Alden, Timothy

An Account of the Several Religious Societies in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, from Their First Establishment, and of the Ministers of Each, to the First of January, 1805

Boston, Printed by Munroe, Francis, & Parker, 1808. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5; pp. [7], 6-40; 1/4 brown cloth and marbled boards; a few chips to cloth at tips of spine; rubbed spots to corners and fore-edge of boards; a small name stamp to front board verso and a small signature to half-title page; occasional spots of foxing; very good- condition. Timothy Alden (1771 - 1839) was a clergyman, professor, librarian, and the founding President of Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. He also served as regional counselor for the American Antiquarian Society and founded more than 70 Sunday Schools in the region. His current book presented a synopsis of the various religious societies in the Portsmouth area in the 18th- and the beginning of the 19th centuries. Very good .

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Book number: 002367

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Alleine, Joseph

An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners in a Serious Treatise on Conversion

New York, American Tract Society; D. Fanshow, Printer, 1830. Early-19th-century edition, n. d. (1830s - date obtained from publisher's address and employment period of the rinter with the society); 6 x 3 3/4; pp. [7], 6-164; publisher's brown, embossed-cloth binding; gilt title to spine; small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; faint foxing and discoloration mostly to first and last few leaves; overall in very good condition. Joseph Alleine (1634 - 1668) was a British Nonconformist pastor and a prolific author of religious works. "An Alarm to Unconverted.." also known as "The Sure Guide to Heaven," would become one of his most popular writings - contrasting the lives of the true believers with those of the ones not having the faith and pleading with the unconverted to accept Christ. According to the publisher, in this particular edition "..some obsolete words and phrases are altered, and a few passages omitted. - The author's Six Questions to the Unconverted, and Counsels for the Converted are added. Very good .

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Book number: 003441

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Anonymous

Confession, Etc. Articles of Faith, Unanimously Adopted by the Presbytery of Buffalo, and Recommended to the Churches Under Their Care, Nov. 10th, 1831

S. l. s. n. 1831. First Edition. First edition (alternate title from front wrap: "Confession of Faith"); 8 x 5 1/4; pp. [1], 4-8; self wraps, printed and ruled in black and tied with a string; scattered foxing; nicks and creases to edges; a few small, period, manuscript scribbles to last page; in about good condition. An unrecorded pamphlet, it outlined the form of admission and the covenant proposed and adopted by the Presbytery of Buffalo, New York in the early-19th century. It also included a short list of "Queries for Professors. Good .

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Book number: 004041

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Anonymous

The Constitution and by-Laws of Rutland and Bennington Conference of Congregational Churches, 1859

Rutland, Geo. A. Tuttle and Co.'s Steam Presses, 1859. First Edition. First edition; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4; pp. [2], 5-15; blue wraps, tied with a string and printed and ruled in black; a few minor spots and a very-faint trace of a signature to front wrap; in very good or better condition. Chapters on articles of faith, government of a church, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 003885

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Anonymous

Molitvoslov S Kanonami I Akafistami S Prilozhenim Pravila Ko Sv. Prichashcheniiu. Vosproizvedenie Izdaniia Kazansko - Bogoroditskago Muzhskogo Monastyria V Harbin S Dopolneniiami

Shanhai, Tipografii Nikita - Do-Shin Press, 1949. First edition presumed; 5 x 3 1/2; pp. I-V, [2], 4-286, [1]; original wraps appear to have been replaced by plain brown paper; chips to corners of first and last leaves and mild spotting; in fair to good condition. An unusual, apparently unrecorded in OCLC prayer book with Acathist Hymns, it was published for the Russian emigre community in Shanghai. Good .

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Book number: 003877

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Anonymous

A Pair of 19th-Century, Religious Chromolithographs (the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Lord Is My Shepherd)

S. l. s. n. 1890. Two broadsides, n. d. (second half of the 19th century); rolled, 15 3/4 x 12, when flattened; heavily-gilded chromolithographs; both with a few closed nicks to top and bottom edges; a few minor spots of foxing to versos; in very good condition. A beautiful pair of broadsides, the first one - entirely covered in gilt - just read: "The Lord is My Shepherd," nestled within trailing roses. The second, more elaborate one, consisted of the Lord's Prayer in the center, surrounded by beautiful, individual, vignette illustrations with a commandment below each one. Very good .

