crown contains a band of iron supposedly fabricated from a nail used at the crucifixion of Jesus Volume I, issued in 1995, is not offered here International shipping by quote only, please inquire

Beyrouth: Cahiers de l'Est, (1985) First edition. 4to, 376 pp & 64 unnumbered pages of plates (some color). Original pictorial stiff paper wraps. Text in French. Slight edge wear, presentation inscription in ink at half-title page to Middle East policy expert Ronald McLaurin (illegibly signed), otherwise Near Fine. Editor & contributor Camille Aboussouan was Ambassador of Lebanon to the UNESCO & additionally a bibliophile whose library was sold at Sotheby's London in 1993

Paris: J. Mallet et Cie, 1841. "Edition Illustree." Quarto (10.5" x 7.25"), xx & 525 pages including numerous illustrations in text plus 18 plates only (of 20 per list) printed on China paper & mounted to light card stock. Contemporary half black morocco & pebbled green cloth, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or ruled in gilt in all compartments. Top edge gilt. Text in French.
Binding rubbed, corners bruised, foxing (heavy at times), lacking two plates per list but no evidence of removal, previous owner's name & date in pencil at the recto of the frontis, otherwise good.
First published in 1591, Jerusalem Delivree, an epic poem which is characterized as highly imaginative, treats of the First Crusade & the efforts to wrest Jerusalem from Muslim control at the hands of the Latin Church.

[Baltimore, Maryland]: Steam Press of James Young, "adopted by the Grand Lodge of Maryland, I.O.O.F., April 1880." First edition. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"), 16 pages plus covers. Original printed & decorated paper wraps, sewn. Not found in OCLC as of 7/2/2023.
Slightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine.
A great I.O.O.F. memento in unusually nice condition:
"The object of the Association shall be to give financial aid and assistance to the widows, orphans, heirs or assignees of deceased members." 
~Excerpted from the first page.

New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1883. Octavo (8" x 5.75"), xii & 601 pages, illustrated (facsimiles, plates, portraits, maps}. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth.
Ex-library with occasional rubber-stamped marks of the Sunday School Library of Providence, Rhode Island's Central Baptist Church. Gilt dull, brief edge wear, lightly soiled, sporadic foxing & toning, otherwise good.
Adoniram Judson (1788 - 1850) was one of the first Protestent missionariies to Burma where he served for almost forty years. Among other accomplishments, he translated the Bible into Burmese. Author Edward Judson, the subject's son & biographer, also a clergyman, was not born until 1844 & could not have known much of his father on a personal level.

New York: The Century Company, 1912. Reprint, originally published 1911. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xi & 397 pages, with frontis portrait & numerous plates hors texte. Publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt, the others uncut.
Spine gilt dull, binding lightly soiled & briefly rubbed mostly at the spine extremities & corners, text block cracking in a couple of places (still secure), internal browning, previous owner's name & date in ink at the ffep, a good or better copy.
Contents include: Boyhood and youth; Life as a monk; Visit to Rome; Preacher, professor, & district-vicar; The awakening reformer; The attack on indulgences; The gathering storm; The beginning of the conflict with Rome; The Leipsic debate; The developing controversialist; The national reformer; The prophet of a new faith; The final break with Rome; The Diet of Worms; At the Wartburg; The conflict with radicalism; The peasants' war; The break with humanism; Marriage; Home life; The formation of a new church;… Leer más

 San Jose, Costa Rica: Imprenta Lehmann (Sauter & Co.), 1917. San Jose, Costa Rica: Imprenta Lehmann (Sauter & Co), 1917 First edition Octavo (925 x 625), vii & 65 pages Publisher's pale ping printed paper wraps Text in Spanish "Printed in Costa Rica" rubber-stamped on the title pageWraps moderately browned & soiled, light edge wear, brief foxing, otherwise very good The author was a member of the Theosophical Society of Costa Rica Includes chapters on time, space, & matter

New York: Carleton, Publisher; London: S. Low, Son & Co., MDCCCLXIX (1869). First edition, this copy with presentation in ink by the author at the ffep: "A M[onsieur] Chabot/ avec les compliments/ de M'elle Kraft."
12mo, viii, [9] - 316 & 8 (ie 6) pages of publisher's ads plus 5 mounted albumen photographs. Publisher's rust/ brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Not found in The Truthful Lens.
Recently rebacked preserving original spine, long tear at the ffep now repaired on the verso (presentation not affected), binding moderately rubbed & soiled, scattered foxing, a very good copy.
Ms. Kraft departed Paris on December 1, 1868 in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Ferris (her sister and brother in law) and traveling companion J.S. Rogers. The group arriived in Egypt on December 11. As she notes in her prologue,"In presenting this little work for the perusal of my friends, I beg to remind them that I have, as nearly as was consistent, adhered to the original design of giving a "diary"… Leer más

