Theology from Butler Rare Books

[with] A Sermon preached at Broad oak, June 4, 1707 on occasion of the Death of Mrs Katharine Henry, relict of Mr Philip Henry….by Her Son The Rev. Matthew Henry. Xlviii, 488pp pagination continuous. 225mm x 145mm Recent brown half-calf, raised bands, gilt lines and label. Label of Period Bookbinders, Salisbury. Engraved frontispiece of Philip Henry faces first title and another engraved frontispiece of… Read more about this item

Text continuous despite pagination. In very good condition, with some minor fraying to inner gutter at the base of the index pages at rear. Later C19th? Half calf, marbled boards, straight spine with gilt lines. Edward Polhill (1622-1694) was an English Puritan writer and theologian from Suffolk. He studied at Cambridge University and became a minister in the Church of England, but… Read more about this item

A rather ordinary quarter bound cloth covered boards with leather spine, split and rubbed. Sunday School Library label to front pastedown. There were only two editions published before 1800, both very scarce. This edition only at 3 UK locations and 1 US.

The Lord's Prayer in Chinese with literal translation and the pronunciation of each character, Printed in Metallic Moveable Types. London, William Mavor Watts Oriental Type Founder and Printer, Crown Court, Temple Bar. C. 1850. William Mavor Watts (1797/98 - 1874) was an English printer, based in London, who specialised in non-Roman fonts and Bible printing. Watts took over the printing… Read more about this item

Quarto, 19cm x 15cm Collates complete [8], 352pp. New endpapers. The first few quires are rather dusty and marked, but the margins are good. There are marks, especially margainal, throughout the text. Extremities of the pages are sometimes folded or rubbed, not affecting text. New full leather with blind stamped boards and a slightly sunned spine, over raised bands,… Read more about this item

Original cloth bound, with gold lettering to front cover and spine. Photo portrait of Walker facing title page. 458pp. A very good, clean and solid copy. Some minor rubbing to extremities of cover

Original green cloth with gold lettering and design to front cover and spine. Some old and inert marks to front cover. 50 photogravure photographs with tissue guards. 340pp. Text block is solid, text pages are clean and internally better than very good

8vo. 18cm x 12cm. With a 23pp Foreword by Richard Baxter. Collates complete as per ESTC [64],215,[1],48,47-252,[2]pp Text pages are really very good, crisp and well-margined. Minimal minor marks. Lovely original C17th boards sympathetically rebacked over raised bands with red label. Jacomb was a moderate Puritan who was installed as a D.D. in Cambridge at… Read more about this item

8vo. 17cm x 11cm. Title is A1, within rules, ink ownership Diodat Hoare his Book 1735. Collates complete as per ESTC [8],384,369-461,[11]pp. Text is very good, crisp and good margins throughout. Half leather (Victorian?), marbled boards, gilt lines to spine. Polhill was a non-conforming Puritan who held to a hypothetical universal redemption position. John Owen… Read more about this item

Quarto. 20cm x 15cm. Collates complete but with a slightly strange hiatus in pagination [20],376,387-598,592-766,777-864,711-950pp with 4 leaves of very unusual Victorian typeset facsimile presented 861/64 within rules (we have never seen this previously). A corner repair to one leaf which touches a couple of words. A very crisp and clean copy with red edges. Rebound in tan half leather… Read more about this item

[London] : Printed by W. Iaggard, 1611., 1611. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small folio. 29cm x 19cm. Title page within engraved decorative border, trimmed at foredge. [22], 172,177--577,[1]pp. Lacks Q3,4. Contemporary full calf with some loss at foot of spine, rubbed, raised bands, label. Notwithstanding the loss of 2 leaves, this work is very uncommon in commerce with… Read more about this item

Folio. 32cm x 21cm. Portrait facing general title page; lacks ffep. Separate title pages to each work. Folding table present in Leviticus with some loss. Final page is somewhat creased and final blank is missing. Full contemporary leather over raised bands. A very good copy with good margins, minimal marks and a solid binding

Second edition, 18cm x 11.5cm Half-leather. 283, [5]pp. Text is in very good condition, some marks. Life of renowned missionary, David Brainerd and Journal of Jonathan Edwards

54mm x 45mm. Printed on India paper. Portrait of Bunyan facing title page. 418pp Line illustrations throughout text. Small ink stain at outer bottom margin of the last few pages.Leather binding, gilt edges. A very good copy

12mo. 14cm x 9cm. 7th edition. 1833. Portrait frontis of John Kent, tissue guarded facing title page. 335pp contemp pencil notes. Original black leather boards rebacked in style with new label and lettering. The only holding of this edition is in the British Library. Kent was a Calvinist hymn writer from Devon, England, born in 1766.

19cm x 13cm. Original Victorian gilt cloth. Old Sunday School label to ffep. 338pp, + 22pp of publisher's adverts. A very good copy of a scarce original Spurgeon title.

Felix Kyngston, 1613. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The sacred doctrine of diuinitie, gathered out of the word of God, and comprehended in two volumes whereof this first volume, containeth a description of all that holy doctrine according to the rules of art: with a treatise concerning the olde Testament, or the promise. The second is to containe a larger… Read more about this item

London: printed for John williams at the Crown in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1655, 1655. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. 15cm x 10cm. [20], 3-203, [1]pp. Some minor worm to lower part of the intro disappearing at the start of the text main. Some other small holes in the lower part of about 20pp otherwise very good. A contemporary… Read more about this item

London: printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Upper Moorfields; and sold at the New Chapel, City-road, and at the Rev Mr Wesley's preaching houses in town and country, 1786. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 7"x4.5". 12mo. 227, [1]pp Pages are in very good condition. 2 sections protrude slightly on the rebind which has been undertaken sympathetically retaining the… Read more about this item

Printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, 1651. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Reissue of the 1651 edition. Additional engr. pictorial title by R. Vaughan dated 1652. [10], 440, [20], 441-599 (recte 596)pp. 43 portraits vignettes of Protestant divines and theologians in the text. Lacks the portrait of Fuller. 4to old calf old marginal paper strengthening to red and black… Read more about this item