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Book number: 003953

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Beecher, Henry Ward

Aids to Prayer

New York, Anson D. F. Randolph, 1866. Second edition; 5 1/4 x 3 3/4; pp. [9], 8-179, [3]; pebbled, purplish cloth over boards, printed and decorated in gilt; illustrated with ornamental vignettes at the beggining of each chapter; a few small chips to tips of spine and a bit of wear to corners of boards; in about very good condition. Written by Congregationalist, clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) - was a discourse on various aspects of Christian prayers, with each chapter beginning with quotes from Scripture. Very good .

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Book number: 003333

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Bledsoe, Rev. James Wiley

Manuscript Sermons

S. l. (Charlottesville, VA), By the author, 1897. Notebook, n. d. (1897); 8 x 6 1/4; pp. 1-86 (numbered in pencil); marbled paper over boards and 1/4 cloth (rebacked); manuscript text in brown ink; wear along edges of boards; mild, uniform age-toning to pages; overall in very good condition. Also included is a Registered Mail Receipt, dated June 17, 1897, from Rev. Bledsoe in Charlottesville to James B. Elam of J. B. Elam & Co. in Richmond. Rev. James Wiley Bledsoe (1841 - 1928) was an eloquent, influential, and prominent pastor of the Virginia Conference Methodist Church, whose sermons garnered devoted followers from Charlottesville to Danville and from Amherst to Norfolk. Educated at Humanity Hall Academy and at Emory and Henry College, he would take an active part in raising the Fluvanna Artillery during the Civil War, in which he served as a Second Officer. The sermons, appearing as series under the title "The Publican" - signed, titled, meticulously laid-out, and with an index added (at the end) - were presumably mailed by Rev. Bledsoe to James B. Elam, owner of a succesful real estate and auction business in Richmond. Very good .

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Book number: 003312

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Bollhagen, Dr. Laurent. David

[Early Dust Jacket and Slipcase] Heiliges Lippen- Und Herzens-Opfer Einer Glaubigen Seele Oder Vollstandiges Gesang-Buch Enthalt in Sich Die Neuesten Und Alten Lieder Des Seligen Dr. Luther Und Anderer Erleuchteten Lehrer Unserer Zeit ; Zur Beforderung Der Gottseligkeit, Bei Offentlichem Gottesdienst in Pommern Und Anderen Orten Zu Gebrauchen, Eingerichtet, Auch Mit Bekannten Melodien Versehen ; Nebst Einem Geistreichen Gebet-Buch

Alt-Stettin, F. Hessenland, 1873. Later 19th-century edition; 6 3/4 x 4 1/4; pp. [9], 2-704, [1], 2-4, [18]; dark-brown, embossed cloth over boards with gilt decorations and initials; dust jacket of plain, pebbled black paper; slipcase of card stock and paper (the latter identical to DJ); title page in Fraktur, in red and black; illustrated with an engraved frontis and vignettes at beggining and end of book; all edges gilt; small, period inscription to first blank leaf; a bit of wear along edges - in very good condition. Jacket with several chips to edges and back flap - in good to very good condition. Slipcase with wear to corners and edges and some loss to bottom panel - overall in good condition. Laurentius David Bollhagen (1683 - 1738) was a Protestant theologian and Pomeranian General Superintendent. His current hymnal contained "new songs from Dr. Martin Luther" and other Christian hymns. The DJ was probably one of the last examples of plain German jackets, as German publishers in the late 1800s, unlike their British counterparts, would begin employing cartoonists and artists to decorate their paper covers. Very good .

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Book number: 002980

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Calvert, Tho.

Heart-Salve for a Wounded Soul... Or Meditations of Comfort for the Holy Living, and Happy Dying Christian; Either in the Depths of Dark Desertion, or in the Height of Heaven's Glorious Union. The Second Edition, with an Addition of an Elegy Upon an Eminent Occasion" Together with "Eye-Salve for the Blind World: Or, an Excitation to the Secure World, to See and Fear the Judgements of God Are a Coming Upon It, When God Frequently Calls His Rare Saints by Death to Go out of It

London, Printed by Fr. Leech for Th. Passenger, at the Signe of the Three Bibles Upon London-Bridge, 1675. Second edition; lacking one of two separate title pages, else complete (title from ESTC catalog record); 5 1/2 x 3; continuous pagination - pp. [26], 1-160, [9]; rebound in pebbled, purple cloth and 1/4 polished calf; red morocco label with gilt title and four raised bands to spine; illustrated with woodcut borders at beginning of chapters; leather scrathced, with a few small nicks and cuts to tips; smudges and spots to first and last few leaves, else text clean; several period annotations, including a previous owner's note: "Robert Rawlings, his book, 1722, On Board His Maj. Ship Ipswich;" overall in very good condition. Thomas Calvert (1606 - 1679) was a Noncomformist divine, serving as Vicar of Trinity Church in the King's Court at York, before being banished by the Five Mile Act. Among his works were the current two meditations - sermons on Psalm 143:7 and Isaiah 57:1. (ESTC R230932). Very good .