Wheaton, Illinois: Church League of America, 1965. Original illustrated broadside, folio (14" x 6.5"), single sheet printed recto only. Text in three columns.
Folded once horizontally, moderate edge wear, some creasing, tiny hole affecting a letter in Shackelford's name, lightly foxed & soiled, otherwise Good or better.
Reprints an article originally published in the Chicago Tribune on October 17, 1965. The Tribune, of course, was completely in favor of the Vietnam War & the article, while intended to stir up outrage, helpfully provides several methods of obtaining that coveted 4F draft status: "Play Homosexual," "Be an Epileptic," Bed-Wetting," etc. Rufus E. Shackelford, perhaps the largest tomato farmer in the United States, was on the Board of Directors of the Church League of America & was candidate for vice president in 1976 as the running mate of Thomas J. Anderson, a John Bircher. The ticket received a grand total of 158,724 votes.

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929. First edition. 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 30 & [2] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good.
Book v in a series of "approved sex booklets" for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss who also marketed "Hygienique." Provides rather explicit instructions which do not neglect the pleasure of sex, includes a description of the rhythm method, & advocates the practice of eugenics:
"To bring children into the World is to share with God in the supreme function of creation of the race ... Science has demonstrated that the production of idiots, deformed, depraved and diseased offspring is the result of ignorance of parents of the great physiological facts surrounding the beginnings of a new life ..."

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.25"), 183 & [1] pages. Publisher's blue paper over boards backed in brick cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover. Top edge stained red. Lacking the dust jacket.
Slightly soiled & sunned, previous owner's name in ink at the first blank page, otherwise Near Fine.
Updike's second book & first novel. During the course of a prolific career he won two National Book Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, & numerous other accolades.

Orange, Virginia: Orange County Review, (1988). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"), viii & 233 pages, illustrated. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered & decorated in gilt.
Bruise at the top edge of the upper cover, brief wear at two corners, previous owner's name, address, & phone number in ink at the front pastedown, otherwise very good.
"Rhoadsville Baptist Church was organized November 11, 1888 by a small group of Christian believers in the Eastern Section of Orange County, Virginia. The saw a need for a Baptist church in their immediate neighborhood and proceeded to begin a movement which has continued for one hundred years ..." ~Excerpted from the Foreword.

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1927 (copyright). 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 15 & [1] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Internal toning, otherwise fine.
Book vi in a series of sex booklets for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss, who describes himself as "The Evangelist of Health."
"Our young women are too willing to be delicate and incapable of endurance. They dread above all things the glow and hue of health, the rotundity and beauty of muscularity, the comely shapes which the graet masters gave to the Venus de Medici and Venus de Milo. All these attributes are viewed as course and unladylike ..." ~Dr. Krauss, excerpted from the text.

[Genesse, New York ?]: no publisher, no date [1856] First edition. 8vo, single sheet folded to form 4 pages (1 blank).
Old horizontal folds, lightly foxed, two stab holes along the vertical fold, Very Good Regarding the upcoming election of 1856, Rev. Steele describes a meeting he had with John C Fremont, the first presidential candidate of the newly formed Republican Party. Colonel Fremont affirms his religion as Protestant & describes the suggestion that he might actually be a Catholic "is a device of the enemy, gotten up without any foundation or truth, merely for political effect." OCLC locates 5 copies.

New York: Macmillan, 1915. First edition, this copy inscribed to "kinsman" Luther M. Strayer, signed, & dated in ink by the author at the ffep. Small octavo (7.75 x 5.5"), xii, [2], 309 & [7, advertisements] pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered brown cloth.
Binding rubbed & spotted from biopredation (mostly affecting the lower cover), lightly internally toned otherwise good & still quite useful.
The author was pastor of the 3d Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York, director of the Rochester Orphans' Home, and founder of the People's Sunday Evening Meetings which were conducted in theatres.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, Dissertation Services (microfilm of typescript), 1981. Octavo (8.25" x 6.5"), 22 erratically paginated preliminary leaves including errata & 296 pages, all printed recto only. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth.
Cloth lightly spotted, otherwise very good.
"The Old Orthodox, those who remained faithful to the Orthodox Church as it was before the changes of the mid-seventeenth century, are the religious minority that played a noticeable role in the economy of Russia ... This study will investigate the origins and the form of this entrepreneurial activity among the Old Orthodox families of Moscow." ~Excerpted from the preface.