The Life of Erasmus de Jortin, John ) - 1758

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London: Printed for J. Whiston & B. White, 1758. Hardcover. Good. vi + 630 pages + corrigenda + one page of adverts. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. high. Full calf binding (looks like it was rebound circa 1810) gilt lettering & decoration on spine, 5 raised bands. Condition of the book is GOOD; Leather cracked at front joint of spine but strings are still holding, rear hinge very good, 2 bookplates on front paste-down, a small one of David B. Ogden, & a larger one of H. Holland Edwards, Pennant Ereithlyn, North Wales, frontis is in excellent condition, text is very clean. Contents page lists also Book II, Remarks upon the Works of Erasmus, & Book III, Appendix, containing Extracts from Erasmus, and from other Writers, but this volume is only Book I, The Life of Erasmus. RGRR

London: J. Whiston and B. White, 1758-1760. 1st Edition . Good. 8.5 x 10.25 inches (21.5 x 25 cm). Complete two volume set. Full calf leather bindings. Spines with five raised bands, red morocco title label and black morocco volume label. Double gilt fillet border to boards. Rubbing and scarring to boards. Heavy wear to corners of boards. Wear to ends of spines. Joints cracked but holding with cords, front board of Volume II is loose. Volume I with portrait frontis (after Holbein) and two plates of handwriting specimens. Volume II with five plates, mostly handwriting specimens. Bookplate to both front pastedown endpapers (Alford Book Club). Light foxing and marking to endpapers, clean text throughout. ESTC: T146995. Overall condition is Good. Please Note: This is a very heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate - a postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Please contact us for an accurate postage cost for your location. Size: 8.5 x 10.25… Leer más

London: J. Whiston and B. White, 1758. First edition. Vertical crease in frontispiece, light city library stamp on verso of title, very minor occasional foxing spots, binding quite strong. A very respectable copy. First edition. Quarto. vi, (ii), 630p, (ii, errata, ad). Portrait frontispiece after Holbein, 2 plates of facsimiles in various hands, including a specimen in Erasmus' handwriting. Lowndes III: 1235. A second volume appeared later devoted to Erasmus' works and writings about him.

London: J. Whiston and B. White, 1760. First edition. Cracking to joints, but holding well, contents clean. First edition. Two volumes. Quarto. vi, (ii), 630p, (ii, errata, ad); (iv), 753p (i). Titles in red and black. Portrait frontispiece after Holbein, six plates of facsimiles in various hands, including a specimen in Erasmus' hand and of Budaeus, Durer and others. Bound in contemporary speckled calf with marbled endpapers and rebacked to style with red titles labels, the panels densely gilt. With two bookplates, one of Hon. Sir George Howard L.L.D.(1718-1706), Field Marshall and politician, and subsequently Governor of Minorca. Lowndes III: 1235, NCBEL 2:1748.

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This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "In this book I have gathered together a number of lectures, sermons and addresses given during the thirteen and a half years in which I was Archbishop of York, and during my opening months as Archbishop of Canterbury...." - Preface from Convictions

This book is in good condition. There is significant wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover. The corners are worn. The previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front cover. The pages are tanned but clear of any marking."Why a new edition of the documents of Vatican II? For eighteen years I have been involved in the translation and publication of official Church documents, including those of Vatican II and its aftermath, and I have long felt that there is need for a volume containing not only the sixteen Council documents, but also as useful a selection as possible of the relevant subsequent official documents, those which dot the i's and cross the t's, as it were, of the sixteen...." - Introduction from Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents

Nicolas -Hays Inc, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Schaup, Susanne : Sophia: Aspects of the Divine Feminine Past & Present. York Beach (ME) : Nicolas -Hays Inc, 1997. First edition. Translated from the German by the author. Size is demy octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color wrappers glued to text block, reprod of Andy Warhol's detail take on Botticelli's Venus to front. xxvi pp prelim material, 235 numbered pp, three unnumbered following. Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: Not ex library. No notes or highlighting. Pages clean and binding tight/not creased. Light wear to cover. An wide-ranging study of the ancient notion of sophia - no mention of Hagia Sophia, but you will find George MacDonald, Pachamama, and Jakob Boehme. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with pencil marking to front fly, light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends, mild soiling to front cover else still bright, intact and whole. JEX 1/21

Binding is square, tight and clean save for a stray mark on reverse. Red top stain. Internals clean except for faint marginal spotting/staining on pp.136-37. Old Weiser booklabel on front pastedown. Unclipped wrapper has minor wrinkling/ small creases (it is a very thin gold foil paper jacket) plus some edgewear; else Fine. Fifty-seven illustrations on b/w plates interspersed throughout text; again, as mentioned elsewhere on this space; images perhaps those not commonly seen re-printed ad nauseum.
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First Edition Thus; this volume re-issues two of Steiner's works: The Way of Initiation and Initiation and Its Results. Some shelfwear and soiling to edges, but the binding is generally clean & straight; internals are also in good order.
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This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Leer más

Paraclete Press. Hardcover. 1557256349 Excellent, unmarked copy Paraclete Press. New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp pages w/no markings! You will be pleased. Excellent book

London: Everett & Co, 1908. Paperback in good condition; Head and foot of spine very worn.. 240 pages.