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Book number: 003372

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(Campbell, Jon)

The Danger of Delay

New York, Published by the American Tract Society, and sold at their depository, no. 144 Nassau-Street, near the city-hall, New-York; and by agents of the Society, its branches, and auxiliaries, in the principal cities and towns in the United States, 1830. Early edition, n. d. (between 1827 and 1832 - American Tract Society was located at 144 Nassau St. during this period); 6 3/4 x 4 1/4; pp. [1], 2-12 (also numbered 210-220); green wraps, tied with a string and decorated with a woodcut; creasing to lower margin and a few minor spots to wraps; in about very good condition. A cautionary tale, it was attributed to Scottish missionary and traveller Rev. John Campbell (1766 - 1840) in "Sketch of the origin and character of the principal series of tracts of the American Tract Society" American tract magazine (Nov. 1831). According to the American Antiquarian Society, the woodcut was created by Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775 - 1870) - physician, illustrator, and one of the earliest American wood engravers. Very good .

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Book number: 004146

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Clark, Joseph

Evidences of the Christian Religion, Designed Chiefly for the Rising Generation

Philadelphia, Printed for the Compilers, by Kimber, Conrad, and Co. 1806. First Edition. First edition; 7 x 4; pp. [7], 2-118, [2]; marbled paper over boards and 1/4 calf; two period signatures of previous owners; leather cracking, with some loss to tips of spine; paper on boards with scuffing and loss; scattered foxing; in fair to good condition. Joseph Clark (1751 - 1813) graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) with a degree in theology and a licence to preach. He also served in the Hunterdon County Militia of the Second New Jersey Regiment during the Revolution. He would later serve as the director of the Princeton Theological Seminary. His current collection of tracts, "evidences in support of religion," was aimed mostly at children and adolescents and, in his own words, more specifically "those, who are situated in the wilderness, and remote parts of the continent," where he often travelled to distribute it. Good .

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Book number: 003079

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Dore, Gustave

The Sermon on the Mount

New York, Vistus Balch, 1869. Engraved broadside; sheet 24 x 19, plate 20 1/2 x 16; small, scattered spots of foxing to margins; a few mild creases to edges; overall in very good condition. A magnificent depiction of Jesus preaching on the mount, an event recorded in Matthew 5-7, it was created by Gustave Dore (1832 - 1883) and engraved by prominent Utica and New York engraver Vistus Balch (1799 - 1884). Very good .

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Book number: 003276

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Emerson, Joseph

The Evangelical Primer Containing a Minor Doctrinal Catechism and a Minor Historical Catechism; to Which Is Added the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism; with Short Explanatory Notes and Copious Scripture Proof and Illustration; and an Appendix, Containing Various Directions for Studying the Scriptures. For the Use of Families and Schools

Boston, Published by Crocker and Brewster, 1844. Softcover. Early edition; 6 x 3 1/4; pp. [3], 6-72; turquoise wraps, printed and ruled in black; closed cut to tail of spine and a small chip to head; faint discoloration to back wrap and last few leaves; small signature of previous owner to title page; illustrated with 72 wood engravings of biblical scenes; in good to very good condition. Joseph Emerson (1777-1833) was an American Congregationalist pastor. Though he wrote several books, his "Evangelical Primer" was his most ambitious and popular work. Interestingly enough, it was speculated that the postage-stamp-size woodcuts were deliberately created to be intricately and beautifully executed, so as to be appealing but small enough, so as not to distract the attention from the primary purpose of the book. Ill.: 0. Good .

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Griffin, Edward D.

A Sermon Preached Jan. 10, 1810, at the Dedication of the Church in Park Street, Boston

Boston, Printed and Published by Lincoln and Edmands, 1810. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [3], 6-34; self-wraps, printed in black and tied with a string; scattered spots of foxing; period signature in brown ink to upper margin of front wrap; small loss of paper to upper corner; in good to very good condition. Edward Dorr Griffin (1770 - 1837) was an educator, minister, President of Williams College, and the firstpastor of Park Street Church. The Evangelical congregational megachurch, also a stop on Boston's Freedom Trail, was founded in 1804, its cornerstone was laid in 1809, and construction was completed by the beginning of 1810. The church would be the tallest building in the United States from 1810 until 1828 and the first landmark visible to travellers approaching Boston. Good .

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Book number: 003457

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