Christianity from John Price Antiquarian Books

Cambridge: Printed by E. D. for Roger Daniel, Printed to the University, 1646. Small 8vo, 149 x 90 mms., pp. [xxii], 437 [438 blank, 439 -454 index and errata], later calf, recently rebacked, with raised bands on spine and red morocco label. the recto of the dedication leaf , "Mr. Geroge Herbert to N. F. the Trnslatour… Read more about this item

Birmingham, Printed for the Author, by Pearson and Rollason..., 1787. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 212 x 129 mms., pp. xvi, 464 [465 - 468 adverts], recent full plum calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; some foxing of text. Inscribed on title-page, "The Author to / Bellas & Latitia / 1801", apparently in the hand… Read more about this item

At Oxford, Printed by Joseph Garnes, & are to be sold in Pauls Churchard at the signed of the Tygres head. 1587. 8vo, 156 x 103 mms., pp. [xvi], 1047 [1048 blank, 1049 - 1056 index], woodcut border on title-page, historiated initials, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1788 on top margin of dedicated page (closely shaved with loss of several… Read more about this item

London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington..., 1797. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 203 x 125 mms., pp. [iii] iv - xvi, 508, with two preliminary leaves, a-a2, pp. xix - xx and [xvii] - xviii misbound between pages 498 and 499 and [xxiii] - xxiv, and xxi -xxii misbound between pages 502 and 503, but complete, contemporary… Read more about this item

Bonoiae, Apud Alexandrum Benatium. Facultate a Suepeioribus concessa. 1590. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 295 x 208 mms., pp [xviii], [660], 330 numbered leaves, engraved title-page, with engraved vignette, printed in double columns, woodcut vignettes at start of each book, contemporary annotation on lower margin of title-page contemporary sheepskin, a monastery binding, with ownership stamps on title-page, and… Read more about this item

London: Printed for William Rogers..., 1798. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, 208 x 154 mms., pp. [xxiv], 388, contemporary panelled calf; upper rear joint slightly cracked, spine a bit dried, but a very good copy. The emergence of Socianism as an element in the history of Christian theology can be dated to the Anabaptist movement… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Printed by Murray & Cochrane, 1790. 8vo (in 4s), pp. viii, 139 [140 blank], uncut, original boards, paper label on spine; front joint worn, spine a little worn, binding soiled. Tertulian (c. 160 - c. 225) appears to have written this in 212 to persuade Scapula that Christians should not be persecuted, as they are… Read more about this item

Evesham: Printed for the Author by J. Agg: Sold by Bulgin and Shephard..., Bristol..., 1799. 12mo (in 6s), 172 x 95 mms., pp. xviii, 19 - 339 [340 Contents], contemporary tree calf, gilt spine black leather label; binding a little rubbed but a very good to fine copy. Thomas Tregenna Biddulph (1763 - 1838) wrote… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Charles Bathurst…, 1777. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [vi], 274, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments to a floral motif, red leather label; spine a little rubbed, but a very good copy. Maclaine (1722 - 1804) was born in Ireland and studied with Francis Hutcheson and William Leechman at the University… Read more about this item

London: Printed for John Whiston..., 1747. 8vo, pp. x [xi Contents, xii Errata and Addenda], 268 [269 - 272 adverts], contemporary calf; covers detached, spine and corners worn. Jortin (1698–1770) published an early form of this work as Four Sermons in 1720, and this longer book first appeared in 1746; there were at least four… Read more about this item

Leith: W. S. Sutherland..., John Johnstone, Edinburgh, 1843. Large 12mo (in 6s), pp. 12, [3] - 69 [70 postscript], disbound.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon...For T. and J. Merrill...[et al], 1777. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], 304, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red leather label (chipped); lacks blank prelims, corner cut from title-page and succeeding leaf, front joint cracked, binding scratched and worn. This above work was written in a month, and Gibbon in his… Read more about this item

London: Printed and sold by J. Phillips..., 1779. 8vo, pp. viii, 289 [290 adverts], contemporary sheepskin; front joint wormed and holding by one cord, top and base of spine chipped. With the ownership notation "Henry Owen's Bot. at London in 1811" in pencil and ink on the front paste-down end-paper and copious marginal notes in pencil in… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Printed by J. Burnes...and sold by J. Deighton, and J. Nicholson..., 1800. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 46, disbound; lacks half-title. Thomas Truebody Thomason (1727 - 1816) had earlier published An essay tending to prove that the Holy Scriptures, rightly understood, do not give encouragement to enthusiasm or superstition in 1795, and his arguments… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Messrs. Cadell and Davies..., 1797. 12mo, pp. 250, contemporary tree calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments to a bird motif, red morocco label; slight wear to top and base of joints, but an attractive copy, with the contemporary armorial bookplate of (probably) Thomas Mills, the Bristol bookseller on the front paste-down end-paper.. … Read more about this item

London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington..., 1774. 12mo, pp. xxxiii [xxxiv - xxxvi blank], 341 [342 blank, 343 - 347 Table, 348 adverts], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin; front joint cracked and front cover holding on for dear life, spine defective. Editions of this work in 1774 include the "Thirty-Third" in New York; one with… Read more about this item